VAST Data ports software to Google Cloud – Blocks and Files
Summary
VAST has a strong focus on AI, forging deals with GPU farm providers such as CoreWeave, and having a Thinking Machines development ambition. The brief says globally distributed organizations can collaborate in real time, with predictive prefetching ensuring fast, local access to files across datacenters and GCP regions. There is a seamless, scalable data infrastructure and accelerated AI pipelines in the cloud with elastic compute resources in GCP. VAST’s solution brief says the Google Cloud presence means using “on-premises data in GCP has never been easier with the platform’s global namespace, enhancing collaboration and innovation. We think that VAST will port its data storage software and services to Microsoft Azure some time later this year, thus completing a major public cloud trifecta.