VAST
Data announced a strategic partnership with Hypertec Cloud to
increase domestic compute capacity across Canada and North America, enabling
organizations with highly scalable, efficient, performant and secure AI cloud
infrastructure.
In support of the Canadian Sovereign AI
Compute Strategy, VAST, together with
Hypertec Cloud, will provide Canadian innovators, businesses, researchers and
government agencies with access to the accelerated compute capacity they need
to pursue groundbreaking research and deliver made-in-Canada AI solutions, while
safeguarding Canadian data, ensuring sovereignty and promoting leadership in
the rapidly evolving global AI landscape.
"Canada has been at the forefront of AI innovation,"
said Pezhman Sharifi, Sales Director for Canada at VAST Data. "VAST is committed to helping Canadian businesses
continue to innovate and grow by leveraging the advantages of AI for
generations to come."
As data volumes from generative AI (GenAI) apps and tools
increase, data centers face critical demands for scalable and efficient
solutions to manage increasing AI training and inference workloads. Addressing
this challenge, the VAST Data Platform structures data to enable seamless management and access
across various cloud environments and is integral to enhancing Hypertec Cloud
infrastructure for AI deployment scalability and performance.
"Our partnership with VAST Data is transforming how
AI infrastructures are designed and deployed," said Jonathan Ahdoot, President of Hypertec Cloud. "As demonstrated with our first successful major AI
deployment of over 1,000 GPUs in the U.S., completed in just a few weeks, VAST
was pivotal in ensuring efficient data management and boosting AI performance
to help Hypertec Cloud meet a tight deployment timeline. Together we're
addressing the most pressing challenges in AI scalability and performance with
an eye toward driving innovation and sustainability at every level."
Hypertec Cloud recently announced a major expansion that
will integrate VAST's data platform to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs
across North America by early 2025 in order to better meet
the accelerating demand for AI applications, while ensuring system reliability
and energy efficiency - marking a major milestone in the company's AI strategy.
VAST is a certified high-performance storage partner in the NVIDIA Partner Network that provides services to NVIDIA Cloud Partners, which makes the VAST Data Platform ideal for Hypertec
Cloud's massive deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing.
With VAST, Hypertec Cloud already delivers AI
infrastructure solutions and services with the scalability, efficiency, and
reliability to empower joint customers like Together AI and Zyphra to meet the increasing demands of a wide array
of AI training, inference and fine-tuning workloads.
Hypertec Cloud uses VAST's unified end-to-end platform to
simplify and optimize compute and storage systems for performance and
energy-efficiency, providing organizations with:
- Large-Scale, Reliable
AI Cloud Infrastructure: Hypertec Cloud offers
tailor-built, massive-capacity GPU clusters, paired with VAST's
exabyte-scale unstructured data storage to provide the speed, performance, security and
reliability required for enterprise, research or federal AI use cases.
- Access to Data
Anywhere, without Tradeoffs: VAST's global namespace delivers fast access to all of an organizations
data across on-premises, cloud or edge environments, allowing Hypertec
Cloud customers to seamlessly share and move their data across different
regions.
- Multimodal Database to
End Unstructured Data Era: Joint customers now
have access to a vector database with transactional
and analytical capabilities that lay the foundation for the semantic layer
of AI training and inference systems, and is able to build table stores
that support trillions of vectors, making it possible to index an entire enterprise.
- Simplified AI IaaS
Solutions: Easy to use
infrastructure designed and optimized for AI training, inference and
fine-tuning workloads regardless of size or complexity, with a containerized compute engine that will enrich and enable data-driven AI
pipelines. With the VAST Data InsightEngine with NVIDIA, organizations can further accelerate business
insights by making enterprise data instantly usable for AI-driven
decision-making. This enables faster economical, and highly efficient
deployments for VAST and Hypertec Cloud clients with tailored-built clusters
leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
"VAST Data was founded on the idea that tomorrow's AI and
deep learning applications would require a new class of data infrastructure -
and a new class of AI-ready clouds like Hypertec Cloud - that could handle the
world's most demanding AI workloads at scale," said Chris Morgan, Vice President, AI Solutions at VAST Data. "The VAST Data Platform, built on our DASE architecture, was developed from the ground up to address this need
- seamlessly unifying storage, database management and containerized
compute services in a single, scalable platform for cloud service providers and
enterprises alike."