REMOTE-FIRST-COMPANY | LYON, France – 29th September, 2026 – VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced that Arkane Cloud has selected the VAST AI Operating System as the data foundation for its enterprise AI cloud in France. The deployment was delivered with support from PNY Technologies, which worked with Arkane Cloud and VAST on the infrastructure solution and commercial delivery.
Companies across Europe are discovering where AI can generate value, but many still struggle to move experiments into dependable production services. Unpredictable costs, fragmented infrastructure, limited specialist expertise and concerns over sensitive data can prevent promising use cases from moving into production or scaling.
Arkane Cloud launched its cloud platform approximately 18 months ago and it combines locally operated GPU infrastructure, enterprise services and technical guidance to help European enterprises, AI-native companies and deep-tech businesses adopt AI with greater control and lower operational risk.
Companies are trying to establish where AI can create real value, but many still do not know how to begin or predict the cost of operating it at scale,” said Yohann Assoune, Chief of Sales, Arkane Cloud. “They need the freedom to test different approaches, alongside the performance, security and clear path into production required by an enterprise. They also want greater control over where their data is processed and how it is governed. We already knew VAST as a best-of-breed data platform, and its technology gives us the foundation to support secure, sovereign AI services from France.
Arkane Cloud gives customers a progressive path into AI. Organisations can test a use case, consume GPU capacity and models through shared infrastructure, APIs or serverless services, and move to a dedicated AI factory once the workload and commercial model are proven.
GPU availability alone does not create an effective AI service. Data, networking, storage, software, and compute must operate as a coordinated system. When infrastructure cannot supply data quickly enough, expensive accelerators sit idle, reducing utilisation and increasing service costs.
Built on VAST’s Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) architecture, the VAST AI Operating System gives Arkane Cloud a unified data foundation across its multi-tenant environment. Arkane Cloud can support different GPU classes, workloads and consumption models from a common architecture, including NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems, allowing customers to experiment economically before moving into dedicated environments.
Arkane Cloud is building its services around multi-tenancy, quality of service, security, data protection, SLAs and predictable performance. These controls become essential as organisations introduce proprietary and confidential data into AI models and agents.
Sovereignty is also becoming more important for European customers. Data residency matters, but location alone does not establish control. Organisations also need visibility over who can access information, which policies govern its use and how activity can be audited. By combining infrastructure operated in France with governance at the data layer, Arkane Cloud can give customers greater control over how information is processed, protected and accessed.
AI will become a core operating capability inside every enterprise, but organizations need a practical way to adopt it without committing too early to the wrong model, infrastructure or economics,” said Jeff Denworth, Co-founder, VAST Data. “Arkane Cloud is building an intelligent path that helps customers experiment, prove value and then scale into dedicated production environments on a data foundation built to evolve with them.
Cost control remains central to Arkane Cloud’s approach. Customers are assessing AI projects against infrastructure utilisation, latency, token consumption and long-term operating costs. Arkane Cloud combines flexible early-stage consumption with enterprise agreements designed to provide greater commercial predictability as usage expands.
Arkane Cloud is a key customer for PNY and plays an important role in our value-added distribution strategy for data center and AI solutions. We are particularly pleased to see Arkane Cloud select VAST Data for this strategic project,” said Laurent Chapoulaud, VP EMEA Marketing Professional Solutions, PNY Technologies Europe. “The strong relationship and close collaboration between our teams have been instrumental in successfully delivering this deployment, which will undoubtedly contribute to the continued growth and development of AI in France.
The collaboration between Arkane Cloud, VAST Data and PNY Technologies gives European organisations a clear and controlled path into enterprise AI; test the right use case, prove it on shared infrastructure and scale into production once its value is clear.