Megaport has selected VAST Data’s AI Operating System to support what it says is the next phase of its global automated infrastructure platform, as it expands from network connectivity into compute and GPU services following its acquisition of Latitude.sh.
In a statement, the Brisbane-headquartered company said the arrangement will combine its programmable connectivity across more than 1,100 data centres with Latitude.sh’s automated bare-metal compute and GPU services, alongside VAST’s enterprise data services. The companies said the aim is to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads across distributed, hybrid and multicloud environments.
The announcement comes as organisations push AI workloads into production and face growing complexity in running systems across multiple clouds and locations. Megaport and VAST argued that network, compute and data services are often managed separately, creating operational fragmentation that can slow deployment and complicate governance.
“Enterprises are no longer thinking about networking, compute and data as separate decisions,” said Michael van Rooyen, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation at Megaport. “They want infrastructure that is automated, global and flexible enough to support what AI requires next. VAST gives us one software layer to support enterprise data services across both Megaport and Latitude.sh, allowing us to expand beyond connectivity into the services layer customers need to build and scale modern AI workloads, with fewer operational silos and a faster path from distributed infrastructure to production AI.”
VAST said its DataSpace offering will extend Megaport’s platform with a global namespace so customers can access and manage data across on-premises environments, public clouds, “neoclouds” and edge locations without creating new silos or additional copies.
“AI does not scale on infrastructure that is powerful in pieces but fragmented in practice,” said Phil Manez, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at VAST Data. “The next era will be built on global fabrics that connect data, compute and services wherever customers need them. Megaport has built one of the most important connectivity platforms in the world, and with the VAST AI Operating System, that platform can become a data-aware foundation for production AI, helping infrastructure, compute and governed data operate together.”
