VAST Data integrates InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX for real-time AI data processing, enabling seamless retrieval, inference, and scaling.
VAST Data announced the immediate availability of VAST InsightEngine, first integrated with NVIDIA DGX systems and expanding to include NVIDIA-Certified Systems from leading server providers. This combination provides enterprises with an industry-first turnkey solution to streamline real-time AI data processing, retrieval, and scalable inferencing—effectively removing complexity, eliminating latency issues, and accelerating AI adoption across enterprise infrastructures.
The VAST InsightEngine, powered by NVIDIA DGX, converges automated data ingestion, exabyte-scale vector search, event-driven orchestration, and GPU-optimized inferencing into one seamless, pre-integrated platform. By embedding the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, this combination equips enterprises with the means to generate high-quality, real-time insights from AI reasoning workloads rapidly.
Enterprises adopting AI can face significant data bottlenecks, deployment complexities, and latency challenges, hindering the effectiveness and scalability of AI models. VAST addresses these challenges by combining its VAST Data Platform with NVIDIA’s AI computing technologies, delivering a fully integrated, real-time AI stack capable of efficient data handling and exabyte-level scalability. This ensures data seamlessly flows from ingestion to GPU-powered inference without compromising performance or security.
John Mao, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at VAST Data, emphasized the strategic importance of this partnership: “Enterprises need AI solutions that are not just powerful, but also simple to deploy and operate. VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA streamlines enterprise AI adoption by providing a real-time, AI-native data platform that effortlessly scales while maintaining enterprise-grade security and cost efficiency.”
Partners Recognize Immediate Value and Impact
Joint partners, including Mark III Systems, have begun exploring how the integrated VAST InsightEngine and NVIDIA DGX solution can deliver tangible business benefits. Stan Wysocki, President at Mark III Systems, highlighted the significance of this advancement, noting that successful generative and agentic AI deployments will define industry leaders in the coming years.
Key Benefits of VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX include:
Turnkey, “It Just Works” AI Infrastructure: VAST InsightEngine, integrated and optimized with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software—including NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs)—provides enterprises with a streamlined path to rapid AI adoption. Organizations gain immediate value, bypassing traditional setup complexities, reducing infrastructure expenses, and quickly accessing AI-driven business insights.
Real-Time AI Data Processing and Semantic Intelligence: Utilizing NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints, Video Search and Summarization (VSS) Blueprints, and the NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning model via NIM microservices, VAST InsightEngine captures the semantic essence of data as it enters the system. This real-time ingestion ensures AI applications operate on current, contextually relevant datasets, dramatically reducing latency while increasing the accuracy and efficiency of insights.
Scalable, High-Performance Infrastructure: Built on VAST’s revolutionary Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture and the exabyte-scale VAST DataStore, InsightEngine scales effortlessly with increasing data volumes. Organizations can efficiently handle large-scale vector workloads, ensuring seamless performance regardless of dataset size or complexity.
High-Speed Data Access Powered by NVIDIA Networking: Leveraging NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and Spectrum-X networking, VAST InsightEngine offers uninterrupted, high-bandwidth data access optimized specifically for demanding real-time AI workloads. This capability ensures AI agents continuously operate with optimal network performance, maximizing the throughput of AI inferencing operations.
Unified, Enterprise-Grade Security: VAST InsightEngine secures AI pipelines through comprehensive encryption, robust access controls, and real-time monitoring of structured, unstructured, vector, and streaming data. This ensures that enterprises remain compliant, protected, and resilient at every stage of AI operations—from data ingestion through advanced inferencing.
Charlie Boyle, Vice President of DGX platforms at NVIDIA, underscored the importance of a streamlined AI stack: “Running inference for AI reasoning models requires infrastructure that can seamlessly handle enormous data sets in real time. Combining VAST’s scalable storage platform with NVIDIA computing and networking—and incorporating agents built with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software—delivers an optimized, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure. This fully managed, efficient stack empowers businesses to extract maximum value from their data and advanced AI reasoning workloads without complexity.”
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