VAST Data Unveils Game-Changing Tools for AI and Real-Time Data
VAST Data, the company that is busy revolutionizing data platform management, dropped new tools in their growing toolbox today that should excite their growing customer base.
As a reminder, VAST Data has been delivering solutions for the AI market, providing data platform management that integrates resources from across environments and streamlines high performance data utilization for AI application advantage.
This delivery has earned VAST traction with leading cloud providers like CoreWeave and X AI, as well as enterprises like ServiceNow.
So what’s new? The first big delivery is VAST’s new block storage functionality, available next month. To understand why this is a big deal, we need to take a step back and think about data being stored in blocks, files, streams, tables and objects, with block data a very standard format of traditional data management in large enterprises. The integration of native block data support will open VAST as a streamlined solution for many organizations with large block data stores – something that may have been a limitation of VAST deployment for some customers.
What really caught our attention today was the delivery of a new solution called Event Broker, a groundbreaking architectural shift that brings event streaming, analytics, and AI together in a unified, high-performance data platform. Organizations have been frustrated with the immense tuning required from traditional Kafka solutions that have been used in this space, often with less than perfect results.
For the past 20 years, event streaming has been hampered by rigid architectures, operational complexity, and inefficiencies that limit fidelity, scale and analytical potential. With the Event Broker, VAST is changing that. Kafka API-compatible, the VAST Event Broker is a real-time event streaming engine eliminating the need for Kafka clusters and unlocking a new era of scalability, performance, and simplicity. Integration of the Event Broker into VAST’s existing Data Engine provides customers an easy onramp for integration, and delivery of streaming data as SQL tables offers customers a structured approach for real-time analytics.
They’ve added major performance enhancements with low-level tunables, addressing a major challenge with Kafka implementation, and they’ve lowered TCO with built-in data reduction. The integration into the VAST Data admin platform just makes it easier for organizations to spend less time messing with tuning and more time gaining insights from event related data streams.
Who is likely interested in the streaming solution? We expect the financial service industry to engage rapidly to put Event Broker through its paces. Retail environments facing real time sales data, any company relying on large deployments of IoT sensor data, healthcare operators seeking better control of real time patient data, and really anyone who is grappling with gaining insight from real-time data streams will be interested in this new capability.
We expect we’ll likely hear soon from customers on adoption of both Event Broker and native block storage support as VAST is very good at turning technical capability into customer success. Our antennae are up to learn more in the months ahead as these new capabilities deploy across VAST Data platform environments.
VAST Data, the company that is busy revolutionizing data platform management, dropped new tools in their growing toolbox today that should excite their growing customer base.
As a reminder, VAST Data has been delivering solutions for the AI market, providing data platform management that integrates resources from across environments and streamlines high performance data utilization for AI application advantage.
This delivery has earned VAST traction with leading cloud providers like CoreWeave and X AI, as well as enterprises like ServiceNow.
So what’s new? The first big delivery is VAST’s new block storage functionality, available next month. To understand why this is a big deal, we need to take a step back and think about data being stored in blocks, files, streams, tables and objects, with block data a very standard format of traditional data management in large enterprises. The integration of native block data support will open VAST as a streamlined solution for many organizations with large block data stores – something that may have been a limitation of VAST deployment for some customers.
What really caught our attention today was the delivery of a new solution called Event Broker, a groundbreaking architectural shift that brings event streaming, analytics, and AI together in a unified, high-performance data platform. Organizations have been frustrated with the immense tuning required from traditional Kafka solutions that have been used in this space, often with less than perfect results.
For the past 20 years, event streaming has been hampered by rigid architectures, operational complexity, and inefficiencies that limit fidelity, scale and analytical potential. With the Event Broker, VAST is changing that. Kafka API-compatible, the VAST Event Broker is a real-time event streaming engine eliminating the need for Kafka clusters and unlocking a new era of scalability, performance, and simplicity. Integration of the Event Broker into VAST’s existing Data Engine provides customers an easy onramp for integration, and delivery of streaming data as SQL tables offers customers a structured approach for real-time analytics.
They’ve added major performance enhancements with low-level tunables, addressing a major challenge with Kafka implementation, and they’ve lowered TCO with built-in data reduction. The integration into the VAST Data admin platform just makes it easier for organizations to spend less time messing with tuning and more time gaining insights from event related data streams.
Who is likely interested in the streaming solution? We expect the financial service industry to engage rapidly to put Event Broker through its paces. Retail environments facing real time sales data, any company relying on large deployments of IoT sensor data, healthcare operators seeking better control of real time patient data, and really anyone who is grappling with gaining insight from real-time data streams will be interested in this new capability.
We expect we’ll likely hear soon from customers on adoption of both Event Broker and native block storage support as VAST is very good at turning technical capability into customer success. Our antennae are up to learn more in the months ahead as these new capabilities deploy across VAST Data platform environments.
