GEC NEWS WIREWhat have you showcased this year at GITEX 2024?
Vast Data is a data platform known as the AI Operating System. In our latest release, we’ve introduced the AI engine in collaboration with NVIDIA. This integration brings together Vast Data with NVIDIA’s developer applications.
We’re currently located within NVIDIA’s NIMS, a setting developed to bring the “AI factory” experience closer to the Japanese market. Vast Data’s platform is specifically designed to serve AI applications by facilitating the ingestion of vast data quantities. Here, all data is treated as a primary entity with full access to GPUs, enabling the seamless operation of any required language models.
As you talk about AI models that you’re working on, a lot of cybersecurity concerns. So how are you governing that there is no cybersecurity?
Vast Data is designed to meet stringent U.S. federal requirements, with a strong focus on security, including secure storage and access management. A key feature of our platform is the mountable snapshot functionality, which enables the creation of fully encrypted, two-key-protected snapshots that remain completely secure. Meanwhile, our Buzz on-premises solution allows data to remain localized, at both the state and national levels, with a global namespace that enables data replication across regions by transmitting only metadata. This approach ensures full data protection within country-specific software clouds.
Reflecting on GITEX 2024, this year’s theme centered around AI and generative AI, and we’ve seen a tremendous response from potential and existing customers eager to accelerate their AI goals in a cost-effective, high-performance manner. Our presence included approved reference architectures developed alongside NVIDIA and other vendors like AMD and Cerebras, allowing us to bring comprehensive AI solutions to the market.
We’re also closely collaborating with major clients like Perfor2 and expanding into the broader AI market. Our mission is to make these global innovations accessible here.
Additionally, Vast Data was recently recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for object storage. We announced a significant new partnership with Duotelico, led by our co-founder Elaine and Jasim, as well as with Co42. This collaboration, already making headlines, will enable us to support AI advancements across the UAE, Northern Emirates, and the Gulf region. As a software-driven data platform rather than just a hardware vendor, we’re facilitating generative AI’s expansion into new markets.
