VAST Data, a leader in AI data platform solutions, has announced a new collaboration with Equinix. This partnership brings together the VAST Data Platform, NVIDIA DGX systems, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, all housed within Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres. The result is a secure AI infrastructure solution designed to help enterprises develop and implement generative AI applications, using modernised enterprise data for AI workloads, without compromising security or ease of use.
Tackling the challenges of AI development
As businesses strive to unlock new insights from vast amounts of enterprise data, they face increasing complexities. The collaboration between VAST Data and Equinix aims to address these challenges by offering a simplified, secure solution for AI development. This solution connects enterprises through a global multi-cloud network with private access to cloud services. It’s designed to ensure high-performance AI information retrieval while adhering to data security and compliance standards. Additionally, the VAST Data Platform, certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, supports parallel performance and scalability up to exabyte levels, making it a powerful option for companies with large-scale AI needs.
Jon Lin, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Data Center Services at Equinix, highlighted the significance of this collaboration:
“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. 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 the collaboration
The new AI infrastructure solution offers several advantages for businesses seeking to optimise their AI investments:
- Performance-focused AI infrastructure: The VAST Data Platform underpins the solution, which is validated for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and optimised for handling both structured and unstructured data. This ensures that enterprises can maximise performance for AI workloads.
- Full control and security: Customers benefit from a fully managed service that offers total control over their data. VAST’s security features, including end-to-end encryption, data retention tools, and ransomware protection, guarantee that AI datasets are safeguarded, even under stringent regulatory conditions.
- Hybrid cloud computing made simple: Equinix provides secure connections to shared cloud resources, allowing businesses to manage their hybrid cloud environments seamlessly. With VAST’s DataSpace offering a global namespace, hybrid cloud AI computing becomes streamlined across core, edge data centres, or public clouds.
Simplifying AI data management
VAST Data’s platform addresses the complexities of managing AI pipelines. Its innovative data structures enhance the speed of data preparation and feature engineering, which are critical components of AI workflows. By integrating Equinix’s high-performance infrastructure and supporting NVIDIA accelerated computing, the solution helps businesses reduce the time it takes to adopt AI technologies and bring them to market.
“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.”
This partnership marks a significant step forward for businesses looking to leverage AI infrastructure to accelerate innovation and performance. With its focus on security, scalability, and ease of use, the VAST Data and Equinix solution is well-positioned to meet the growing demands of AI-driven enterprises.
