Unrivaled Simplicity for Your Research Data
At VAST Data, we offer an advanced data platform tailored to the unique needs of research universities. Our platform provides scalability, security, and performance for various workloads, simplifying data governance and enabling groundbreaking research and discovery.
Trusted by the world’s leading higher education & research institutions
“We've done three rolling upgrades while Stampede3 has been in production and we have had zero downtime on VAST.”
Unified Platform Transforms HPC and Research Data Management
VAST reduces operational complexities and enhances data governance, ensuring seamless multi-tenancy and robust security. The system's advanced architecture minimizes downtime and simplifies maintenance, even during upgrades. With its high-performance capabilities, VAST Data meets the demands of rapid data access and processing, optimizing resource utilization and compliance across both enterprise and HPC environments, ultimately leading to significant budget savings and improved operational efficiency.
Don’t take our word for it.
“VAST is so simple it almost seems too simple, like there's something wrong, but there isn’t.”
Sam Liston Senior IT Architect, University of Utah HPC
“With VAST and NVIDIA, we’re transforming our research capabilities.”
Maurizio Davini, CTO, University of Pisa
“One of our core pain points of a center like ours is the kind of parallel file system that you need in order to support HPC.”
Frank Würthwein, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
“It just works.”
Spencer Pruitt, Associate Vice President of Academic & Research Technologies, Northeastern University
Transform Your Research Data with VAST
Experience the benefits of a cutting-edge data infrastructure designed to meet the unique needs of R1 universities. We help you achieve unprecedented scalability, security, and performance, driving your research forward with confidence.
Secure Multi-Tenancy and Robust Security
Experience the advantages of an advanced data infrastructure tailored to the specific requirements of R1 universities. VAST enables you to achieve unparalleled scalability, security, and performance, empowering your research initiatives.
Continuous Operation and High Availability
The VAST AI OS ensures 99.9999% uptime, providing continuous and reliable operations during system upgrades or unexpected failures sustaining critical computational workflows and data analysis tasks without interruption.
Exceptional Performance for Diverse Workloads
VAST delivers exceptional performance across all IO patterns through its Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture, handling varying HPC and research workloads, from large datasets with sequential IO operations to numerous small files with random IO patterns.
Eliminating Data Redundancy
VAST’s pooled compute groups reduce redundant data copying in multi-disciplinary HPC environments by enabling simultaneous data access and HPC performance for all workloads.
Unified Data Governance
Centrally manage, monitor, and govern diverse data assets by streamlining data governance with a unified framework and the VAST Data Catalog for efficient metadata querying.
Maximizing Resource Efficiency
VAST helps achieve higher peak bandwidth and resource efficiency by consolidating the characteristics of high-capacity and high-performance systems into a single data platform, maximizing system performance.
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