VAST Data has made a series of AI-focused announcements, including the launch of a new global AI initiative to accelerate AI adoption and technology pioneered with NVIDIA. Early participants of the initiative include NVIDIA, Deloitte, and Cisco and the group will provide AI learning opportunities through labs, vendor showcases, and research.
VAST Data Founds Cosmos
VAST Data has founded Cosmos, a tech community with a mission to simplify and accelerate AI adoption, exploration and discovery.
VAST Data, NVIDIA, xAI, Supermicro, Deloitte, WWT, Cisco, CoreWeave, Core42, NEA, Impetus, Run:AI, Dremio, and others will initially make-up the group and invite others to participate.
Cosmos aims to streamline AI adoption for its members by offering a comprehensive, interconnected ecosystem that facilitates conversation, shares use cases and provides learning opportunities through labs, vendor showcases, and general AI research news. Cosmos helps community members navigate the available options and implement the most effective solutions for their unique needs.
VAST Data Unveils Groundbreaking VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA
VAST Data and NVIDIA have launched InsightEngine, the world’s first solution to securely ingest, process, and retrieve all enterprise data (files, objects, tables, and streams) in real time.
As the first application workflow to run on the VAST Data Platform, VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA accelerates business insights by capturing, embedding, and retrieving real-time data flows, making enterprise data instantly usable for AI-driven decision-making.
The VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA represents a significant advancement in real-time AI capabilities within the enterprise environment by automating AI application workflows throughout the data pipeline. Built on the powerful VAST Data Platform, this innovation will help transform the landscape of enterprise AI by integrating massive-scale data processing, high-speed vector search, and robust security.
VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA will be generally available in early 2025.
AST Data and Equinix Collaborate to Provide a Dedicated, Secure AI Infrastructure Solution
This newly announced collaboration with Equinix leverages the VAST Data Platform for NVIDIA DGX systems and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform deployed in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) high-performance data centres.
This collaboration provides the infrastructure foundation of an AI development platform to help customers develop and implement generative AI applications by modernising and leveraging enterprise data for AI workloads without compromising data security or infrastructure ease of use.
The solution enables quick generative AI information retrieval while meeting data security and compliance requirements. Certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, the VAST Data Platform offers high-performance data access and allows users to achieve parallel performance and scale up to exabyte levels.
