VAST Data for Financial, Regulated and Sovereign Data

Compliance

The foundation for compliant, sovereign, and AI-ready infrastructure, unifying governance, performance, and trust across every data source.

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Compliance now means proving trust across borders. VAST provides the data foundation where governance, security, and control travel with the data, meeting global standards like SEC, GDPR, and FINRA while enabling a sovereign, AI-ready future.

Overview

Legacy Architectures Traded Insight for Compliance

Traditional compliance systems locked data away in “vaults” and “archives,” where security came at the expense of speed and access. Regulated organizations accepted this false choice, that compliance and performance couldn’t coexist. WORM-based storage protected data but froze its value, forcing businesses to maintain separate copies just to analyze or learn from it.

Today, regulation and AI both demand the opposite: transparency, accountability, and realtime data access. You can’t both silo and scale with legacy infrastructure. VAST resolves that paradox with a platform where governance and agility coexist embedding encryption, auditability, and fine-grained security into every byte so you can prove compliance and stay AI-ready.

Sovereignty: Compliance Without Borders

Regulation defines where data must live; sovereignty defines how it must be controlled.

As nations, regulators, and enterprises demand verifiable data governance, VAST delivers the platform that makes sovereignty a practical reality.

With built-in encryption, role- and row-based access control, and immutable audit trails, every piece of data in VAST carries its own “passport” of policies and proofs. Governance travels with the data, across sites, clouds, and borders, ensuring that compliance is not lost when innovation scales.

Whether meeting SEC retention rules, GDPR obligations, or national AI laws, VAST enables the optionality to be compliant without compromise, and sovereignty without borders, giving organizations the confidence to build globally while staying accountable locally.

We are regulated by the rules and governments of the US, Canada and the European Union. Encryption is a must for us, all of our data has to be encrypted VAST gives us very good granular control, which is natively built into the product. Between encryption, immutable snapshots and multifactor authentication we have a pretty good defensive model in terms of protecting our customer’s data.

Najim Khan

Senior Manager of Cloud Services, OpenText

Key Benefits

Unified, Compliant, and AI-Ready

The VAST Data AI Operating System eliminates the old trade-off between compliance and performance. Built from the ground up for governance and speed, it lets regulated organizations consolidate archives, data lakes, and analytics into a single, affordable all-flash platform; proving compliance while powering AI.

Certified for NVIDIA SuperPOD scale, VAST delivers the performance to train and serve models directly from compliant storage; no duplication, no delay, no compromise.

With the VAST Data Catalog, every dataset carries its own retention, audit, and legal-hold metadata, providing instant visibility and control across jurisdictions. Compliance becomes continuous, automated, and measurable.

Superior Data Reduction

VAST’s similarity-based data reduction combines the global approach of deduplication with the byte-granular approach to pattern for unparalleled efficiency without performance impact.

Zero-Trust Architecture

Build compliance on a secure foundation with granular controls, reporting and audit capabilities.

VAST Catalog

Gain instant visibility across all data with simple SQL queries at any scale. Easily generate reports and verify compliance with regulations.

Superior Data Reduction

VAST’s similarity-based data reduction combines the global approach of deduplication with the byte-granular approach to pattern for unparalleled efficiency without performance impact.

Zero-Trust Architecture

Build compliance on a secure foundation with granular controls, reporting and audit capabilities.

VAST Catalog

Gain instant visibility across all data with simple SQL queries at any scale. Easily generate reports and verify compliance with regulations.

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Shared Everything Article

Sovereign Brains, Local Edges: Building the AI Infrastructure Map of the Future

Sovereign LLMs are fragmenting AI into national networks. Ken Patchett’s aggregated edge vision shows how local sites can keep it connected and compliant.

Aug 11, 2025

Blog Post

VAST Certified as a Secure Financial Services DataStore

Cohasset’s VAST DataStore Compliance Assessment validates that when configured properly, The VAST DataStore meets the requirements for immutability and audibility.

Sep 20, 2023

White Paper

NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD: VAST

Reference Architecture - Featuring NVIDIA DGX H100 and DGX A100 Systems

13 pages

Trusted by the world’s leading data-driven organizations

Legacy Architectures Traded Insight for Compliance

Sovereignty: Compliance Without Borders

Unified, Compliant, and AI-Ready

Superior Data Reduction​

Zero-Trust Architecture​

VAST Catalog​

Superior Data Reduction​

Zero-Trust Architecture​

VAST Catalog​

Innovation begins with understanding

Sovereign Brains, Local Edges: Building the AI Infrastructure Map of the Future

VAST Certified as a Secure Financial Services DataStore

NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD: VAST

Superior Data Reduction

Zero-Trust Architecture

VAST Catalog

Superior Data Reduction

Zero-Trust Architecture

VAST Catalog