As data spreads across legacy on-prem systems and multiple public clouds, it fragments into silos, each with distinct tools, formats, and access methods. The result is a hybrid, multi-cloud data estate that’s costly to scale, difficult to govern, and slow to supply AI workloads.
VAST AI Operating System for Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Multi-Cloud Flexibility with VAST AI OS
With VAST Data on the public cloud, organizations can run VAST data services across hybrid environments. This single-platform approach eliminates data silos and costly data movement, allowing teams to accelerate AI initiatives and simplify infrastructure management.
The Hybrid Cloud Challenge
Hybrid Cloud Shouldn't Mean Fragmented Data
Fragmented Data
Hybrid storage is complex and fragmented, spanning multiple cloud-native services and limited third-party options. Managing each one separately drives up cost, complexity, risk, and lock-in.
Hidden Context
When data is scattered across tiers and silos, critical context stays trapped and invisible to AI, leaving models with stale embeddings and unreliable answers.
Performance vs Cost Tradeoff
Hybrid cloud shouldn’t require trading performance for cost. Yet, organizations often split data between costly managed Lustre offerings and affordable archive tiers, creating silos and demanding continual data migrations.
Every day we collect hundreds of terabytes of new data for neural genomics research, and we manage these massive datasets across our own private clouds and AWS for rapid, global data access. The VAST Data Platform makes it simple for the Allen Institute to rapidly share and process data anywhere. These new hybrid cloud enhancements give our researchers and partners easy-to-use tools to build global AI pipelines that facilitate and accelerate our pursuit of new scientific discoveries.
David Feng
Director of Scientific Computing, Allen Institute
Why Now
The Inflection Point for Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Organizations are under intense pressure to accelerate AI and analytics, but enterprise data remains fragmented across legacy storage infrastructure and multiple cloud-native storage services. Each environment creates new data silos, inconsistent access methods, and unnecessary data movement that raises costs, limits GPU efficiency, and slows AI innovation.
VAST AI OS changes the equation with a single Universal Storage platform that spans on-premises data centers and every major public cloud. Its Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture separates capacity from performance, so every workload draws from one shared pool of flash instead of navigating silos and tiers. Paired with VAST DataSpace, cloud AI services gain direct access to business data wherever it lives.
By eliminating data silos, duplicate copies, and complex data movement, organizations accelerate AI business initiatives, simplify operations, and get more from every cloud investment.
The VAST AI Operating System
Unified Storage for the Hybrid Cloud
For decades, enterprises have juggled separate storage silos for different data types across on-prem and public clouds: driving up costs, complexity, and security risks. VAST Universal Storage shatters these boundaries serving block, file, and object from a single all-flash platform. Providing companies with complete visibility and unified governance across their entire data estate.
Consolidate
Instead of separate systems for block, file, and object across on-prem and every cloud, consolidate everything onto one all-flash platform: no silos, no tiering.
Transform Data In Place
Copies and manual migrations leave AI projects working with stale, out-of-sync data across hybrid environments. Access and interact with data anywhere without copies: no duplication, no drift.
Govern
Apply one governance model across on-prem and every cloud, with global permissions and any-protocol access for uniform identity, security, and compliance wherever data lives.
The Three Pillars of Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Solving the Hardest Challenges in Hybrid AI
Unified Hybrid Architecture
Legacy architecture requires separate silos for block, file, and object across the data center and the public cloud, each with its own tiering, patching, and integration overhead. Consolidate all enterprise data onto a single all-flash platform that spans every environment: no silos, no tiering, no integration overhead.
Federated Data Access
Distributed teams are forced to copy and sync data across sites, regions, and clouds just to work together; creating stale copies, governance gaps, and workforce delays. VAST DataSpace federates every location into a single shared namespace, so global teams read and write the same data from anywhere with real-time consistency. No copies to reconcile and no silos to cross.
Real-Time Streaming Analytics and Event-Driven Pipelines
In the cloud, costly GPUs sit idle waiting on data to rehydrate from slow archive and object tiers. VAST AI OS serves every dataset from a single all-flash tier, feeding GPUs directly with no migrations from cold storage. The result: GPUs stay saturated, jobs finish faster, and every cloud GPU hour turns into more AI output.
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 DataSpace help Enterprises do?
Meet the Global Namespace for Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Align data movement, caches, and replicas with workload demand to reduce cost and complexity. Intelligent policies place data where it will be processed next, optimizing performance and resource utilization across global environments.
Unified Data Estate
Bring data from every location into one data estate. Workloads move seamlessly between locations, maintaining consistent performance and data integrity across every VAST AI OS deployment.
Adaptive Synchronization
Pre-stage data in the cloud ahead of a scheduled job, so workloads start instantly and maximize throughput: no waiting for data to arrive, no idle compute.
VAST AI OS by Industry
Universal Storage in Action
The VAST AI Operating System is transforming industries that demand scale, speed, and security.
