VAST Data announced a collaboration with Arista Networks to offer optimized AI infrastructure combining low latency,
high-bandwidth lossless ethernet switching with a performant, secure data
platform that can seamlessly scale to meet the needs of modern enterprises and
large GPU cloud service providers.
Enterprises are increasingly implementing AI for business-critical
tasks, highlighting the need for extremely reliable, secure, and
high-performance infrastructure that can be deployed rapidly and seamlessly scale
as AI initiatives expand. The VAST Data Platform's innovative Disaggregated
Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, paired with Arista Networks'
high-speed, low-latency networking ensures enterprises maintain resilient data
access for optimized GPU-accelerated computing.
"As enterprises continue to adopt and integrate Gen-AI across
their businesses, modern AI applications require an accelerated computing
network that can interconnect hundreds and thousands of GPUs, with fast access
to massive unstructured data sets distributed across the globe," said Martin
Hull, VP/GM Cloud and AI Networking. "We are consolidating and optimizing
AI infrastructure to empower enterprises to unlock the full potential of AI."
Key benefits for joint customers of Arista Networks and VAST Data
include:
- Simple, Robust Enterprise Functionality: VAST and Arista's network and data management composability enables
a best-of-breed approach to resilient,
easy to manage, multi-tenant, scalable,
high-performance, and Zero-Trust based AI infrastructure that meets strict enterprise security and compliance
standards.
- Efficient Infrastructure for AI Workloads: The VAST Data Platform optimizes organizations' data
sets using proprietary Similarity data reduction and compression capabilities that help
significantly reduce power consumption and improve efficiency. Paired with
Arista's data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for AI environments,
businesses benefit from efficient networking infrastructure built to
support their AI workloads.
- End-to-End, Full Stack Observability: Ensuring that data is flowing from
edge-to-core-to-cloud in order to meet the needs of data-hungry algorithms
and services is a critical job that can be easily managed using Arista and
VAST Data's complementary observability tools.
- Flexible Scalability: With
VAST and Arista, organizations have the flexibility to scale as their AI
and data needs grow, offering low latency, high-bandwidth lossless
ethernet switching, and disaggregated infrastructure that can scale
storage and performance independently as their business requires.
"Today's new AI workloads require a new type of data
infrastructure, built on top of a radically different architecture than
before," said John Mao, Vice President, Strategic Alliances at VAST Data.
"With VAST and Arista, organizations can consolidate enterprise and AI
workloads onto a unified, multi-tenant infrastructure designed to streamline
their AI data pipelines, simplify management, and reduce complexity - allowing
them to focus on deriving value from their entire data set and accelerate
innovation."
As part of this partnership, VAST Data has qualified select Arista
Ethernet switches for use in production deployments at scale, today.