VAST Data extends global namespace capabilities with Google Cloud

VAST’s multi-petabyte scale data platform now supports AI workflows in Google Cloud.

VAST Data has made the VAST Data Platform available with Google Cloud.

By extending the VAST Data Platform’s global namespace with Google Cloud, organisations have the flexibility to deploy multi-node VAST Clusters either independently with Google Cloud or in conjunction with on-premises VAST clusters, offering the full suite of platform features to support both hybrid and native Google Cloud environments.

Part of the VAST Data Platform, the VAST DataSpace offers a unified, consistent data management layer to access, move, manage and protect structured and unstructured data across edge, on-premises and hybrid multi-cloud environments, beyond a single cluster.

This is made possible by VAST’s market disrupting DASE architecture separating data processing logic from data persistence, enabling the scaling of capacity and performance independently.

As organisations’ datasets and cloud adoption continue to grow, this architecture ultimately, this allows for efficient, limitless scale and collaboration between multiple applications or users across hybrid cloud/multi-location environments – without having to manage multiple copies of their data.

These new VAST Data Platform capabilities help customers and partners to:

• Simplify Data Management in Hybrid cloud Architecture: The VAST Data Platform’s global namespace enables a single unified view of data across enterprise data centers and Google Cloud that is completely transparent to applications and users – serving data to everywhere requested while adhering to security and access protocols.

• Enable Collaboration Across Distributed Teams: Globally distributed organisations with data sets spanning multiple data centers across different geographies and Google Cloud regions can now collaborate, not on copies of data, but through predictive prefetching – benefiting from fast access to files or objects stored locally in any location.

• Accelerate Feature Engineering for AI: The VAST DataBase accelerates AI and data pipelines, enabling feature engineering with apps like Apache Spark. Organisations can spin up Spark clusters with Google Cloud and gain radical compute efficiencies through integration with the VAST DataBase.

• Ensure Cyber Resiliency with a Zero Trust Architecture: With granular access control, multitenancy with strict isolation, robust encryption, key management and intelligent threat detection capabilities – the VAST Data Platform allows organisations to adhere to the foundational principles of Zero Trust across clouds, while providing features like data indexing, search capabilities and cataloguing using tags and metadata to deliver a comprehensive and secure data management system.

Similar to VAST’s DASE architecture, Google Cloud’s offering of flexible configurations lays the groundwork for synergistic, optimised cloud solutions – parallels ideal for powering AI and data-intensive workloads in the cloud.

John Mao, Vice President, Technology Alliances, VAST Data, said: “We’re enabling Google Cloud customers to take advantage of VAST natively on their preferred cloud platform, simplifying hybrid cloud data management, protection and access to accelerated computing cloud services, enabling faster time to value and accelerating innovation.”