VAST Data

VAST Data Appoints Rick Scurfield to Executive Leadership Team as Chief Revenue Officer

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today named Rick Scurfield as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

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  • Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today named Rick Scurfield as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
  • In this new role, Scurfield is poised to help VAST enable organizations around the world to make their data more meaningful, unlocking radical intelligence and utility.
  • Scurfield, a veteran sales executive in the technology industry, brings a wealth of experience to VAST Data.
  • While at NetApp, Scurfield played a pivotal role in transforming the company's go-to-market (GTM) strategies and significantly boosting revenue streams.

NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.

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  • The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.
  • “NVIDIA Networking is central to the scalability of our AI supercomputing infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA.
  • “NVIDIA X800 switches are end-to-end networking platforms that enable us to achieve trillion-parameter-scale generative AI essential for new AI infrastructures.”
    Initial adopters of Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet include Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Behind this transformation is the evolution of data centers into high-performance AI engines with increased demands for networking infrastructure,” said Nidhi Chappell, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure.

VAST Data and Supermicro Collaborate to Simplify and Accelerate AI Pipelines

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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With the VAST Data Platform , organizations can now automatically store and apply context to unstructured data, accelerate data analytics with a new approach to transactional and analytical data warehousing, and eliminate data silos with a unified global namespace from edge-to-cloud.

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  • With the VAST Data Platform , organizations can now automatically store and apply context to unstructured data, accelerate data analytics with a new approach to transactional and analytical data warehousing, and eliminate data silos with a unified global namespace from edge-to-cloud.
  • Additionally, the VAST Data Platform resolves the long-standing compromise between performance and capacity, ensuring unified access to all data.
  • “Supermicro is excited to collaborate with VAST Data to deploy their VAST Data Platform," said Charles Liang, president and CEO at Supermicro.
  • Customers can now buy a fully optimized VAST Data Platform AI solution stack directly from Supermicro or select distribution channels.

VAST Data Unveils New Data Platform Architecture for the AI Factory

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.

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  • Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.
  • Building on NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU ) technology, VAST Data’s parallel system architecture makes it possible to disaggregate the entirety of VAST’s operating system natively into AI computing machinery, transforming supercomputers into AI data engines.
  • Moreover, by removing multiple layers of x86 hardware and networking from VAST’s network-attached Data Platform infrastructure, this new AI factory architecture dramatically reduces the cost, footprint, and power associated with AI data services.
  • Enhancing Zero-Trust Security: This new AI factory architecture ensures that data and data management remain protected and isolated from host operating systems.

VAST Data and Run:ai Revolutionize AI Operations with Full-Stack AI Solution Powered by NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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This collaboration marks a monumental step in redefining AI operations at scale, offering a full-stack solution encompassing compute, storage, and data management.

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  • This collaboration marks a monumental step in redefining AI operations at scale, offering a full-stack solution encompassing compute, storage, and data management.
  • Run:ai streamlines accelerated NVIDIA AI infrastructure across private, public, and hybrid clouds, while boosting AI project efficiency through dynamic workload scheduling and innovative GPU fractioning, enhancing GPU allocation and utilization.
  • “We've recognized that customers need a more holistic approach to AI operations,” said Renen Hallak, CEO and co-founder of VAST Data.
  • Learn more about VAST and Run:ai at NVIDIA GTC by visiting VAST Data at Booth #1424.

VAST Data and Genesis Cloud Partner to Deliver AI-Optimized Cloud Infrastructure for Organizations Worldwide

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Friday, January 26, 2024
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Together, VAST and Genesis Cloud are poised to make AI and accelerated cloud computing more efficient, scalable and accessible to organizations across the globe.

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  • Together, VAST and Genesis Cloud are poised to make AI and accelerated cloud computing more efficient, scalable and accessible to organizations across the globe.
  • The company is using the VAST Data Platform to build the most comprehensive set of AI data services in the industry.
  • Using the VAST Data Platform’s high performance, single tier and feature rich capabilities, Genesis Cloud is delivering data services that simplify and streamline data set preparation to better facilitate model training.
  • "With the VAST Data Platform, Genesis Cloud offers organizations access to Europe’s most performant and efficient GPU-accelerated cloud services, optimized to suit the needs of their business - from speed, to scale, to security and compliance,” said Chris Morgan, Vice President, Solutions at VAST Data.

Lola VFX Selects the VAST Data Platform to Power Next-Gen Film and TV Visual Effects

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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No-Headquarters | NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today announced its collaboration with Lola Visual Effects (VFX), a leader in computer generated effects for feature films and television series.

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  • No-Headquarters | NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today announced its collaboration with Lola Visual Effects (VFX), a leader in computer generated effects for feature films and television series.
  • These new formats and the incredible visual effects being used across the media and entertainment industry today require managing massive amounts of visual data, which poses significant challenges.
  • To overcome these challenges, Lola VFX selected the VAST Data Platform .
  • With the unique architecture and capabilities of the VAST Data Platform, Lola VFX is completely changing the landscape of visual storytelling.”
    Why VAST Data Platform for Animation and VFX: Creativity knows no bounds, neither should your data

VAST Data Closes Series E Funding Round, Nearly Triples Valuation to $9.1 Billion

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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“A new AI data stack is required,” said Renen Hallak, CEO and Co-Founder of VAST Data.

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  • “A new AI data stack is required,” said Renen Hallak, CEO and Co-Founder of VAST Data.
  • In May 2023, VAST Data furthered this mission with the VAST Data Platform achieving NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD certification , making large scale AI deployments simpler, faster, more reliable and easier to manage.
  • In April 2023, VAST Data entered into a strategic partnership with HPE , helping enterprise customers manage unstructured data with high performance at scale to deliver superior time to data insight.
  • "With a modern data platform fine-tuned for the performance and scale AI requires, VAST Data is well-positioned to capture a massive opportunity."

VAST Data Simplifies and Secures Hybrid Cloud Data Management While Delivering up to 80 Percent Cost Savings on AWS Cloud

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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With the VAST Data Platform, organizations benefit from enterprise data management capabilities and infrastructure efficiencies to easily manage files, objects, and tables wherever computation happens.

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  • With the VAST Data Platform, organizations benefit from enterprise data management capabilities and infrastructure efficiencies to easily manage files, objects, and tables wherever computation happens.
  • Additionally, cloud-native organizations can now start their journey with VAST in the cloud to gain access to the transformative capabilities of the VAST Data Platform.
  • “The VAST Data Platform makes it simple for the Allen Institute to rapidly share and process data anywhere.
  • “The VAST Data Platform is the simplest, fastest, most efficient and most secure way for customers to achieve AI-powered insights from all of their data, across private and public clouds,” said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data.

VAST Data Wins Two HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards for Best HPC Storage Technology and Best Use of HPC in Financial Services

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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The VAST Data Platform was awarded Best HPC Storage Product or Technology, and VAST was also recognized with customer G-Research , winning the Best Use of HPC in Financial Services category.

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  • The VAST Data Platform was awarded Best HPC Storage Product or Technology, and VAST was also recognized with customer G-Research , winning the Best Use of HPC in Financial Services category.
  • "Sustainable businesses are built on sustainable technology strategies and these inevitably require strategic partnerships, like what we've established with VAST Data."
  • VAST was also recognized last year, winning the 2022 HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology.
  • To learn more about the award-winning VAST Data Platform at SC23, read our blog or visit VAST at booth #1343.