Data Infrastructure Engineered For AI
At Nextron we’re honored to be VAST Data’s wholesaler and reseller partner in the Nordic Countries. VAST’s mission is to build a data platform that can match the ambition of businesses in the artificial intelligence (AI) era and deep learning computing. VAST Data’s solutions might still be a little unknown to the Nordic's big audience, but this is changing fast. Dedicated IT professionals have certainly heard about VAST’s unique storage solutions designed for AI workflows and powered by a new architecture.
Launched in 2019, VAST Data democratizes fast access to all data and provides simple, scalable, and ultra-fast storage. Some of the world’s leading data-driven organizations, such as NASA and Pixar, utilize VAST Data’s solutions.
The VAST Data Universal Storage represents the future with one platform for only one type of storage surface. Environments with different archive, backup, hybrid, and flash storage tiers represent the past. We are talking about a breakthrough approach in data-intensive computing that serves as the comprehensive software infrastructure required to make AI computing easier, more scalable, and more efficient.
VAST also presents new technologies for utilizing unstructured and structured data.
Flexible and safe use of data
Did you know that NVIDIA is utilizing VAST Data’s solutions in its architecture while pioneering accelerated computing, AI, HPC, gaming, and robotics? Supermicro delivers VAST Data’s solutions under its brand and name. Nextron is NVIDIA’s and Supermicro’s highest level certified partner.
We have the right expertise and insights to be VAST’s trusted partner in the Nordic Countries.
I see a big need in Finland for VAST’s solutions in both smaller companies and large enterprises developing their businesses and services by implementing artificial intelligence powered by machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The potential is huge in research institutes, the mobile gaming industry, media and broadcasting, and high-tech businesses developing devices and machines just to mention a few.
Enterprises are eagerly testing how to utilize AI in their environments, operations, and services. This requires the possibility to use data efficiently and flexibly. Data is typically located in diverse locations and different formats, sources, and tiers. This creates problems and bottlenecks in terms of promoting AI.
Islands of storage can be eliminated with VAST’s DASE architecture. The VAST Data Universal Storage is built on a modern foundation of APIs and storage pools can be connected to multiple networks. The platform also provides powerful tools for organizing and safeguarding data, and the architecture enables fast backups and immediate recovery from ransomware attacks.
High availability and huge savings
Comparing VAST Data Universal Storage with a leading competing product provides interesting results. VAST delivers 50 times more restore performance and the cost per usable terabyte is 38% lower. VAST requires 66% less rack space and consumes 61% less power.
The VAST platform provides access to exabyte-scale volumes of data and eliminates complex storage hierarchies in the storage and database world. The platform scales parallel read and write operations at any scale from edge to cloud to on-premises data centers. The uptime is 99.99999999% and VAST Data’s Universal Storage can easily be integrated into environments for modernizing the infrastructure of legacy applications. VAST makes it possible to bring AI to your enterprise data. The solution has powerful tools and features for AI workflows and storage optimization including video files.
With VAST’s solutions, companies can improve the AI testing and implementing phase in their organizations which means big savings in money and time.
Certified experts in service
We deliver VAST’s solutions directly to our customers or together with our ICT services provider network. We make sure that certified technical experts are available when needed and ensure controlled deployments.
Nextron can help to organize versatile training sessions and support services to its customers and partners provided by VAST’s professionals.
Interested to learn and hear more about storage designed for AI and deep learning computing? Please get back to us. We’re more than happy to help.
Mikael Sjöblom
Technical Sales Manager, Nextron