VAST Data achieves certification as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners.
VAST Data has announced that the VAST Data Platform has achieved certification as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners. This certification solidifies VAST’s standing as a top-tier data platform provider for AI cloud infrastructure and strengthens its partnership with NVIDIA in developing next-generation AI factories.
Simplifying AI Infrastructure Deployment at Scale
The VAST Data Platform is designed to simplify the deployment of AI infrastructure at scale and provide a trusted reference architecture for service providers. By offering a unified set of storage and data services, VAST empowers cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver a comprehensive catalog of data-centric offerings deeply integrated with NVIDIA technologies.
Meeting the Stringent Requirements of AI Cloud Infrastructure
Uniquely designed to meet the stringent requirements of large-scale AI cloud infrastructure, the VAST Data Platform supports the training and fine-tuning of AI models of all sizes and modes. These range from multimodal and small language models with fewer than ten billion parameters to the world’s largest models with over one trillion parameters.
John Mao, vice president of Technology Alliances at VAST Data, emphasized the significance of this certification: “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. 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.”
Seamless Scalability and Industry-Leading Uptime
The VAST Data Platform offers seamless scalability and industry-leading uptime, enabling service providers to span the complete AI pipeline. This includes multi-protocol data ingest, accelerated data preprocessing for feature engineering, high-performance storage for model training with fast checkpoints and restores, and edge data management for model serving. Additionally, it supports end-to-end cataloging to meet audit and compliance requirements.
Key Benefits of the VAST Data Platform for CSPs
- Service Provider-Grade Reliability: The VAST Data Platform helps production systems achieve 99.9999% availability, ensuring high reliability for service providers.
- 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: The VAST Data Platform features granular quality-of-service policies that prevent multi-tenant I/O contention, ensuring numerous customers have the performance and data access needed for AI workloads from a single cluster.
- Infrastructure Cost Savings: Service providers and enterprises can consolidate storage silos with an affordable single all-flash solution, eliminating the overhead of data copies and sprawl.
- Improved Operational Efficiency: VAST provides robust APIs and SDKs, allowing all Day 2 operations, such as upgrades, to be performed online. This leads to a better customer experience with fewer admins required.
Comprehensive Software Infrastructure for AI Clouds
The VAST Data Platform provides the software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and preserve data through real-time deep data analysis and learning. This capability empowers AI clouds to offer diverse data services to their customers, further enhancing their AI capabilities.
By integrating with NVIDIA technologies, the VAST Data Platform ensures that CSPs can deploy high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure, enabling them to meet the growing demands of AI development and deployment. This certification marks a significant step forward in VAST Data’s mission to provide cutting-edge storage solutions for the AI cloud ecosystem.
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