Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY & SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – October 12, 2026 — VAST Data today announced an expanded strategic partnership with DigitalOcean to deploy the VAST AI Operating System within the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud. AI agents need fast, governed access to context, but developers today assemble it from separate object stores, vector databases and data pipelines. Together, the companies are collapsing that stack into one integrated system for inference and agentic applications.
What began as a storage partnership now extends up the stack: DigitalOcean delivers Agent Data Services (ADS), a fully managed data layer where agents and AI applications read the context they need and write back what they learn, leveraging the reliability and scale of the VAST AI OS. Every piece of a customer's data, from agent logs and traces to video, documents, and images, becomes agent-ready the moment it arrives and searchable by meaning in a single call. Everything lands in one tenant-isolated catalog, with built-in governance controlling what each agent can read and write so every agent operates only within the data it is permitted to access. Because ADS unifies storage, database and vector search in one system, data is indexed and queryable as it lands, with no separate vector database or ETL pipeline to manage.
Agents are only as good as the context they can reach,” said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. “They require an integrated environment where compute, data and security work together as one system. VAST and DigitalOcean are building that platform for agents. By combining DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud with the VAST AI OS, we're creating an optimized path without forcing developers to stitch together disconnected services. Together, we're giving models and agents the context they need in real time, with the simplicity and economics enterprises need to operate AI at scale.
The inference and agentic era needs a cloud where every layer is built to work together,” said Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean. “Expanding our partnership with VAST brings the VAST AI OS into the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud, so our customers get the performance and scale of a world-class data platform with the simplicity and scale they expect from DigitalOcean. Together, we're making it easier and more cost-effective for developers and businesses to run AI in production.
Learn more about the VAST and DigitalOcean partnership at DigitalOcean's Open Intelligence Summit, October 12–13, 2026, in San Francisco. VAST Data CTO and Co-Founder Alon Horev will join a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 13, from 3:40 to 4:05 p.m. PT.
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