VAST Data Revolutionizes Enterprise AI with VAST InSightEngine and Secure Infrastructure Solutions

VAST Data Unveils Groundbreaking VAST InsightEngine With NVIDIA To Unlock Insigh...

AUCKLAND - 2 October 2024 - VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, 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. With the increasing deployment of inference using real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-enhanced LLMs, organisations face significant, complex data infrastructure challenges in scaling AI to effectively process and extract insights from massive datasets. While hundreds of companies focus on training LLMs, tens of thousands will deploy RAG. This creates new requirements for infrastructure that can classify and search on unstructured and structured datasets as well as new semantic approaches, such as vector and knowledge graphs, with the need for unprecedented speed, scale, simplicity and security. VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA introduces the first unified system that can handle all of the data functions natively to simplify and deliver real-time AI-powered insights at scale. The VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA operates NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform, natively within the VAST Data Platform, embedding the semantic meaning of incoming data using advanced models powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. The vector and graph embeddings are then stored in the VAST DataBase within milliseconds after the data is captured to ensure that any new file, object, table or streaming data is instantly ready for advanced AI retrieval and inference operations. "With the VAST Data Platform's unique architecture, embedded with NVIDIA NIM, we're making it simple for organisations to extract insights from their data in real-time," said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder at VAST Data. "By unifying all elements of the AI retrieval pipeline into an enterprise data foundation, VAST Data InsightEngine with NVIDIA is the industry's first solution to provide a universal view into all of an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to achieve advanced AI-enabled decision-making." "Generative AI with RAG capabilities has transformed how enterprises can use their data," said Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA. "Integrating NVIDIA NIM into VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA helps enterprises more securely and efficiently access data at any scale to quickly convert it into actionable insights." VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA features powerful innovations that set it apart from existing RAG solutions in the market: 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 seamlessly integrating massive-scale data processing, high-speed vector search, and robust security. VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA will be generally available in early 2025. To learn more about VAST InsightEngine and VAST's collaboration with NVIDIA, visit: https://www.vastdata.com/platform/insightengine-with-nvidia

VAST Data & Equinix Collaboration Provide Dedicated, Secure AI Infrastructure So...

AUCKLAND - 2 October 2024 - VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced a new collaboration with Equinix that 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 on data security or infrastructure ease of use. In today's fast-moving market, activating enterprise data to unlock new insights requires new technologies and presents new challenges that involve complex, orchestrated workflows. To address these challenges and simplify the process for enterprises, this collaboration leverages a global multi-cloud network connected through private network access to cloud services and enterprise providers. This 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 enables users to achieve parallel performance and scale up to exabyte levels. "Equinix is helping customers access the benefits of AI by providing a fully managed global platform in close proximity to their data through private, high-bandwidth interconnections to cloud providers," said Jon Lin, EVP & General Manager, Data Centre Services at Equinix. "Enterprises seek trusted, secure solutions to safeguard their most critical AI training data. The VAST Data Platform feeds and powers that AI infrastructure, providing customers with a simple, secure and scalable solution they can use to unlock the power of generative AI and deep learning." Key benefits of this collaboration include: "By combining supercomputing services with VAST's AI-native offering for scalable and secure data services deployed in Equinix data centres, we're setting a new standard in delivering high-performance, scalable, simple and sustainable accelerated computing infrastructure," said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. "Through this collaboration, customers now have access to a data platform that was designed from the ground up for every demanding aspect of an AI pipeline. Working with Equinix and NVIDIA, we are building the foundation for accelerated computing with a secure, enterprise grade accelerated data platform."