VAST Data builds what it calls an AI Operating System: a unified software platform that integrates storage, database, and compute services into a single architecture designed to support large-scale, data-intensive AI workloads. At the core of the platform is DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything), an architecture the company says eliminates long-standing tradeoffs between performance, scale, and cost by disaggregating compute and storage resources while maintaining shared access across them. The platform is designed to handle exabyte-scale data pipelines spanning edge to cloud environments.
VAST Data reached a valuation of $9.1 billion in 2024, and counts more than 25% of the Fortune 100 among its customers. Named customers include xAI, CoreWeave, Pixar, and the NHL, as well as leading global GPU cloud providers. The company claims its platform enables organisations to use 90% of data that would otherwise go untapped for real-time AI applications.
The technical scope of the platform spans AI infrastructure, deep learning pipelines, GPU cloud environments, and enterprise storage systems. Industry verticals served include cloud infrastructure, media and entertainment, sports, and broader enterprise IT. The company describes itself as one of the fastest-growing enterprise infrastructure companies in history, built by a team that experienced the limitations of legacy infrastructure firsthand.