VAST Data

“We don’t just hit the easy button and go with the status quo. We see what’s out there and spend time and effort to architect the best solution for our business needs. It would have been easy to extend support on what we had but we're nerds; we wanted to see what was new in the market.”

“Our R&D teams love the increased speed achieved through S3 transfers and so we expanded its use across our internal network.”

“It will immediately accelerate workflows that currently require heavy offline processing.”

“The ability to manage metadata on-box, with no external queries needed, will be massively useful”

“As we grow our cluster, VAST has terrific dashboards and tools showing bottlenecks and data flows.”

“We recently added another 2PB to our cluster with no issues. VAST has been reliable as we continue to expand it. And we’re excited to see how easy it is to scale as we grow our data platform infrastructure.”

“It’s a robust, high-performance platform that’s easily scalable.”

“VAST initially caught our eye as a more affordable high-performance tier for HPC data management. It was positioned as highly scalable with a solid roadmap and good support. It beat out our existing solution.”

“VAST Data has been a very important partner to us because they provide that kind of infrastructure and they're also among the world's best technologies available in the market.”

“One thing that is important to note is that with VAST, it just works.”

“VAST Data stood out in a crowded field for its ability to unify our sites and prepare us for the future of AI-driven research. The platform not only supports our current CPU-based workloads but also gives us the flexibility and confidence to integrate GPU capabilities as we transition to new weather and climate modeling codes. VAST’s synchronization features, density advantages, and vision for the future were critical in our decision to partner with them.”

“Our confidence in VAST stems from the strength of their team, including the founding and executive members, their extensive experience, and the credibility they’ve brought to the table, the modern VAST architecture was pivotal, particularly with its focus on supporting all relevant open file protocols required for HPC and AI. Understanding VAST’s roadmap, architecture, and core design for scalability was a crucial part of our decision.”

“We understand the market will end up where VAST is going.”

“The modern architecture of VAST was essential to us,”

“Public AI is great for learning, experimentation, and common public use, but corporate use in the EU requires Private AI.”

“Our ambition is to enable European organizations to securely leverage their data for new, value driven use-cases, by connecting relevant data to high-performance computing infrastructure for supporting AI and HPC workloads. These modern use-cases are now in the adoption phase of becoming mainstream in Europe”

“Over the last two years, we’ve seen a significant increase in GPU utilization from our Harbor users – and in that time, we’ve consolidated our file systems to a single VAST namespace, which has helped to ensure 100 percent uptime, improved application load times and provided a consistent, more interactive experience. VAST has helped us to simplify operations while improving performance – accelerating data access, especially for container-heavy AI workloads, maximizing GPU utilization and streamlining AI research pipelines at NCSA.”

“VAST delivered an all-flash solution at a cost that not only allowed us to upgrade to all-flash and eliminate our storage tiers, but also saved us enough to pay for more GPUs to accelerate our research. This combination has enabled us to explore new deep-learning techniques that have unlocked invaluable insights in image reconstruction, image analysis, and image parcellation both today and for years to come.”

“VAST is the only way we can compete with AWS’ Elastic File System. It’s our sling in this David vs. Goliath match up.”

“VAST’s solution has allowed us to provide consistently-predictable broadcast performance and is delivering additional savings in the form of data reduction by efficient deduplication on our video assets.”

“We generate massive data sets for every project we work on. For our 3D and simulation teams, a single frame can require several gigabytes — and we need thousands of frames just for one sequence. Having the infrastructure to control that sprawl and serve more than 300 remote workers who all need low-latency access to that data is critical to our operations. With VAST, smart storage architecture allows us to unleash the power of all-flash without breaking our project budget.”

“As an early adopter of advanced storage systems, we’ve deployed scalable storage architectures to help HHS agencies to pioneer new scientific discoveries and improve public health. As our component Operating Divisions move beyond the hard drive era, software-enabled storage architectures helps us modernize our scientific agenda and enable AI-driven research with the power of flash.”

“For me, this product comes with plenty of features and works as it should.”

“When we talk to the VAST team, they are very knowledgeable. What they say is not marketing speak; it’s true. They tell us ‘You can do that.’ We then try it and it works.”

“We found the unified namespace for S3 to be an outstanding concept. We want to explore and offer this to our users.”