Overview
VAST AI Operating System for Broadcast
The Platform For Real-Time Content
Capture, create, catalog, stream & analyze at the speed of flash. Outshine the competition, improve time-to-market, and monetize your archives. The VAST AI Operating System is the first solution to combine all-flash performance with a platform that not only holds all your structured data, along with unstructured media files/objects, but also automates and orchestrates the workflows that process that data.
Liberate and monetize your content's full potential. Get the high-throughput and low latency required for the most demanding workflows. The VAST AI OS streamlines content creation and delivery with a global namespace that unifies edge, core, and cloud, all at the cost of an archive.
Overview
Evolving media workflows need a future-proof platform.
Today’s media and broadcast studios typically deploy a complex mix of storage systems, with each dedicated to a small portion of the workflow. Studios need streaming storage to feed high-bandwidth editorial and playout applications, transactional storage for rendering/VFX workflows, and large, low-cost storage for media archiving and VOD origin storage. These systems become silos that complicate workflows, impede collaboration among distributed teams, and make it challenging to implement cloud-based pipelines.
The VAST AI OS provides the consistent, low-latency performance of all-flash with the economics of archive storage systems. With VAST, studios can consolidate their production and archive requirements into a single, easy-to-manage platform that scales to exabytes, while supporting hundreds of high-res video streams and high-scale rendering. Studios can easily support concurrent projects with granular QoS policies that ensure high-priority workflows are never starved for performance.
We weren’t looking necessarily for solutions for our data; we were looking for a platform for our production arm.
Derek Kennedy
Vice President, Media Operations and DevOps, National Hockey League (NHL)
Key Benefits
The platform for next-generation media and content pipelines
Artists are always pushing technology to its limits to present their vision to the audience. This has traditionally meant targeted systems for each stage of the production process, with media cataloged, managed, and shepherded from stage to stage by additional systems running MAMs and data movers. Incorporating AI for indexing, summarization, and other functions adds additional layers of complexity to support GPU inference servers, vector database clusters, and more.
The VAST AI OS provides not only a universal storage repository that eliminates the need for storage silos and the migration of data between them as described above, but much more. The VAST DataSpace makes your data transparently available wherever you want to access it, across edge, core, and cloud. The VAST Catalog automatically indexes that data into an extensible table in the VAST Database, which can also hold the vector data so critical to AI. SyncEngine extends the VAST AI OS non-VAST data sources, indexing their contents into the VAST Catalog and migrating data from them into VAST. To wrap things up, the VAST DataEngine uses event triggers, such as when video files are stored, to run functions that transcribe, transcode, and transform media, shepherding your media through the stages of your pipeline.
All Flash, at Archive Economics
Deploy all-flash infrastructure for all your active data sets. VAST's new advancements in commodity flash management, data protection, and reduction deliver a lower TCO than hybrid storage alternatives.
Manage Billions of Assets with Ease
Automatically index file and object metadata with the VAST Catalog, a fully integrated and always-in-sync metadata index built on the VAST DataBase.
Power Cloud-Based Pipelines
Deploy VAST across edge, core, and cloud with a global namespace for ultra-efficient data access and distribution.
A Unified, Multi-Protocol Platform
Process content with any application: All your data can be delivered across NFS, SMB, and S3. The VAST AI OS presents a unified permissions management model across not only file and object protocols but also the rows and columns of database tables, including the vectors that describe the files and objects to AI models.
Massive Scale-Out Performance
Scale to thousands of editors, play-out servers, and render nodes from a single, simple storage cluster, all with limitless capacity.
Eliminate Storage Tiering
Affordable all-flash infrastructure means predictable latency and high throughput to all stages of the pipeline.
Reference Architecture
Sample Broadcast Environment with VAST
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Solution Brief
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White Paper
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