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Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Massed Compute Accelerates AI Infrastructure Expansion with up to $300M Investment from Digital Alpha and Strategic Collaboration with Cisco
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Massed Compute, a leading provider of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads, today announced a strategic investment partnership with Digital Alpha, a digital infrastructure investment firm focused on scaling next-generation technology platforms. The investment will enable Massed Compute to significantly expand its AI cloud infrastructure footprint, support customer demand for cutting-edge NVIDIA accelerated computing, and deepen go-to-market alignment with Cisco. "Massed Compute is strongly positioned to meet growing demand from enterprises, data scientists, and Machine Learning engineers through their managed AI cloud solutions," said Kevin Wollenweber, SVP and GM, Data Center and Internet Infrastructure, Cisco. The partnership provides an industry-leading model that enables the next generation of cloud infrastructure required for the largest and most sophisticated AI workloads. The access of up to $300m in equity and revenue share financing gives Massed Compute a powerful tool that allows the company to scale and meet market demand. "Massed Compute is strongly positioned to meet growing demand from enterprises, data scientists, and Machine Learning engineers through their managed AI cloud solutions," said Kevin Wollenweber, SVP and GM, Data Center and Internet Infrastructure, Cisco. "Cisco is excited to help Massed Compute build this capability with our industry-leading Cisco UCS servers as the foundation of their AI infrastructure. By leveraging our expertise in secure, scalable, and high-performance computing for AI, Massed Compute is enabled to deliver powerful and reliable AI services to customers worldwide." Massed Compute operates a high-performance AI cloud platform that provides enterprises, startups, and research institutions with instant access to production-grade GPU clusters. The company delivers reliable and flexible compute environments from Tier III data centers, supporting customers across three continents. Its proprietary automation stack and hands-on technical support enable users to spin up private cloud GPU instances in minutes, eliminating traditional barriers to AI development and deployment. 'Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-native workloads,' said Sunny Smith, Co-Founder and President of Massed Compute. 'This partnership with Digital Alpha and collaboration with Cisco unlocks the scale and momentum we need to accelerate customer onboarding and expand our infrastructure for enterprise AI deployments worldwide. We're now positioned to move faster, support larger-scale rollouts, and push the boundaries of the modern AI-native cloud.' The partnership is expected to catalyze several growth initiatives for Massed Compute: Expanded AI Infrastructure Deployments – Supporting growing customer demand through the rollout of next-generation NVIDIA accelerated computing, including instances with NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, and NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. Enterprise and AI Developers Access – Enabling pay-as-you-go and contracted access to high-performance GPU compute capacity to meet the growing needs of generative AI and machine learning customers. Joint Go-to-Market with Cisco – Leveraging Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) solutions to build a secure AI factory. This will unlock the ability to offer enterprise customers managed cloud AI solutions and accelerate the development of sovereign AI Clouds. Network and Storage Integration – Collaborating with PacketFabric for Network-as-a-Service provisioning and Cloudian for AI-optimized storage. 'Massed Compute exemplifies the next generation of cloud infrastructure providers—flexible, GPU-centric, and engineered for AI workloads from the ground up,' said Rick Shrotri, Managing Partner at Digital Alpha. 'We're excited to back a highly experienced, entrepreneurial team and partner with them to scale a secure, enterprise-ready platform that is critical to the future of AI.' The collaboration reflects Digital Alpha's focus on investing in strategic infrastructure platforms of the future, building on existing relationships with Cisco, and Digital Alpha portfolio companies PacketFabric, Qwilt, and Cloudian to capture product and market synergies. As AI adoption accelerates across every industry, Massed Compute and Digital Alpha aim to bridge the infrastructure gap by delivering enterprise-grade compute capacity where and when it's needed most. About Massed Compute Massed Compute is an AI cloud infrastructure company delivering GPU-as-a-Service to enterprises, startups, and researchers around the world. Based in Seattle, WA, the company operates from Tier III data centers and offers instant access to leading GPUs through virtualized and bare metal instances. Massed Compute helps customers train, fine-tune, and deploy AI models at scale through a flexible and highly reliable platform. About Digital Alpha Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure, partnering with industry leaders to scale platforms that enable the next generation of connectivity, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions. Digital Alpha has a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. and works closely with other leading technology firms to accelerate the deployment of digital infrastructure.
Business Wire
08-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
St. Clair County RESA Modernizes Infrastructure with VergeIO, Eliminates VMware and Veeam
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA), which provides centralized IT services for five school districts, a local community college, and seven municipalities in Michigan, has successfully modernized its infrastructure by replacing VMware and Veeam with VergeIO 's software-defined infrastructure platform, VergeOS. Faced with mounting costs, hardware limitations, and industry disruptions, RESA initiated a complete reevaluation of its IT environment. 'We were hit with a one-two-three punch,' said James Marsack, Senior Network Engineer at RESA. 'First, NetApp announced the end-of-life for our SolidFire array. Then Broadcom acquired VMware and froze all updates while raising prices. Finally, our Cisco UCS environment brought supply chain delays and massive hardware maintenance costs. We needed more than a patch—we needed an infrastructure rethink.' RESA found its answer in VergeOS, a single software platform that combines virtualization, storage, and networking with built-in backup and disaster recovery. Introduced to VergeIO through Cambridge Computer, Marsack said, 'VergeOS didn't just preserve what we relied on—it expanded it. It allowed us to simplify management, reduce licensing costs, and improve performance. And it just works.' Key Results: High-Efficiency Storage: VergeOS' VSAN with global inline deduplication achieved a 16:1 efficiency ratio, compared to 3.7:1 with SolidFire. Backup and DR Simplified: Replaced a half-rack QNAP array and Veeam with VergeOS' integrated snapshot and replication system. Hourly Snapshots: Eliminated daily backup windows and increased resiliency with hourly, space-efficient snapshots and transparent recovery via ioGuardian. Secure Self-Service: VergeOS' secure, multi-tenant architecture empowered districts and municipalities with self-service capabilities, dramatically lowering operational overhead. 'Veeam jobs failed regularly. With VergeOS, we get hourly snapshots, instant rollback, and reliable replication—no third-party dependencies,' said Marsack. RESA also improved security and control. 'VergeOS' tenanting system is elegant—brilliant, even. With SSO and two-factor authentication, it's vastly more secure than VMware,' Marsack added. 'Now, our customers can manage their own VMs, which reduces our management burden and increases their satisfaction.' Marsack credited Cambridge Computer for facilitating the transformation. 'We wouldn't be having this conversation if it wasn't for Cambridge. They introduced us to VergeIO, and it changed everything.' Click here to read the in-depth Case Study about St. Clair RESA's journey to VergeOS. VergeIO will be hosting a webinar on July 17th at 1:00 PM ET, featuring RESA. Click here to register. About VergeIO VergeIO is the leading VMware alternative, providing a unified data center operating system that converges virtualization, storage, networking, and backup into a single piece of software. VergeOS simplifies IT operations, reduces costs, and enables rapid infrastructure deployment on new or repurposed hardware. For more information, visit About St. Clair County RESA St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) is one of Michigan's 56 intermediate school districts. It provides centralized IT, administrative, and instructional services to five local K-12 school districts, a community college, and multiple municipal entities across the region. RESA's mission is to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions that empower its educational and civic partners to serve their communities more effectively.
Channel Post MEA
05-06-2025
- 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
05-06-2025
- 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
04-06-2025
- 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.
