VAST Data Platform Now Manages Files, Objects, Blocks, Tables, and Streaming Data
VAST Data has announced new capabilities that fulfill its mission to provide a truly unified data platform for the AI era. Available next month, VAST has added Block storage functionality, completing the vision for the VAST DataStore as a universal, multiprotocol storage platform.
“Our vision for the VAST Data Platform was always to enable organizations to process, analyze, and act on data in real-time, empowering them to scale effortlessly, reduce their infrastructure costs, and innovate faster by unifying AI data infrastructure within a single, powerful platform.”
Aaron Chaisson, Vice President, Product & Solutions Marketing at VAST Data.
Key Features:
- Unified Data Management: The VAST Data Platform now seamlessly combines storage, databases, and virtualized compute engine services into a unified AI operating system. It is the only exascale solution capable of linearly scaling parallel data access performance for every type of data – file, object, block, table, and streaming data – for all data workloads.
- Seamless Integration: The platform supports environments such as VMware, Hyper-V, and other hypervisors, with features like multi-tenancy and QoS to isolate workloads and guarantee performance.
- Optimized for Kubernetes: The addition of Block storage enables persistent storage for containerized workloads, supporting transactional databases and stateful microservices.
- Unified Infrastructure: The platform consolidates virtualized and containerized workloads onto a single architecture, reducing operational overhead and ensuring optimal performance.
- Boot from SAN: This feature streamlines server deployment and management, enhancing disaster recovery and enabling rapid provisioning of new servers.
Industry Impact: According to Gartner®, multiprotocol storage platforms are designed to support multiple storage access protocols, addressing the growing needs of businesses and ensuring seamless integration with diverse IT environments.
Customer Benefits: By incorporating Block storage, VAST has transformed data management for large-scale enterprises, consolidating siloed infrastructure into one platform with a full suite of enterprise data services such as snapshots, multi-tenancy, QoS, encryption, and granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
These new features allow VAST to meet the demands of modern enterprise IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to accelerate their journey to real-time insights and seamless AI adoption. Discover more about VAST Data’s unified AI data platform at VASTData.com.
