VAST Data and
Lambda announced a strategic partnership that will enable
the world's first hybrid cloud experience dedicated to AI and deep learning
workloads. Together, Lambda and VAST are building an
NVIDIA GPU-powered
accelerated computing platform for Generative AI across public and private
clouds.
Lambda has selected the VAST Data Platform, the data platform designed from the
ground up for the AI era, to power
Lambda's On-Demand GPU Cloud, providing customers with the
fastest and most optimised GPU deployments for Large Language Model (LLM)
training and inference workloads in the market. With the VAST Data Platform,
Lambda customers will also have access to the
VAST DataSpace, a
global namespace to store, retrieve and process data with high performance
across hybrid cloud deployments.
"Lambda is committed to partnering with the most innovative AI
infrastructure companies in the market to engineer the fastest, most efficient,
and most highly optimised GPU-based deep learning solutions available,"
said Mitesh Agrawal, Head of Cloud and COO at Lambda. "The VAST Data Platform
enables Lambda customers with private cloud deployments to burst swiftly into
Lambda's public cloud as workloads demand. Going forward, we plan to integrate
all of the features of VAST's Data Platform to help our customers get the most
value from their GPU cloud investments and from their data."
Lambda chose the VAST Data Platform for its balance of delivering:
● Simplified AI Infrastructure - The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD certification of the
VAST Data Platform allows Lambda to simplify data management and improve data
access across its private cloud clusters
● HPC Performance with Enterprise Simplicity - VAST's highly performant
architecture is built for AI workloads, allowing for faster training of LLMs,
and preventing bottlenecks in order to extract the maximum performance from
GPUs
● Data Insights & Management - The
VAST DataBase offers structured and unstructured data
analytics and insights that can be rolled out easily and scalably
● Data Security - VAST provides multiple security layers across the VAST Data
Platform including encryption, immutable snapshots and auditability, providing
customers with a zero-trust configuration for data in flight and at rest in a
multi-tenant cloud environment
● Flexible Scalability - The
VAST DataSpace simplifies multi-site and hybrid cloud
operations to allow customers to easily scale to hundreds of petabytes and
beyond as they grow
"Lambda and VAST are bound by a shared vision to deliver the most innovative,
performant and scalable infrastructure purpose-built from day one with AI and
Deep Learning in mind," said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data.
"We could not be happier to partner with a company like Lambda, who are at
the forefront of AI public and private cloud architecture. Together, we look
forward to providing organisations with cloud solutions and services that are
engineered for AI workloads, offering faster LLM training, more efficient data
management and enabling global collaboration to help customers solve some of
the world's most pressing problems."