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TECHx
20-05-2025
- Business
- TECHx
VAST Data Integrates with NVIDIA AI-Q for Enterprise AI
Home » Top stories » VAST Data Integrates with NVIDIA AI-Q for Enterprise AI VAST Data, the AI data platform company, has announced the integration of the VAST Data Platform with NVIDIA AI-Q. This collaboration delivers a unified foundation for building, accelerating, and scaling AI agents across enterprise environments. The company revealed that pairing its platform with the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint enhances capabilities for real-time multimodal data access and intelligent agent orchestration. The integration supports enterprise-scale AI systems. A live demonstration of this collaboration was showcased during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at COMPUTEX. The demo highlighted how AI agents can access and reason over structured and multimodal data in real time. The NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, featured in the keynote, provides a reference implementation for rapid metadata extraction. It also supports heterogeneous connectivity between agents, tools, and data. This simplifies the creation of agentic AI query engines with transparency and traceability. VAST reported that the integration brings together NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing, AI-Q, and VAST's unified platform. It combines database, compute, and data services to enable intelligent agent orchestration with unprecedented speed and scale. Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder at VAST Data, noted the shift in infrastructure needs in the agentic era. He stated that enterprises need immediate and unrestricted access to data for smarter decision-making. By embedding NVIDIA AI-Q, the platform is designed to meet these demands with real-time, multimodal intelligence and dynamic pipelines. With this integration, enterprises gain real-time, high-throughput access to multimodal data, including: Images, videos, chat, email, and documents Structured data from ERP, CRM, and data warehouses Using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, the platform extracts and reranks relevant data before passing it to advanced reasoning models. This secure, AI-native pipeline transforms raw data into actionable insights. Justin Boitano, Vice President of Enterprise AI at NVIDIA, emphasized that AI-driven data platforms are key for operationalizing sophisticated agentic AI. He said that the partnership with VAST enables faster access to insights from business data. VAST and NVIDIA also offer several enterprise-grade benefits: High-speed, low-latency data access at petabyte to exabyte scale Real-time agent optimization with NVIDIA Agent Intelligence toolkit Global data discoverability with VAST's unified namespace Privacy-preserving integration and fine-grained access controls Together, the VAST Data Platform and NVIDIA AI-Q aim to empower enterprises to build intelligent, multi-agent systems with full observability and governance.
Web Release
20-05-2025
- Business
- Web Release
VAST Data Unlocks Real-Time, Multimodal AI Agent Intelligence With NVIDIA
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced its integration of the VAST Data Platform with NVIDIA AI-Q to deliver a unified foundation for building, accelerating, and scaling AI agents across enterprise environments. By pairing the VAST Data Platform with the AI-Q NVIDIA Blueprint, VAST elevates the blueprint's capabilities for optimizing real-time multimodal data access and intelligent agent orchestration for enterprise-scale AI systems. A live demo of the joint VAST Data and NVIDIA collaboration was showcased during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at COMPUTEX, highlighting how enterprise AI agents can access and reason over multimodal and structured data in real time. Watch the demo replay here. The NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, which was part of the keynote demo provides a reference implementation for rapid metadata extraction and establishes heterogeneous connectivity between agents, tools, and data. This approach simplifies the creation and operationalization of agentic AI query engines that reason across structured and unstructured data with transparency and traceability. The VAST AI Data Platform brings together NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing, networking, and AI-Q Blueprint with VAST's unified data platform, combining database, compute, and data services. This integration delivers real-time data access to enable intelligent agent orchestration for enterprise-scale AI systems that can now operate at unprecedented speed and scale. The agentic era is going to challenge every assumption about the scale, performance, and value of legacy infrastructure,' said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder at VAST Data. 'As enterprises race to operationalize AI, it's no longer enough to just build smarter models — those models need immediate, unrestricted access to the data that drives intelligent decision-making. By embedding NVIDIA AI-Q into a platform purpose-built for the AI era, we're delivering the scalable, high-performance data platform required to power the next generation of enterprise AI; one driven by real-time, multimodal intelligence, continuous learning, and dynamic agentic pipelines.' Through this integration, VAST provides enterprises with real-time, high-throughput access to multimodal enterprise data – including images, documents, chat, video, and email – enabling AI agents to continuously perceive, reason, and act on the full breadth of organizational knowledge. Using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, the platform extracts, embeds, and reranks relevant data before passing it to advanced language and reasoning models. Together with NVIDIA AI-Q, the VAST Data Platform forms a secure, AI-native pipeline that transforms raw data into actionable insight—empowering enterprises to deploy intelligent multi-agent systems with full observability, traceability, and data sovereignty. 'AI-driven data platforms are key to helping enterprises put their data to work to drive sophisticated agentic AI systems,' said Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA. 'Together, NVIDIA and VAST are creating the next generation of AI infrastructure with powerful AI systems that let enterprises quickly find insights and knowledge stored in their business data.' With the VAST Data Platform and NVIDIA AI-Q integration, enterprises benefit from: ? Multimodal RAG of Unstructured Data Without Limits: AI agents can seamlessly access and reason over unstructured and semi-structured data—including enterprise documents, images, videos, chat logs, PDFs, and even external sources like websites, blogs, and market data—enabling deep, context-aware insights across the full spectrum of enterprise and open content. ? Native Access to Structured Enterprise Data: The VAST Data Platform connects AI agents directly to structured data sources such as ERP, CRM, and data warehouses, providing real-time, high-throughput access to operational records, business metrics, and transactional systems—ensuring AI-powered decisions are grounded in current, authoritative enterprise data. ? High-Speed, Low-Latency Data Access: VAST's disaggregated and parallel architecture ensures fast, concurrent access to petabyte- and exabyte-scale datasets—eliminating bottlenecks for inference and retrieval. ? Real-Time Agent Optimization: NVIDIA Agent Intelligence toolkit combined with VAST's native telemetry allows enterprises to evaluate, fine-tune, and accelerate multi-agent workflows in production. ? Unified Global DataSpace: VAST's global namespace and data cataloging capabilities make all enterprise knowledge discoverable and usable by agents anywhere in the organization. ? Privacy-Preserving Integration: Enterprises can keep sensitive knowledge in place while enabling agents to reason and act without violating data governance or residency policies. ? Enterprise-Grade Access Control: Robust security policies and fine-grained controls within the VAST Data Platform manage and regulate access to data, resources, and platform services—ensuring enterprise data is protected, governed, and only accessible by authorized users and AI agents. VAST Data and NVIDIA are enabling organizations to build real-time AI intelligence engines that empower teams of AI agents to deliver more accurate insights, automate multi-step tasks, and continuously improve via an AI data flywheel. Additional Resources: ? BLOG: Live from Computex ? DEMO: Shaping the Future of Work with Agentic AI ? WEBINAR: Step Into the Agentic Era: Real-Time Enterprise AI with VAST & NVIDIA ? BLOG: Ready to Reason: Storage Leaders Build Infrastructure to Fuel AI Agents With NVIDIA AI Data Platform
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
VAST Data Unlocks Real-Time, Multimodal AI Agent Intelligence With NVIDIA
Integration combines VAST's exabyte-scale data platform with NVIDIA AI-Q to power multimodal AI agents and real-time enterprise intelligence Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY | COMPUTEX 2025, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced its integration of the VAST Data Platform with NVIDIA AI-Q to deliver a unified foundation for building, accelerating, and scaling AI agents across enterprise environments. By pairing the VAST Data Platform with the AI-Q NVIDIA Blueprint, VAST elevates the blueprint's capabilities for optimizing real-time multimodal data access and intelligent agent orchestration for enterprise-scale AI systems. A live demo of the joint VAST Data and NVIDIA collaboration was showcased during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at COMPUTEX, highlighting how enterprise AI agents can access and reason over multimodal and structured data in real time. Watch the demo replay here. The NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, which was part of the keynote demo provides a reference implementation for rapid metadata extraction and establishes heterogeneous connectivity between agents, tools, and data. This approach simplifies the creation and operationalization of agentic AI query engines that reason across structured and unstructured data with transparency and traceability. The VAST AI Data Platform brings together NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing, networking, and AI-Q Blueprint with VAST's unified data platform, combining database, compute, and data services. This integration delivers real-time data access to enable intelligent agent orchestration for enterprise-scale AI systems that can now operate at unprecedented speed and scale. The agentic era is going to challenge every assumption about the scale, performance, and value of legacy infrastructure,' said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder at VAST Data. 'As enterprises race to operationalize AI, it's no longer enough to just build smarter models — those models need immediate, unrestricted access to the data that drives intelligent decision-making. By embedding NVIDIA AI-Q into a platform purpose-built for the AI era, we're delivering the scalable, high-performance data platform required to power the next generation of enterprise AI; one driven by real-time, multimodal intelligence, continuous learning, and dynamic agentic pipelines.' Through this integration, VAST provides enterprises with real-time, high-throughput access to multimodal enterprise data – including images, documents, chat, video, and email – enabling AI agents to continuously perceive, reason, and act on the full breadth of organizational knowledge. Using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, the platform extracts, embeds, and reranks relevant data before passing it to advanced language and reasoning models. Together with NVIDIA AI-Q, the VAST Data Platform forms a secure, AI-native pipeline that transforms raw data into actionable insight—empowering enterprises to deploy intelligent multi-agent systems with full observability, traceability, and data sovereignty. 'AI-driven data platforms are key to helping enterprises put their data to work to drive sophisticated agentic AI systems,' said Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA. 'Together, NVIDIA and VAST are creating the next generation of AI infrastructure with powerful AI systems that let enterprises quickly find insights and knowledge stored in their business data.' With the VAST Data Platform and NVIDIA AI-Q integration, enterprises benefit from: Multimodal RAG of Unstructured Data Without Limits: AI agents can seamlessly access and reason over unstructured and semi-structured data—including enterprise documents, images, videos, chat logs, PDFs, and even external sources like websites, blogs, and market data—enabling deep, context-aware insights across the full spectrum of enterprise and open content. Native Access to Structured Enterprise Data: The VAST Data Platform connects AI agents directly to structured data sources such as ERP, CRM, and data warehouses, providing real-time, high-throughput access to operational records, business metrics, and transactional systems—ensuring AI-powered decisions are grounded in current, authoritative enterprise data. High-Speed, Low-Latency Data Access: VAST's disaggregated and parallel architecture ensures fast, concurrent access to petabyte- and exabyte-scale datasets—eliminating bottlenecks for inference and retrieval. Real-Time Agent Optimization: NVIDIA Agent Intelligence toolkit combined with VAST's native telemetry allows enterprises to evaluate, fine-tune, and accelerate multi-agent workflows in production. Unified Global DataSpace: VAST's global namespace and data cataloging capabilities make all enterprise knowledge discoverable and usable by agents anywhere in the organization. Privacy-Preserving Integration: Enterprises can keep sensitive knowledge in place while enabling agents to reason and act without violating data governance or residency policies. Enterprise-Grade Access Control: Robust security policies and fine-grained controls within the VAST Data Platform manage and regulate access to data, resources, and platform services—ensuring enterprise data is protected, governed, and only accessible by authorized users and AI agents. VAST Data and NVIDIA are enabling organizations to build real-time AI intelligence engines that empower teams of AI agents to deliver more accurate insights, automate multi-step tasks, and continuously improve via an AI data flywheel. Additional Resources: BLOG: Live from Computex DEMO: Shaping the Future of Work with Agentic AI WEBINAR: Step Into the Agentic Era: Real-Time Enterprise AI with VAST & NVIDIA BLOG: Ready to Reason: Storage Leaders Build Infrastructure to Fuel AI Agents With NVIDIA AI Data Platform About VAST DataVAST Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organizations trust the VAST Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive computing needs. VAST Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of all of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in 2019, VAST Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company in history. For more information, please visit and follow VAST Data on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn. CONTACT: Austin Weedfall VAST Data press@
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Akamai and VAST Data Working to Usher in the Era of Edge AI Inference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced it has entered into an agreement with VAST Data, the AI data platform company, to make data-intensive AI inferencing faster and more efficient. The collaboration will marry Akamai's massive distributed platform with the VAST Data Platform's breakthrough approach to data-intensive computing to integrate data for large, distributed customers that need better local response time and localization for distributed inference. Latency, cost, and scalability are hurdles to deploying AI-powered applications at scale. Unlike training, which is resource-intensive but happens in controlled environments, inference must operate continuously, on-demand, and often with ultra-low latency. Adding VAST Data to the Akamai Cloud aims to lower costs and improve customer experience to help democratize edge AI computing. While many cloud service providers support large-scale centralized AI training, they do not operate inference at the scale and distribution for planetary-scale service. As the world's most distributed cloud, Akamai is uniquely positioned to deliver AI inference at the edge, helping enterprises meet local response time and localization requirements. With VAST, Akamai Cloud users can benefit from consistency and fast, secure access to all of their organization's data, from edge to cloud, via a single global namespace. "With this agreement, Akamai and VAST Data will deliver next-generation AI infrastructure that combines hyperscale performance, security, and efficiency to meet the growing demands of enterprise AI workloads, closer to the digital touchpoint," said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data. "Together, we are providing organizations with an AI-ready data platform that ensures seamless scalability, intelligent automation, and enterprise-grade security for the most demanding AI and inference applications." The agreement with VAST Data helps advance Akamai's vision for a more distributed cloud model at a time when even centralized architectures are beginning to struggle to adapt to the demands of an edge-centric future. About Akamai Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at and or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn. ContactsAkamai Media Relationsakamaipr@ Investor Relationsinvrel@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
Zawya
24-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
VAST Data unveils world's first real-time event streaming engine that unifies transactional and analytical data
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – VAST Data, the AI data platform company, recently unveiled the VAST Event Broker, a breakthrough new capability that allows AI agents to instantly act on incoming data for real-time intelligence and automation. As organizations push the boundaries of AI, the VAST Event Broker exposes a Kafka-compatible API and brings event streaming, seamless analytics, and AI together in a unified, high-performance data platform – removing the constraints of legacy event streaming architectures, and unlocking immediate AI-driven insights. Legacy event streaming has been constrained by rigid architectures, operational complexity, and data silos that separate transactional and analytical workloads. Traditional Kafka implementations, while widely used for data movement, create isolated event data silos that hinder seamless analytics. This fragmentation leads to costly infrastructure sprawl, inefficient data replication, and slow batch ETL processes that delay real-time insights. The VAST Data Platform, which seamlessly combines storage, databases, and virtualized compute engine services into a unified AI operating system, has consolidated transactional, analytical, AI, and real-time streaming workloads by adding the VAST Event Broker to the VAST DataEngine. Made possible by VAST's groundbreaking DASE architecture, this new capability enables real-time analytics, AI/ML pipelines, and event-driven workflows with simplified management, improved observability tools, expanded SQL query capabilities, and superior resilience. 'The launch of the VAST Event Broker marks a fundamental shift in the market for real-time data processing,' said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data. 'By merging event streaming, analytics, and AI into a single platform, VAST is removing decades of data pipeline inefficiencies and event streaming complexity, empowering organizations to detect fraud in milliseconds, correlate intelligence signals globally, act on data-driven insights instantly, and deliver AI-enabled customer experiences. This is the future of real-time intelligence, built for the AI era.' The VAST Event Broker expands the VAST Data Platform ecosystem, which now empowers organizations with: 10x+ Performance & Linear Scalability: Traditional event streaming struggles to scale efficiently, often requiring excessive infrastructure to handle increased workloads. The VAST Event Broker delivers a 10x+ performance advantage over Kafka on like-for-like hardware, with unlimited linear scaling, capable of processing over 500 million messages per second across VAST's largest cluster deployments today. Unlimited Scale and Support for All Data: The VAST DataStore provides an exabyte-scale storage foundation that breaks traditional performance and capacity tradeoffs, allowing files, objects, block, and tables to coexist on a single, cost-efficient flash storage tier. With the VAST Event Broker, as streaming structured or unstructured data is ingested into the system, this new data can be acted on immediately. One Platform for Every Workload: The VAST DataBase integrates transactional and analytical processing, eliminating the need for separate transactional and analytics systems. The VAST Event Broker enriches the VAST DataBase by dynamically activating computation the moment data arrives, transforming raw information into real-time intelligence and action. This seamless integration of event-driven processing ensures that every data point is immediately analyzed, indexed, and made actionable – enabling AI agents and applications to respond instantly, automate decision-making, and drive continuous innovation. Automated Data Processing for All Workloads: The VAST DataEngine automates complex workflows by executing serverless functions directly within the platform, enabling real-time insights and event-driven AI processing. Optimized for AI/ML: With GPU-Direct capabilities, VAST accelerates AI/ML workloads by enabling high-speed, direct data transfers between GPUs and storage, ensuring seamless access to large-scale, diverse datasets. Available in March, the VAST Event Broker enables seamless analytics and reduces AI infrastructure complexity to ensure organizations can process, store, analyze, and act on their data – all from a single, unified platform. About VAST Data VAST Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organizations trust the VAST Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive computing needs. VAST Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of all of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in 2019, VAST Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company in history. For more information, please visit and follow VAST Data on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn. Media Contact vastdata@
