Legacy storage was built for one workload at a time, forcing separate silos for virtual machines and containers. The result is fragmented infrastructure that's expensive to scale, complex to manage, and unable to deliver consistent performance across both.
VAST AI Operating System for Modern Applications
Modernize Enterprise Applications with VAST AI OS
Run containers and virtual machines on VAST AI OS. Deploy a simple, scalable data platform that can meet the diverse needs of VMs, containers, enterprise apps, and AI workloads.
The Application Platform Challenge
Outgrowing Legacy Data Infrastructure
Avoiding Lock-in
Acquisition-driven licensing changes, renewal spikes, and tighter terms are forcing a hard look at virtualization spend. Leaving teams cautious about committing their infrastructure to a single vendor.
Infrastructure Sprawl
Three storage silos, three things to manage. Decades of storage silos and tiering data have piled on cost, complexity, and created a broader attack surface.
Overprovisioned and Underused
One silo fills up (block) while another sits 40% empty (file), and that stranded capacity can't be shared across systems, so customers overbuy to stay ahead of business demand.
The ability to launch large containers across multiple nodes quickly is critical for our GPU workloads. VAST’s performance allows us to keep those expensive GPUs fully utilized, which is a huge win for us.
J.D. Maloney
Lead HPC Storage Engineer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Why Now
The Inflection Point for Virtualization and Containers
For years, virtual machines and containers were managed separately, each with their own storage silo. Block arrays served VMs, bolt-on container native storage (CNS) architectures handled persistent volumes, and performance came through costly infrastructure sprawl, which was hard to scale and harder to govern.
That fragmentation is no longer the only pressure. A wave of acquisition-driven licensing changes and steep renewals has put virtualization budgets under scrutiny, prompting IT leaders to reassess how much of their infrastructure should rely on any single vendor's terms.
Now, you can address those challenges head on with the VAST AI OS. Run existing VMs in place or migrate them to a modern private cloud, alongside cloud-native apps. Deploy, protect, and manage everything through a single interface, and grow into AI on the same foundation, turning infrastructure modernization from a business risk into a lasting advantage.
The VAST AI Operating System
Unified Storage for the Enterprise
Unlike legacy storage built for one workload at a time, VAST Universal Storage serves block, file, and object from a single all-flash platform. Its Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture lets every workload share one high-performance pool of capacity, eliminating silos, tiering, and overprovisioning.
Consolidate
Consolidate all data and workloads onto a single flash-based system. No copies, no silos, no integration overhead.
Container Storage
One copy, every access pattern. The VAST CSI driver serves persistent volumes over NFS, NVMe/TCP, and S3 from a single dataset, eliminating separate container-native storage silos.
Clone
Instant, space-efficient snapshots and writable clones provide standardized golden-images, consistent test/dev environments, and rollback workflows. Spin up copies in seconds without consuming extra capacity.
Protect
Replication, disaster recovery, multi-tenancy, and ransomware resilience are built into the data layer, protecting your company’s most vital asset, the data.
The Three Pillars of Production-Ready Enterprise AI
Modernize Containers and VMs without Compromise
Unified Data Platform
What is a modern unified data store? It’s an architecture that breaks down the limitations of legacy storage systems that have existed for over 50 years. Traditional controller-based and shared-nothing architectures have forced trade-offs between flexibility, scale, speed, and simplicity; and can’t meet modern workload demands. VAST DataStore replaces individual storage silos and data tiers with a single, AI-optimized platform.
Modern Storage Design
VAST DASE unifies metadata and caching intelligence, offloading both directly to a resilient data persistence layer. Unlike legacy shared-nothing architectures, which depend on dedicated metadata servers or distribute lookups across the compute layer, every VAST CNode can perform horizontal lookups and access data directly, maintaining real-time visibility into the metadata catalog.
Migrate with Confidence
Facing ballooning renewal costs, infrastructure sprawl, and stalled application modernization efforts? It’s time for a change. VAST's Universal Storage collapses data silos and provides the foundation to confidently migrate VMs to a modern private cloud without having to rearchitect applications.
What does DataStore help Enterprises do?
A Universal Storage Platform Engineered for the AI Era
VAST DataStore delivers high-performance, file, object, and block storage on a single platform. It ingests, stores, and serves massive datasets to enterprise workloads at speed; without the tradeoffs customers have come to expect with legacy storage systems.
Unify Data to Accelerate Innovation
Break down legacy silos by managing block, file, and object on a single platform. Harness the capabilities of Universal Storage for analytics, AI, and block workloads to accelerate innovation.
No More Complex Tiering
Eliminate the complexity of tiering across multiple storage systems, each with its own OS, patching, security, and stranded capacity. VAST collapses them onto one platform.
Enterprise-Grade Data Reduction
Global, similarity-based data reduction shrinks your footprint beyond traditional dedupe and compression, more storage on less flash, with no performance penalty.
What does DASE architecture help Enterprises do?
Meet the Storage Architecture for the AI Era
DASE breaks the old trade-offs of storage architecture. It disaggregates capacity from performance and gives every node shared access to all the data. For the first time customers no longer have to compromise between scalability and simplicity, performance and cost, or edge and cloud. Collapse every enterprise workload onto one common platform.
Asymmetric System Scaling
DASE architecture makes it possible to non-disruptively scale from petabytes to exabytes across multiple generations of hardware and use the same architecture in the cloud.
Fault-Tolerant by Design
Deliver more than five 9’s of availability with a stateless compute architecture and 11x data durability, so workloads stay online through hardware failures without data loss.
VAST AI OS by Industry
Universal Storage in Action
The VAST AI Operating System is transforming industries that demand scale, speed, and security.
