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Web Release
24-05-2025
- Business
- Web Release
VAST Data Unveils the Operating System for the Thinking Machine
VAST Data, today announced the result of nearly a decade of relentless innovation with the unveiling of the VAST AI Operating System, a revolutionary platform purpose-built to fuel the next wave of AI breakthroughs. Since the beginning of computing, every major technological revolution has been defined by the emergence of a new operating system. From the PC, to mobile, to the cloud – a unified software layer has abstracted complexity, democratized the use of new hardware, and reshaped how the world computes, communicates and innovates. Now, as AI redefines the fabric of business and society, the industry again finds itself at the dawn of a new computing paradigm – one where trillions of intelligent agents will reason, communicate, and act across a global grid of millions of GPUs that are woven across edge deployments, AI factories and cloud data centers. To make this world accessible, programmable, and operational at extreme scale, a new generation of intelligent systems requires a new software foundation. This is the moment VAST Data was built for. The launch of the VAST AI Operating System comes as the company has reached a historic milestone: the fastest path to $2 billion in cumulative bookings of any data company in history. With nearly 5x year-over-year growth in the first quarter of this year compared to last, and a cashflow-positive business model, VAST's hypergrowth reflects the market's demand for an operating system purpose-built to operationalize AI at unprecedented scale. The VAST AI Operating System is the product of nearly ten years of engineering toward a single purpose: to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale. Developed from a clean sheet of paper, the platform is built on VAST's groundbreaking Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture – making it possible to completely parallelize AI and analytics workloads, federate clusters into a unified computing and data cloud and then feed new AI workloads with near-infinite amounts of data from one fast and affordable tier of storage. Today, DASE clusters support over 1 million GPUs around the world in many of the world's most data intensive computing centers. The scope of the AI OS is broad and will consolidate disparate legacy IT technologies into one simple and modern offering designed to democratize AI computing. What VAST was inventing from the start was conceived not as a collection of features, but as an entirely new computing substrate — one that unifies data, compute, messaging, and reasoning. A system built to capture data from the natural world at extreme scale, enrich it with AI-driven context in real time, and drive agentic workflows. Today, that invention takes shape as the VAST AI Operating System…a continuation of VAST's pursuit toward building a Thinking Machine. 'This isn't a product release — it's a milestone in the evolution of computing,' said Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data. 'We've spent the past decade reimagining how data and intelligence converge. Today, we're proud to unveil the AI Operating System for a world that is no longer built around applications — but around agents.' The AI Operating System consists of every aspect of a distributed system to run AI at global scale: a kernel to run platform services on from private to public cloud, a runtime to deploy AI agents with, eventing infrastructure for real-time event processing, messaging infrastructure, and a distributed file and database storage system that can be used for real-time data capture and analytics. Introducing the VAST AgentEngine This year, AI models and agents now come to life within the VAST AI Operating System. In 2024, VAST previewed the VAST InsightEngine – a service that extracts context from unstructured data using AI embedding tools. If the VAST InsightEngine prepares data for AI using AI, VAST AgentEngine is how AI now comes to life with data – an auto-scaling AI agent deployment runtime that equips users with a low-code environment to build intelligent workflows, select reasoning models, define agent tools, and operationalize reasoning. The AgentEngine features a new AI agent tool server that provides support for agents to invoke data, metadata, functions, web search or other agents using them as MCP-compatible tools. AgentEngine allows agents to assume multiple personas with different purpose and security credentials, and provides secure, real-time access to different tools. The platform's scheduler and fault-tolerant queuing mechanisms also ensure agent resilience against machine or service failure. Finally, AgentEngine introduces massively-scalable agentic workflow observability – with VAST's approach to parallel, distributed tracing – the VAST AI OS makes it simple for developers to enjoy a unified and simple view into massively-scaled and complex agentic pipelines. Just as operating systems ship with pre-built utilities, the VAST AgentEngine will feature a set of open-source Agents that VAST will release, one per month, to help accelerate the journey to AI computing. Some personal assistants will be tailored to industry use cases, whereas others will be designed for general purpose use. Examples include: ? A reasoning chatbot, powered by all of an organization's VAST data ? A data engineering agent to curate data automatically ? A prompt engineer to help optimize AI workflow inputs ? An agent agent, to automate the deployment, evaluation and improvement of agents ? A compliance agent, to enforce data and activity level regulatory compliance ? An editor agent, to create rich media content ? A life sciences researcher, to assist with bioinformatic discovery In the spirit of enabling organizations to build and build fast on the VAST AI Operating System, VAST Data will be hosting VAST Forward, a series of global workshops, both in-person and online, throughout the year. These workshops will include training on components of the Operating System and sessions on how to develop on the platform. Additional Resources: ? VIDEO: Introducing the VAST AI Operating System with Renen Hallak ? VIDEO: Inside the VAST AI OS with Jeff Denworth ? DEMO: The VAST AI OS Demo & Walkthrough with Andy Pernsteiner ? BLOG: The Grand Unification Theory of AI Infrastructure: Part II, by Jeff Denworth ? BLOG: Introducing AgentEngine, by Aaron Chaisson ? EVENTS: Register to join us on the VAST Forward Global World Tour
Mid East Info
23-05-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
VAST Data Unveils the Operating System for the Thinking Machine - Middle East Business News and Information
Organizations can now easily deploy, operate and observe agentic pipelines; leverage pre-built agents provided by VAST Data; connect, collaborate and learn to program workflows at global events Dubai, United Arab Emirates – May, 2025 – VAST Data, today announced the result of nearly a decade of relentless innovation with the unveiling of the VAST AI Operating System, a revolutionary platform purpose-built to fuel the next wave of AI breakthroughs. Since the beginning of computing, every major technological revolution has been defined by the emergence of a new operating system. From the PC, to mobile, to the cloud – a unified software layer has abstracted complexity, democratized the use of new hardware, and reshaped how the world computes, communicates and innovates. Now, as AI redefines the fabric of business and society, the industry again finds itself at the dawn of a new computing paradigm – one where trillions of intelligent agents will reason, communicate, and act across a global grid of millions of GPUs that are woven across edge deployments, AI factories and cloud data centers. To make this world accessible, programmable, and operational at extreme scale, a new generation of intelligent systems requires a new software foundation. This is the moment VAST Data was built for. The launch of the VAST AI Operating System comes as the company has reached a historic milestone: the fastest path to $2 billion in cumulative bookings of any data company in history. With nearly 5x year-over-year growth in the first quarter of this year compared to last, and a cashflow-positive business model, VAST's hypergrowth reflects the market's demand for an operating system purpose-built to operationalize AI at unprecedented scale. The VAST AI Operating System is the product of nearly ten years of engineering toward a single purpose: to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale. Developed from a clean sheet of paper, the platform is built on VAST's groundbreaking Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture – making it possible to completely parallelize AI and analytics workloads, federate clusters into a unified computing and data cloud and then feed new AI workloads with near-infinite amounts of data from one fast and affordable tier of storage. Today, DASE clusters support over 1 million GPUs around the world in many of the world's most data intensive computing centers. The scope of the AI OS is broad and will consolidate disparate legacy IT technologies into one simple and modern offering designed to democratize AI computing. What VAST was inventing from the start was conceived not as a collection of features, but as an entirely new computing substrate — one that unifies data, compute, messaging, and reasoning. A system built to capture data from the natural world at extreme scale, enrich it with AI-driven context in real time, and drive agentic workflows. Today, that invention takes shape as the VAST AI Operating System…a continuation of VAST's pursuit toward building a Thinking Machine. 'This isn't a product release — it's a milestone in the evolution of computing,' said Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data. 'We've spent the past decade reimagining how data and intelligence converge. Today, we're proud to unveil the AI Operating System for a world that is no longer built around applications — but around agents.' The AI Operating System consists of every aspect of a distributed system to run AI at global scale: a kernel to run platform services on from private to public cloud, a runtime to deploy AI agents with, eventing infrastructure for real-time event processing, messaging infrastructure, and a distributed file and database storage system that can be used for real-time data capture and analytics. Introducing the VAST AgentEngine: This year, AI models and agents now come to life within the VAST AI Operating System. In 2024, VAST previewed the VAST InsightEngine – a service that extracts context from unstructured data using AI embedding tools. If the VAST InsightEngine prepares data for AI using AI, VAST AgentEngine is how AI now comes to life with data – an auto-scaling AI agent deployment runtime that equips users with a low-code environment to build intelligent workflows, select reasoning models, define agent tools, and operationalize reasoning. The AgentEngine features a new AI agent tool server that provides support for agents to invoke data, metadata, functions, web search or other agents using them as MCP-compatible tools. AgentEngine allows agents to assume multiple personas with different purpose and security credentials, and provides secure, real-time access to different tools. The platform's scheduler and fault-tolerant queuing mechanisms also ensure agent resilience against machine or service failure. Finally, AgentEngine introduces massively-scalable agentic workflow observability – with VAST's approach to parallel, distributed tracing – the VAST AI OS makes it simple for developers to enjoy a unified and simple view into massively-scaled and complex agentic pipelines. Just as operating systems ship with pre-built utilities, the VAST AgentEngine will feature a set of open-source Agents that VAST will release, one per month, to help accelerate the journey to AI computing. Some personal assistants will be tailored to industry use cases, whereas others will be designed for general purpose use. Examples include: A reasoning chatbot, powered by all of an organization's VAST data A data engineering agent to curate data automatically A prompt engineer to help optimize AI workflow inputs An agent agent, to automate the deployment, evaluation and improvement of agents A compliance agent, to enforce data and activity level regulatory compliance An editor agent, to create rich media content A life sciences researcher, to assist with bioinformatic discovery In the spirit of enabling organizations to build and build fast on the VAST AI Operating System, VAST Data will be hosting VAST Forward , a series of global workshops, both in-person and online, throughout the year. These workshops will include training on components of the Operating System and sessions on how to develop on the platform. 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.
Channel Post MEA
22-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
VAST Data Unveils AI Operating System
VAST Data has announced the result of nearly a decade of relentless innovation with the unveiling of the VAST AI Operating System, a revolutionary platform purpose-built to fuel the next wave of AI breakthroughs. Since the beginning of computing, every major technological revolution has been defined by the emergence of a new operating system. From the PC, to mobile, to the cloud – a unified software layer has abstracted complexity, democratized the use of new hardware, and reshaped how the world computes, communicates and innovates. Now, as AI redefines the fabric of business and society, the industry again finds itself at the dawn of a new computing paradigm – one where trillions of intelligent agents will reason, communicate, and act across a global grid of millions of GPUs that are woven across edge deployments, AI factories and cloud data centers. To make this world accessible, programmable, and operational at extreme scale, a new generation of intelligent systems requires a new software foundation. This is the moment VAST Data was built for. The launch of the VAST AI Operating System comes as the company has reached a historic milestone: the fastest path to $2 billion in cumulative bookings of any data company in history. With nearly 5x year-over-year growth in the first quarter of this year compared to last, and a cashflow-positive business model, VAST's hypergrowth reflects the market's demand for an operating system purpose-built to operationalize AI at unprecedented scale. The VAST AI Operating System is the product of nearly ten years of engineering toward a single purpose: to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale. Developed from a clean sheet of paper, the platform is built on VAST's groundbreaking Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture – making it possible to completely parallelize AI and analytics workloads, federate clusters into a unified computing and data cloud and then feed new AI workloads with near-infinite amounts of data from one fast and affordable tier of storage. Today, DASE clusters support over 1 million GPUs around the world in many of the world's most data intensive computing centers. The scope of the AI OS is broad and will consolidate disparate legacy IT technologies into one simple and modern offering designed to democratize AI computing. What VAST was inventing from the start was conceived not as a collection of features, but as an entirely new computing substrate — one that unifies data, compute, messaging, and reasoning. A system built to capture data from the natural world at extreme scale, enrich it with AI-driven context in real time, and drive agentic workflows. Today, that invention takes shape as the VAST AI Operating System…a continuation of VAST's pursuit toward building a Thinking Machine. 'This isn't a product release — it's a milestone in the evolution of computing,' said Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data. 'We've spent the past decade reimagining how data and intelligence converge. Today, we're proud to unveil the AI Operating System for a world that is no longer built around applications — but around agents.' The AI Operating System consists of every aspect of a distributed system to run AI at global scale: a kernel to run platform services on from private to public cloud, a runtime to deploy AI agents with, eventing infrastructure for real-time event processing, messaging infrastructure, and a distributed file and database storage system that can be used for real-time data capture and analytics. Introducing the VAST AgentEngine This year, AI models and agents now come to life within the VAST AI Operating System. In 2024, VAST previewed the VAST InsightEngine – a service that extracts context from unstructured data using AI embedding tools. If the VAST InsightEngine prepares data for AI using AI, VAST AgentEngine is how AI now comes to life with data – an auto-scaling AI agent deployment runtime that equips users with a low-code environment to build intelligent workflows, select reasoning models, define agent tools, and operationalize reasoning. The AgentEngine features a new AI agent tool server that provides support for agents to invoke data, metadata, functions, web search or other agents using them as MCP-compatible tools. AgentEngine allows agents to assume multiple personas with different purpose and security credentials, and provides secure, real-time access to different tools. The platform's scheduler and fault-tolerant queuing mechanisms also ensure agent resilience against machine or service failure. Finally, AgentEngine introduces massively-scalable agentic workflow observability – with VAST's approach to parallel, distributed tracing – the VAST AI OS makes it simple for developers to enjoy a unified and simple view into massively-scaled and complex agentic pipelines. Just as operating systems ship with pre-built utilities, the VAST AgentEngine will feature a set of open-source Agents that VAST will release, one per month, to help accelerate the journey to AI computing. Some personal assistants will be tailored to industry use cases, whereas others will be designed for general purpose use. Examples include: A reasoning chatbot, powered by all of an organization's VAST data A data engineering agent to curate data automatically A prompt engineer to help optimize AI workflow inputs An agent agent, to automate the deployment, evaluation and improvement of agents A compliance agent, to enforce data and activity level regulatory compliance An editor agent, to create rich media content A life sciences researcher, to assist with bioinformatic discovery In the spirit of enabling organizations to build and build fast on the VAST AI Operating System, VAST Data will be hosting VAST Forward, a series of global workshops, both in-person and online, throughout the year. These workshops will include training on components of the Operating System and sessions on how to develop on the platform. 0 0
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
