VAST Data
announced that the
VAST Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance storage solution
for
NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners. This certification underscores
VAST's position as a leading data platform provider for AI cloud
infrastructure, and further strengthens VAST's collaboration with NVIDIA in
building out next-generation AI factories.
VAST provides a unified set of storage and data services that
empowers cloud service providers (CSPs) to offer a comprehensive catalog of
data-centric offerings that are deeply integrated with NVIDIA technologies.
Uniquely designed to meet the stringent requirements of large-scale AI cloud
infrastructure, the VAST Data Platform supports training and fine-tuning AI
models of all sizes and modes, ranging from multimodal and small language
models with less than ten billion parameters to the world's largest models
consisting of over one trillion parameters.
"This certification with NVIDIA builds on VAST's already
tremendous success with CSPs as the de facto AI data platform solution for
large-scale, cloud infrastructure," said John Mao, vice president, Technology
Alliances at VAST Data. "With the VAST Data Platform independently validated
and certified through the NVIDIA Partner Network, organizations can more
confidently and securely deploy their AI models at unprecedented scale across
thousands of GPUs.
With seamless scalability and industry-leading uptime, the VAST
Data Platform enables service providers with capabilities that span the
complete AI pipeline - from multi-protocol data ingest, accelerated data
preprocessing for feature engineering, and high-performance storage for model
training with fast checkpoints and restores to edge data management for model
serving and end-to-end cataloging to meet audit and compliance requirements.
The VAST Data Platform offers CSPs:
- Service
Provider-Grade Reliability: The VAST Data Platform
helps observed production systems realize 99.9999% availability.
- Secure
Multi-Tenancy: With a zero-trust framework, per tenant data
encryption, flexible network segmentation, and robust audit capabilities,
VAST enables CSPs to deliver secure cloud services at scale.
- Fine-Grained
Workload Isolation: With granular quality-of-service
policies that prevent multi-tenant I/O contention, the VAST Data Platform
helps CSPs ensure numerous customers have the performance and data access
they need for AI workloads from a single cluster.
- Infrastructure
Cost Savings: Service providers and enterprises alike can
consolidate storage silos with an affordable single all-flash solution and
eliminate the overhead of data copies and sprawl.
- Improved
Operational Efficiency: VAST offers robust APIs and
SDKs, and all Day 2 operations (such as upgrades) can be performed online,
leading to a better customer experience with fewer admins required.
The VAST Data Platform serves as the comprehensive software
infrastructure required to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and preserve data
through real-time deep data analysis and learning. This empowers AI clouds to
offer a diverse range of data services to their customers, further enhancing
their AI capabilities.