The Backbone of Your Data Ecosystem
Just like the nervous system transmits signals to coordinate your body’s movements, VAST Data connects with nearly every step of the healthcare process – from research to diagnosis and patient care. Acting as the real-time communication hub, VAST enables seamless data flow, ensuring information gets where it needs to go quickly and securely.
Trusted by world-leading healthcare & life science institutions
“We were excited to work with VAST because of the performance they could offer at this scale, and the system’s multiple protocol support is critical to our entire pipeline.”
Scientific Discovery has Evolved Beyond Legacy Storage Approaches
Healthcare and life sciences organizations are generating and processing vast amounts of data, from genomic sequences to medical imaging and electronic health records (EHRs). Each generation of life sciences technology creates even more data than the last—genome sequencing, for example, produces 30x more data than exome sequencing, and technologies like cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) are replacing cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) with data payloads 10 times larger. This exponential data growth, driven by advancements such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) and AI-led imaging models, is straining traditional infrastructure.
Outdated storage systems cannot keep pace with the demands of real-time bioinformatics pipelines, machine learning models, and open science collaboration. The lack of cloud integration further limits the ability to share data efficiently across institutions and research centers. Data silos, fragmented systems, and unoptimized workflows slow down an organization’s ability to generate insights and act on their data, resulting in delayed diagnoses, prolonged research timelines, and stifled innovation.
As these challenges mount, the need for advanced infrastructure solutions becomes urgent. VAST Data addresses these issues by unifying structured and unstructured data, eliminating silos, and providing the scalability and performance required to manage today’s ever-growing datasets. By integrating cloud capabilities and enabling real-time data processing, VAST accelerates innovation, ensuring data integrity and accessibility across institutions, while powering the next generation of discoveries for healthcare and the life sciences.
AI-Fueled Diagnostics for Life-Saving Research
VAST Data brings cutting-edge infrastructure solutions to the healthcare and life sciences field by addressing key challenges in genomic research, medical imaging, drug discovery, and compliance. VAST presents a unified view of both unstructured and structured data to ensure real-time data processing, high throughput, and low latency, all while maintaining industry regulations and requirements.
Accelerating Time-to-Insight for Genomic Research
Timing is everything when facing a serious medical condition. The sooner it’s caught, the sooner it can be treated. This is especially true in genomics, where massive datasets must be analyzed in real time to inform clinical decisions. Fragmented systems, data silos, and managing both structured (patient records) and unstructured data (genomic sequences) slow workflows. VAST unifies this data into a single, scalable platform, processing petabytes of data in real time and reducing time-to-insight from days to hours.
Seamless, Secure and Speedy Data Sharing Across Institutions
A single MRI scan may pass through multiple radiologists, physicians, and labs before a patient sees the results. These exchanges may cause challenges for patient confidentiality, regulatory compliance and imagery analysis. Clunky exchanges hinder collaboration and AI model training, delaying diagnosis. VAST Data offers a global namespace for secure, efficient sharing across environments. With AES-256 encryption, WORM capabilities, and HIPAA compliance, VAST safeguards data integrity and patient outcomes without compromise.
Eliminating Data Bottlenecks to Drug Discovery
Drug research relies on managing large unstructured datasets from experiments, clinical trials, and studies that traditional infrastructure can’t handle. Bulky, fragmented datasets slow AI model performance, delaying drug candidate identification. VAST Data consolidates every phase of the AI workflow— from data ingestion to model training—onto a single, high-performance platform. By supporting various data formats and integrating with GPU acceleration, VAST eliminates bottlenecks and automates workflows, speeding up AI processing for faster drug discovery.
Scalable Solutions for Growing Data Needs
As genomic research grows, infrastructure teams must manage large datasets while ensuring fast data ingestion and processing. The VAST AI Operating System's scalability ensures that, as data volumes vary, performance remains uncompromised. VAST’s DASE architecture decouples compute from storage, allowing each to scale independently. This enables research teams to expand storage capacity without overprovisioning or impacting performance.
Optimized AI-Driven Imaging and Diagnostics
AI in medical imaging has transformed diagnostics, enabling healthcare teams to detect patterns and make insights quicker than ever before. AI-driven models for MRI, CT scans, and advanced diagnostics (like protein folding and brain mapping) rely on massive datasets to provide accurate, real-time results. These models demand robust infrastructure. The VAST AI OS optimizes AI imaging workflows, ensuring peak performance and delivering faster, more accurate diagnostics.
Data Integrity and Compliance for Healthcare Solutions
Securing sensitive clinical data, like patient records and EHRs, while maintaining HIPAA compliance is a complex task. VAST simplifies this process by offering secure storage through advanced encryption, immutable snapshots, and enterprise-grade governance. By reducing management overhead and providing high-performance data access, VAST helps infrastructure teams meet regulatory requirements efficiently and effectively.
Sample Genomics Pipeline with VAST
