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Scoop
3 days ago
- Business
- Scoop
VAST Data Collaborates With SK Telecom To Optimise Korea's Largest AI Infrastructure Based On NVIDIA Supercomputers
VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a partnership with SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea's leading telecommunications provider that's transforming itself into an AI company. To deploy its advanced AI platform on SKT's new sovereign AI infrastructure powered by the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Named the Haein Cluster, this AI infrastructure, designed initially for GPUaaS has been selected for the Ministry of Science and ICT's 'AI Computing Resource Utilisation Enhancement (GPU Rental Support) Program' in Korea, and will be actively used for the development of national AI foundation models. By combining SKT's advanced network and data centre infrastructure with the VAST AI OS as a key component of its sovereign AI cloud, SKT is creating a fully virtualised GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) environment that meets the growing national demand for AI model development and deployment, all within South Korea's borders. Traditional AI infrastructure built on bare-metal environments often requires days or even weeks to provision new workloads, a major bottleneck for developers and enterprises. SKT has eliminated this delay by deploying a virtualised AI infrastructure stack – Petasus AI Cloud – now integrated with VAST Data which can spin up GPU environments in as little as 10 minutes, all while preserving near bare-metal performance. The Petasus AI Cloud architecture combines VAST's disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) platform on NVIDIA HGX server architecture built by Supermicro, enabling a high-throughput, secure, and multi-tenant environment that supports both AI training and inference at scale. 'Supermicro supports SK Telecom's vision of a national AI infrastructure and is proud to collaborate with VAST Data on deploying its AI Operating System and with NVIDIA Blackwell platforms to make this a reality,' saidCenly Chen, Supermicro's Chief Growth Officer. 'VAST Data's unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from legacy bare-metal deployments to a fully virtualised, production-grade AI cloud,' said DK Lee, Vice President, and Head of the AI DC Lab at SK Telecom. 'The VAST AI OS powers the performance, simplicity, and flexibility needed to support the next generation of sovereign AI workloads, and gives us the confidence to scale fast and securely. With VAST, we're enabling a GPUaaS platform that meets the exacting needs of government, research, and enterprise AI customers in South Korea.' By integrating directly with SKT's Petasus AI Cloud, the VAST AI Operating System provides: Sovereign-Grade Infrastructure Control: Enables AI services entirely within national borders. Virtualisation Without Compromise: GPU environments provision in under 10 minutes, matching bare-metal performance. Secure, Multi-Tenant AI Services: Isolates workloads with data privacy and performance guarantees. Unified Pipeline for Training and Inference: Simplifies the full lifecycle of AI development and deployment. Protocol Flexibility, Zero Friction: Native multi-protocol access with no need for client-side gateways or proprietary bloat. Enterprise-Grade Uptime with Lean Ops: Supports carrier-grade resilience with minimal overhead. Elastic GPUaaS at National Scale: Designed to meet growing demand from public and private sector AI innovators. Dynamic Resource Allocation: Automatically provisions and isolates GPU and storage resources, including their networking fabrics, to match each tenant's specific requirements. 'SK Telecom is defining the future of national-scale AI infrastructure, and VAST is proud to support their vision,' commented Sunil Chavan, Vice President, APAC, VAST Data. 'From our earliest conversations, it was clear that SKT needed cutting-edge infrastructure to match the speed and complexity of enterprise-grade uptime and nation-state inference and training. By eliminating traditional bottlenecks around data movement, provisioning, and security, VAST is enabling SKT to launch a sovereign and secure AI infrastructure that offers speed and flexibility at scale for Korea.' By combining NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms with VAST's AI Operating System, SKT has built its Petasus AI Cloud as an elastic, sovereign infrastructure powered by next-generation superchips such as NVIDIA Blackwell. This deployment demonstrates how telecom providers are building sovereign AI infrastructure for nations that balance speed, compliance, control, and cost, with VAST's AI OS at the heart of this transformation. 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 organisations 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 trade-offs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI. Learn more at and follow VAST Data on LinkedIn, YouTube and X.
Web Release
19-06-2025
- Business
- Web Release
VAST Data Powers Smarter, Evolving AI Agents with NVIDIA Data Flywheel
VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, announced today that it is delivering a complete data and compute platform that enables AI intelligence to continuously evolve. The VAST AI OS, combined with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which includes NeMo microservices that power a data flywheel for continuous model improvement, creates a unified environment where AI pipelines can constantly learn, adapt, and improve. This reference workflow provides a self-optimizing foundation for scalable AI, laying the groundwork for billions of intelligent agents to fine-tune and evolve from their data and experiences. This solution provides enterprises with a converged software platform for data management, database services, and AI compute orchestration. Additionally, VAST AI OS AgentEngine uniquely shares feedback by providing the critical capability to map the intricate web of agent-data interactions through production logs. This granular traceability allows the flywheel to dissect these multi-step interactions, accurately identifying which specific elements require adjustment to enhance outcomes, accelerating model performance and accuracy at scale. 'AI-powered businesses need thinking machines designed for a future where billions of AI agents learn from their own experiences, fine-tune in real time, and create new possibilities through collaboration,' said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data. 'By unifying NVIDIA's AI software and hardware technologies within the core of the VAST AI Operating System, we are giving customers the foundation to operationalize continuous improvements in AI intelligence at scale, with the security, governance, and service delivery tools required to manage these intelligent agents and the data they rely upon.' As AI moves from isolated projects to always-on infrastructure, businesses need systems that evolve in real time with every data point while addressing new security and governance challenges around fine-tuned models, agent interactions, and decentralized data pipelines. This collaboration makes it possible to run continuous, automated AI pipelines – from ingestion to inference to retraining – all managed within the VAST AI Operating System. Among the first to embrace this strategy is CACEIS, one of Europe's largest asset servicing firms. In collaboration with VAST and NVIDIA, CACEIS is exploring a real-time AI platform concept designed to securely capture, transcribe, and analyze 100% of client meetings. The vision is for the system to instantly generate meeting minutes, surface actionable insights, and deliver anonymized trend data — all seamlessly integrated into their sovereign CRM. With an end-to-end security model at its foundation, the platform is being designed to safeguard client privacy and data integrity while continuously evolving through every interaction. 'AI will be a game-changer, highlighting trends in current needs by analysing meeting reports so we can better serve clients,' said Arnaud Misset, Chief Digital Officer, CACEIS. Using VAST's AgentEngine that leverages the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint, CACEIS is developing a platform proof of concept that would enable AI agents to assist relationship managers in real time and help uncover new business opportunities. Built by NVIDIA NeMo microservices and the NVIDIA data flywheel blueprint, the envisioned CACEIS AI factory would continuously capture data and insights from every customer interaction. These feedback loops are intended to drive ongoing model refinement and training, allowing the system to improve and adapt with each meeting. As AI agents learn from one another and from human counterparts, this concept sets the stage for new ideas, collective intelligence, and enterprise-wide knowledge sharing to take shape. This capability was showcased during NVIDIA's Kari Briski's presentation at GTC Europe in Paris. Watch the demo replay here. This collaboration signals a broader shift in enterprise AI, from one-size-fits-all models to dynamic ecosystems of intelligent agents that continuously fine-tune, collaborate, and generate new ideas from their own data and interactions. Managing these agents at scale requires fine-grained security, governance, and access controls to ensure they operate safely and within defined boundaries. It also demands scalable, dynamic infrastructure capable of handling the varied and unpredictable demands of AI agents as they interact with diverse data tools and services. The VAST AI Operating System provides this real-time data infrastructure, along with compute orchestration, QoS tools that enforce fairness as different agents run within the environment, and a security framework to refine intelligence and operationalize AI innovation in a secure, scalable, and adaptive system. 'Data flywheels leverage each interaction with an AI agent to continuously improve system intelligence and value,' said Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI Software at NVIDIA. 'CACEIS is an exemplary pioneer with a vision of building an agentic AI data flywheel with NVIDIA and VAST to supercharge productivity for financial services in Europe.' Additional Resources: ? VAST + NVIDIA ? DEMO: AI Agents Unlocked: CACEIS Redefines Client Conversations With VAST Data and NVIDIA ? NVIDIA BLOG: Chat with Your Enterprise Data: Open-Source AI-Q NVIDIA Blueprint Puts Institutional Knowledge at Your Fingertips ? NVIDIA BLOG: Sovereign AI Agents Think Local, Act Global With NVIDIA AI Factories ? NVIDIA BLOG: Build Efficient AI Agents Through Model Distillation With NVIDIA's Data Flywheel Blueprint
TECHx
16-06-2025
- Business
- TECHx
VAST Data Unveils AI OS to Power Evolving AI Agents
Home » Tech Value Chain » Global Brands » VAST Data Unveils AI OS to Power Evolving AI Agents VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced a complete data and compute platform that enables continuous AI intelligence evolution. The VAST AI OS, integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NeMo microservices, powers a self-optimizing AI flywheel. This creates a unified environment where AI pipelines can learn, adapt, and improve at scale. The platform delivers: A converged software solution for data management, database services, and AI compute orchestration. AgentEngine, a tool offering feedback by mapping complex agent-data interactions through production logs. This approach allows enterprises to identify and adjust key performance elements, boosting model accuracy and learning speed. Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data, said the solution supports businesses building 'thinking machines' that fine-tune in real time and collaborate to generate new outcomes. By integrating NVIDIA's software and hardware within the VAST AI OS, the company enables customers to manage AI agents and data with security, governance, and service tools. As AI moves into real-time, always-on infrastructure, enterprises require systems that evolve with each data point while addressing security and governance for decentralized pipelines and agent interactions. This collaboration enables automated AI workflows from ingestion to inference and retraining within the VAST AI Operating System. CACEIS, one of Europe's largest asset servicing firms, is among the first adopters. In partnership with VAST and NVIDIA, it is exploring a real-time AI platform that: Captures and analyzes 100% of client meetings. Instantly generates meeting minutes and insights. Integrates anonymized data into a secure CRM. The platform features an end-to-end security model to protect privacy and ensure data integrity. CACEIS is also using VAST's AgentEngine with NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint to develop AI agents that support relationship managers and reveal business opportunities. These agents will use NeMo microservices to refine models through continuous feedback and shared intelligence. Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI Software at NVIDIA, showcased this capability at GTC Europe in Paris. The demo highlighted the role of data flywheels in enhancing system intelligence. Briski stated that CACEIS is a pioneer in building agentic AI systems with NVIDIA and VAST to boost productivity in financial services. VAST Data's solution represents a shift from static models to dynamic AI ecosystems. These systems require scalable infrastructure and strict governance to support evolving intelligent agents across enterprise environments.
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.
