Break down silos, eliminate trade‑offs, and accelerate AI adoption with a universal data platform that scales from petabytes to exabytes without compromise.
VAST DataStore
A Universal Data Platform Engineered for the AI Era
Eliminate inefficient storage tiers with a universal data store built for real-time analytics, HPC, and AI workloads. Scale from terabytes to exabytes with predictable performance and no trade-offs.
Legacy Challenges
The Limits of Tiered Storage in the AI Era
Legacy storage architectures force artificial trade-offs between scale, speed, and simplicity and can’t meet stringent AI price-performance demands. VAST replaces tiers with a single universal, AI-optimized platform.
High Latency
Tiered storage relies on HDDs and caching layers, which introduce latency and unpredictability. VAST delivers consistently high performance with an all-flash data platform.
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Core Capabilities
The Universal Data Store for Enterprise AI
VAST DataStore consolidates enterprise data into a universal platform that simplifies management, accelerates AI adoption, and eliminates legacy storage trade‑offs
DASE Architecture for Scale & Speed
VAST’s Disaggregated, Shared‑Everything (DASE) architecture separates compute from storage, eliminating east-west bottlenecks. Every node sees the full dataset, delivering linear scaling, single‑ms latency, and exabyte‑level performance for AI and enterprise workloads.Why DASE Matters
Universal Data Store
Eliminate silos based on protocol. A truly universal data store allows your users, and applications, access all of your data through the protocols they’re most comfortable enough without moving data and creating copies.Get Multiprotocol Support
Edge‑to‑Cloud Global Namespace
A single namespace spans edge, core, and cloud. Decentralized transaction management delivers global consistency with local performance, while multi‑protocol support ensures seamless integration across environments.Learn the Foundation
Flash Economics & Efficiency
Advanced erasure coding, similarity‑based data reduction, and QLC flash management bring the cost of flash in line with HDDs. Together these innovations deliver long‑term efficiency, resilience, and sustainability without compromising performance.Our Data Reduction Economics
AI-Optimized Infrastructure
All‑flash performance and unified access fuel every stage of the AI data pipeline, from preparation to training and inference. VAST delivers predictable throughput at exabyte scale, eliminating duplication and tiering delays while keeping GPUs fully utilized.Unlock Simplified ManagementProduct Benefits
Unlock the Full Value of Enterprise Data
Accelerate Every Workflow with Universal All-Flash Speed
Eliminate tiering delays and give every workload NVMe performance, whether it’s AI training, analytics, or backup/restore.
Scale Without Cost and Complexity
Expand seamlessly as data grows, without re-architecting or adding specialized nodes. Compute and storage scale independently, letting you grow capacity or performance as needed, without disruptive refreshes. On average, customers experience 3:1 data reduction.
Feature Details
A Next-Gen Architecture Designed for the Enterprise
VAST DataStore delivers a flash-based architecture that provides global access and scales from petabytes to exabytes to power AI, analytics, and enterprise workloads.
Multiprotocol by Design
Enterprise by Nature
Enterprise by Design
Infrastructure Built for Scale & Efficiency
SMB 2.1, 3
Support enterprise workload demands with multi‑channel access that ensures non‑disruptive operation and high performance. VAST DataStore's SMB implementation was designed to take full advantage of the DASE architecture so your most demanding applications run faster and smoother than ever.
S3
Leverage high-performance object storage for modern data analytics and massive scale workloads. VAST DataStore’s S3-compatible interface delivers exabyte-scale throughput with low latency.
Container Plugins
Programmatically create persistent or ephemeral K8S volumes. VAST DataStore’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver provides a standardized interface that Kubernetes clusters can use to provision persistent volumes.
GPUDirect Support
Ensure predictable, high‑performance data access for machine‑learning and deep‑learning applications with NVIDIA® GPUDirect® Storage integration.
Resources
Resources to Keep You Moving Forward
Solution Brief
The VAST DataStore for Media and Broadcast
VAST DataStore eliminates the complex mix of storage systems that media and broadcast studios typically deploy by consolidating production, rendering, and archive requirements into a single all-flash platform—delivering the performance needed for 4K/8K workflows with the economics of traditional archive storage, all at exabyte scale.
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The VAST DataStore Explained | Build Beyond
Learn how VAST DataStore breaks through traditional storage trade-offs to deliver a universal, all-flash platform that consolidates multiple tiers into a single system, enabling enterprises to run everything from AI/ML workloads to transactional databases at exabyte scale with unmatched performance and simplicity.
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Analyst Paper
Cohasset Assessment: VAST DataStore Regulatory Compliance
VAST DataStore meets stringent financial services compliance requirements for SEC, FINRA, and CFTC regulations. This independent assessment by Cohasset Associates confirms the platform's ability to retain records immutably with proper audit trails, legal hold capabilities, and the flexibility to scale, eliminating the need for complex tiered storage while ensuring regulatory-grade data protection.
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FAQ
Get the Facts About VAST DataStore
Read the Full DetailsUnlike legacy NAS or SAN, VAST DataStore unifies file, object, and database semantics in a single platform. It eliminates tiering and rebalancing, provides ACID guarantees, and leverages similarity‑based data reduction to make all‑flash storage economically viable at exabyte scale.
VAST DataStore uses locally decodable erasure codes that restore data in a fraction of the time of Reed‑Solomon with only 2.7% overhead. Combined with immutable snapshots and distributed metadata, it ensures data integrity, ransomware protection, and minimal downtime during failures.
VAST DataStore’s similarity‑based data reduction compresses globally across billions of files, even deduplicated ones. Combined with efficient erasure coding, it redefines flash economics, delivering exabyte‑scale capacity at a fraction of the cost of traditional all‑flash arrays.
VAST DataStore provides granular audit logs across NFS, SMB, and S3, capturing user activity, authentication, and admin changes. The logs integrate with SIEM and analytics tools, streamlining compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and other standards. Immutable storage ensures audit data integrity.
VAST DataStore delivers high‑throughput, low‑latency access to billions of files in a single namespace. Its transactional guarantees, multiprotocol ACLs, and metadata indexing ensure consistent, reliable data pipelines for AI training, real‑time analytics, and HPC workloads
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