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Channel Post MEA
2 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
VAST Data Expand Partnership With Cisco
VAST Data has announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Cisco to deliver a fully integrated and validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage, and observability. The VAST AI Operating System is now available directly through Cisco's Global Price List (GPL) and is fully supported by Cisco as part of the joint solution – simplifying how enterprises implement, operate, and scale modern AI environments by enabling customers to seamlessly procure and deploy VAST AI OS alongside Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switching, and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI. Together, VAST and Cisco provide a turnkey platform for building enterprise AI Factories – agentic, data-intensive AI systems at scale – ensuring security, performance, and operational agility from edge to core to cloud. The joint solution stack enables customers to unify data pipelines, automate infrastructure management, and reason over real-time data using scalable, zero-trust AI infrastructure. VAST Founder and CEO, Renen Hallak, will join Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel on stage at Cisco Live's Executive Symposium, for a fireside chat discussing this strategic partnership. The conversation will highlight how the two companies are driving enterprise AI adoption and explore key trends shaping the future of AI-driven business. 'Cisco and VAST share a vision for making AI infrastructure accessible, secure, and scalable for every enterprise,' said Jeremy Foster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute. 'We're enabling customers to collapse complexity and unlock faster time-to-value by providing a unified infrastructure stack built for the demands of AI. The joint solution integrates key technologies across both platforms, including: A Consolidated AI Infrastructure Stack: A jointly validated, enterprise-grade platform that brings together Cisco's compute and networking leadership with the industry defining VAST AI Operating System – delivering a full-stack solution for AI infrastructure that's simple to deploy, easy to manage, and built to scale from day one. Integrated AI Execution with InsightEngine and AgentEngine: Customers can now run end-to-end AI pipelines – from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to real-time reasoning – directly within VAST's AI OS on Cisco UCS. VAST InsightEngine accelerates vector search, data preparation, and inference workflows at the point of data, while AgentEngine takes this further by orchestrating autonomous agents that continuously operate on live data streams, enabling real-time, event-driven decision-making. These capabilities empower Cisco environments to become intelligent execution layers – turning raw data into continuous, actionable insight. Unified AI Data and Compute Services: A consolidated software stack via the VAST AI Operating System that simplifies infrastructure complexity by unifying structured, unstructured, and vector data management with agentic compute services – enabling real-time reasoning for next-gen AI applications and workflow automation at scale. Enterprise-Grade Performance and Scalability: High-performance compute with Cisco UCS and scalable, AI-optimized network fabrics via Cisco Nexus, validated to run seamlessly with VAST's Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture – delivering predictable performance across even the largest AI deployments. Faster Time-to-Value with Turnkey Automation: SaaS-based orchestration and lifecycle management from Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, combined with VAST's intelligent dataflows and global namespace, streamline infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling across the full AI pipeline. Built-In Security and Multi-Tenant Readiness: A zero-trust infrastructure model that combines VAST's native data governance and multi-tenant controls with Cisco's secure platform architecture—ensuring isolated, compliant environments for sensitive AI workloads across hybrid and on-prem deployments. A Consolidated AI Infrastructure Stack: A jointly validated, enterprise-grade platform that brings together Cisco's compute and networking leadership with the industry defining VAST AI Operating System – delivering a full-stack solution for AI infrastructure that's simple to deploy, easy to manage, and built to scale from day one. Integrated AI Execution with InsightEngine and AgentEngine: Customers can now run end-to-end AI pipelines – from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to real-time reasoning – directly within VAST's AI OS on Cisco UCS. VAST InsightEngine accelerates vector search, data preparation, and inference workflows at the point of data, while AgentEngine takes this further by orchestrating autonomous agents that continuously operate on live data streams, enabling real-time, event-driven decision-making. These capabilities empower Cisco environments to become intelligent execution layers – turning raw data into continuous, actionable insight. Unified AI Data and Compute Services: A consolidated software stack via the VAST AI Operating System that simplifies infrastructure complexity by unifying structured, unstructured, and vector data management with agentic compute services – enabling real-time reasoning for next-gen AI applications and workflow automation at scale. Enterprise-Grade Performance and Scalability: High-performance compute with Cisco UCS and scalable, AI-optimized network fabrics via Cisco Nexus, validated to run seamlessly with VAST's Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture – delivering predictable performance across even the largest AI deployments. Faster Time-to-Value with Turnkey Automation: SaaS-based orchestration and lifecycle management from Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, combined with VAST's intelligent dataflows and global namespace, streamline infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling across the full AI pipeline. Built-In Security and Multi-Tenant Readiness: A zero-trust infrastructure model that combines VAST's native data governance and multi-tenant controls with Cisco's secure platform architecture—ensuring isolated, compliant environments for sensitive AI workloads across hybrid and on-prem deployments. The VAST + Cisco solution is purpose-built for generative and agentic AI workloads, enabling customers to power complex, data-driven applications with the performance, insight, and operational control needed to drive business transformation. 'This partnership represents the convergence of two best-in-class platforms to create a foundational blueprint for enterprise AI,' said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO at VAST Data. 'By aligning the VAST AI OS with Cisco's UCS and Nexus infrastructure, we're delivering the turnkey simplicity, observability, and scalability that enterprises need to deploy and manage intelligent systems globally.
Mid East Info
2 days ago
- Business
- Mid East Info
VAST Data and Cisco Expand Partnership to Deliver Turnkey, Scalable Infrastructure for Enterprise AI - Middle East Business News and Information
The VAST AI Operating System, now paired with Cisco UCS and Nexus platforms, and the Hyperfabric AI solution, delivers a unified, zero-trust infrastructure blueprint to accelerate enterprise-scale intelligent systems Dubai, United Arab Emirates – June, 2025 – VAST Data , the AI Operating System company, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) to deliver a fully integrated and validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage, and observability. The VAST AI Operating System is now available directly through Cisco's Global Price List (GPL) and is fully supported by Cisco as part of the joint solution – simplifying how enterprises implement, operate, and scale modern AI environments by enabling customers to seamlessly procure and deploy VAST AI OS alongside Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switching, and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI. Together, VAST and Cisco provide a turnkey platform for building enterprise AI Factories – agentic, data-intensive AI systems at scale – ensuring security, performance, and operational agility from edge to core to cloud. The joint solution stack enables customers to unify data pipelines, automate infrastructure management, and reason over real-time data using scalable, zero-trust AI infrastructure. VAST Founder and CEO, Renen Hallak, will join Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel on stage at Cisco Live's Executive Symposium , for a fireside chat discussing this strategic partnership. The conversation will highlight how the two companies are driving enterprise AI adoption and explore key trends shaping the future of AI-driven business. 'Cisco and VAST share a vision for making AI infrastructure accessible, secure, and scalable for every enterprise,' said Jeremy Foster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute. 'We're enabling customers to collapse complexity and unlock faster time-to-value by providing a unified infrastructure stack built for the demands of AI.' The joint solution integrates key technologies across both platforms, including: A Consolidated AI Infrastructure Stack: A jointly validated, enterprise-grade platform that brings together Cisco's compute and networking leadership with the industry defining VAST AI Operating System – delivering a full-stack solution for AI infrastructure that's simple to deploy, easy to manage, and built to scale from day one. Integrated AI Execution with InsightEngine and AgentEngine: Customers can now run end-to-end AI pipelines – from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to real-time reasoning – directly within VAST's AI OS on Cisco UCS. VAST InsightEngine accelerates vector search, data preparation, and inference workflows at the point of data, while AgentEngine takes this further by orchestrating autonomous agents that continuously operate on live data streams, enabling real-time, event-driven decision-making. These capabilities empower Cisco environments to become intelligent execution layers – turning raw data into continuous, actionable insight. Unified AI Data and Compute Services: A consolidated software stack via the VAST AI Operating System that simplifies infrastructure complexity by unifying structured, unstructured, and vector data management with agentic compute services – enabling real-time reasoning for next-gen AI applications and workflow automation at scale. Enterprise-Grade Performance and Scalability: High-performance compute with Cisco UCS and scalable, AI-optimized network fabrics via Cisco Nexus, validated to run seamlessly with VAST's Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture – delivering predictable performance across even the largest AI deployments. Faster Time-to-Value with Turnkey Automation: SaaS-based orchestration and lifecycle management from Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI, combined with VAST's intelligent dataflows and global namespace, streamline infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling across the full AI pipeline. Built-In Security and Multi-Tenant Readiness: A zero-trust infrastructure model that combines VAST's native data governance and multi-tenant controls with Cisco's secure platform architecture—ensuring isolated, compliant environments for sensitive AI workloads across hybrid and on-prem deployments. The VAST + Cisco solution is purpose-built for generative and agentic AI workloads, enabling customers to power complex, data-driven applications with the performance, insight, and operational control needed to drive business transformation. 'This partnership represents the convergence of two best-in-class platforms to create a foundational blueprint for enterprise AI,' said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO at VAST Data. 'By aligning the VAST AI OS with Cisco's UCS and Nexus infrastructure, we're delivering the turnkey simplicity, observability, and scalability that enterprises need to deploy and manage intelligent systems globally.' About VAST Data: VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST's breakthrough DASE architecture – the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI.
TECHx
3 days ago
- Business
- TECHx
VAST Data Expands AI Partnership with Cisco
Home » Emerging technologies » Artificial Intelligence » VAST Data Expands AI Partnership With Cisco VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Cisco. The collaboration aims to deliver a fully integrated and validated AI infrastructure stack. This stack spans compute, networking, storage, and observability. The VAST AI Operating System is now available directly through Cisco's Global Price List (GPL). It is also fully supported by Cisco as part of the joint solution. This move simplifies how enterprises implement, operate, and scale modern AI environments. As a result, customers can seamlessly procure and deploy the VAST AI OS alongside Cisco UCS servers, Nexus switching, and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI. According to the companies, the joint offering supports the creation of enterprise AI Factories. These are agentic, data-intensive AI systems built for scale. The platform ensures security, performance, and operational agility from edge to core to cloud. Moreover, the solution enables customers to unify data pipelines and automate infrastructure management. It also supports real-time reasoning with scalable, zero-trust AI infrastructure. VAST Founder and CEO Renen Hallak will join Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel at Cisco Live's Executive Symposium. They will host a fireside chat discussing the expanded partnership. The session will explore trends in enterprise AI adoption and future developments in AI-driven business. Jeremy Foster, SVP and GM of Cisco Compute, said the goal is to collapse complexity and deliver faster time-to-value. He stated that the companies aim to provide a unified infrastructure stack tailored for AI demands. The joint solution includes several integrated technologies: A consolidated AI stack combining Cisco's compute and networking with the VAST AI OS InsightEngine and AgentEngine for running AI pipelines, vector search, and real-time reasoning The companies reported that InsightEngine accelerates vector search, data preparation, and inference at the data point. AgentEngine extends this by orchestrating autonomous agents on live data streams. This enables real-time, event-driven decisions. They also revealed that the unified software stack simplifies infrastructure by managing structured, unstructured, and vector data together. This setup powers real-time reasoning and workflow automation at scale. The solution offers enterprise-grade performance with Cisco UCS compute and scalable Cisco Nexus network fabrics. These have been validated for seamless operation with VAST's Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture. Cisco and VAST further reported that turnkey automation is achieved through SaaS-based orchestration via Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI. This works with VAST's intelligent dataflows and global namespace to streamline provisioning and scaling. Built-in security and multi-tenant readiness are also included. The infrastructure features zero-trust models, data governance, and platform security for sensitive AI workloads across hybrid and on-prem deployments. The VAST + Cisco solution is designed for generative and agentic AI workloads. It supports complex, data-driven applications with the insight and control needed for business transformation. Renen Hallak stated that this collaboration creates a foundational blueprint for enterprise AI. He added that aligning the VAST AI OS with Cisco's UCS and Nexus infrastructure delivers the simplicity, observability, and scalability enterprises need for global AI system management.
Zawya
19-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Cohesity Gaia pioneers AI-powered insights from on-premises backup data
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is expanding Cohesity Gaia, the enterprise knowledge discovery assistant, to deliver one of the industry's first AI search capabilities for backup data stored on-premises. The solution will be available for use with Cisco UCS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Nutanix. The expansion will enable enterprises to uncover AI-powered insights by unlocking the full potential of their on-premises backup data. As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid cloud strategies, many prefer to have valuable, critical data remain on-premises to meet security, compliance, and performance requirements. Extending Cohesity Gaia to data stored on-premises empowers enterprises to tap into more high-quality data and remain fully in control of their infrastructure. 'As the UAE accelerates its AI and digital transformation agenda in line with the National AI Strategy 2031 and the Digital Government Strategy 2025, enterprises must ensure they can securely harness AI-driven insights while maintaining full control over their data,' said Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President, International Emerging Markets at Cohesity. 'With Cohesity Gaia's expansion to on-premises environments, organizations across key sectors—including government, finance, and healthcare—can leverage AI-powered discovery to drive innovation while aligning with the nation's stringent data security and compliance frameworks.' Leveraging NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform — including with NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever — the Cohesity Gaia discovery assistant brings the power of generative AI to data backups and archives. Cohesity Gaia lets customers unleash new levels of insight, efficiency, innovation, and growth. "Access to data is a crucial foundation for building advanced AI systems, including agentic AI,' said Pat Lee, vice president, Strategic Enterprise Partnerships, NVIDIA. 'By integrating NVIDIA NIM microservices and NeMo Retriever into Cohesity Gaia, enterprises can harness AI-driven insights directly within their infrastructure to preserve data accessibility and security while unlocking new levels of intelligence.' The extension of Cohesity Gaia to on-premises environments will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of AI-driven enterprise data management. Key benefits of the solution include: Complete control and security – allowing enterprises to retain full control over backup data while harnessing AI to extract meaningful insights. High-performance AI with NVIDIA accelerated computing – delivering the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of AI capabilities using accelerated computing Multi-lingual indexing and querying – allowing global enterprises to search and analyze data in multiple languages. Customizable and scalable infrastructure – making it easy for customers to tailor their data intelligence environment to specific business needs. Reference architectures – providing a prescriptive way for enterprises to deploy the solution on-premises across multiple hardware platforms. Pre-packaged on-premises LLMs – eliminating the need for any customer backup data to be transferred to the cloud. Optimized architecture – enabling efficient searches of petabyte-level volumes of data. Customers like JSR Corporation, an international research and manufacturing company, are evaluating the benefits of leveraging Cohesity Gaia's on-premises solution. "With research centers in many locations, our researchers speak different languages. We want to be able to use generative AI to look across years of our data to discover insights that can accelerate the rate of our research and discovery,' said Ryan Reed, Head of IT, JSR Corporation. 'Cohesity is leveraging NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and expertise to make that possible with an on-premises AI solution that uses our own collective knowledge.' Cohesity is collaborating with data security, infrastructure, and AI industry leaders to bring Gaia to enterprises worldwide. Cisco, HPE, and Nutanix will be among the organizations that can offer Cohesity Gaia software with their full stack solutions. Cohesity and Cisco will validate and deploy Cohesity Gaia Software on Cisco AI PODs—plug-and-play AI infrastructure stacks that integrate compute, storage, networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise to simplify adoption with scalable, efficient, and future-ready deployment. Cohesity and HPE will work together to validate and deploy Cohesity Gaia Software on HPE Private Cloud AI, a turnkey, cloud-based solution co-developed with NVIDIA. Cohesity Gaia for on-premises environments is slated for general availability in mid-2025. More information can be found at this blog. To see a demonstration of Cohesity Gaia at NVIDIA GTC, visit booth 2012. Cohesity and NVIDIA will also present a Tech Insights session during the NVIDIA GTC event on March 18 at 9 a.m. Pacific, discussing the enterprise AI landscape, critical gaps, and security considerations. Learn more about Cohesity's work with NVIDIA. Supporting Quotes 'Cohesity Gaia's on-premises solution combined with Cisco's AI-optimized infrastructure would enable organizations to unlock the insights and untapped value in their backup data," said Jeremy Foster, SVP and GM of Cisco Compute. "It promises to also deliver the performance and scalability needed for growing AI workloads, while keeping sensitive data within an organization's control.' "To accelerate value creation with AI, enterprises need exceptional performance and simplicity across their data estate. Cohesity Gaia paired with HPE AI-optimized infrastructure, such as HPE Private Cloud AI, provides both," said Patrick Osborne, SVP of technology acceleration, HPE. "These integrated solutions featuring HPE storage and servers let organizations efficiently manage unstructured data growth, reduce costs and complexity, and create new insights within their own secure environments." "Cohesity Gaia integrated with Nutanix Enterprise AI infrastructure will enable enterprise customers to efficiently derive value from backup data," said Thomas Cornely, SVP of Product Management, Nutanix. This joint solution will deliver valuable AI powered insights with privacy, control, and efficiency, all within the confines of their on-premises environments.' About Cohesity Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas' enterprise data protection business, the company's solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. To learn more, follow Cohesity on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Any forward-looking statements in this release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to change/update without notice. Media Contact The Alto Agency on behalf of Cohesity in the UAE Cohesity@
