Partnering to Build Israel’s Largest Sovereign AI Cloud

SDS is building Israel’s largest sovereign AI cloud with VAST’s AI Operating System, delivering performance and scalability for the nation’s most ambitious AI workloads.

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Industry

Cloud Service Provider

Use Case

Artificial Intelligence
Overview

As the dominant colocation and cloud provider in Israel, SDS is building a next-generation AI cloud ecosystem to serve both domestic and international enterprises. By integrating VAST’s cutting-edge AI Operating System, SDS ensures its customers have access to best-in-class AI data infrastructure, enabling seamless training and deployment of AI models at scale.

With dozens of petabytes of VAST-powered data infrastructure and thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA networking, this partnership cements SDS’s position as the backbone of AI innovation in Israel. The infrastructure is designed to serve large-scale enterprises that require uncompromising performance, security, and scalability to fuel their AI workloads.

Background

SDS has established itself as Israel’s leading colocation provider, dominating over 70% of the market. As the demand for AI infrastructure grows exponentially, SDS recognized the need to build a cloud ecosystem capable of supporting both national AI initiatives and international enterprises looking for a highly connected, sovereign AI solution.

Outcome

After a comprehensive evaluation of leading AI data platforms and infrastructure solutions, SDS determined that the VAST AI Operating System was the most advanced and suitable for its sovereign AI cloud build. Key decision factors included:

  • Scalability & Flexibility: VAST’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture allows SDS to scale seamlessly, accommodating growing AI workloads without downtime or complexity.

  • Multi-Tenant & Protocol-Agnostic: Supporting S3, NFS, and SMB protocols, VAST provides a frictionless data platform solution for AI developers, enabling efficient multi-tenancy for SDS’s diverse customer base.

  • AI-Optimized Performance: VAST delivers the high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure required to maximize SDS’s GPU utilization and ensure continuous AI training and inference.

  • Future-Proof Growth & Investment: The ability to mix and match storage generations ensures long-term cost efficiency and seamless hardware upgrades.

  • Simplified AI Data Management: VAST unifies structured and unstructured data, enabling AI models to seamlessly process, enrich, and query metadata at exabyte scale.

  • Always-On Expansion & Upgrades: SDS can continuously evolve its AI infrastructure with non-disruptive scaling, ensuring seamless growth for its customers.

AI will define Israel’s next chapter as a technology leader and AI infrastructure is the next frontier for Israel’s digital economy. The AI market is set to be exponentially larger than the cybersecurity market was before it, and SDS is at the forefront of ensuring Israel’s position as a global AI powerhouse. To achieve this, we needed an infrastructure partner that not only delivers world-class performance and scalability but also aligns with our vision for the future. VAST Data’s modern architecture, multi-protocol flexibility, and AI-native design made it the clear choice.

Danny Bilitski
General Manager, SDS