The world of AI and data analytics is evolving at an unprecedented pace, yet enterprises continue to face roadblocks when it comes to deploying and scaling AI initiatives. Legacy architectures introduce bottlenecks, fragmented tools slow down innovation, and governance and security risks are a major concern.
With the latest launch of VAST Data Platform we are defining how enterprises power AI-driven innovation, delivering a seamless, AI-ready data foundation that unifies structured and unstructured data, enables AI automation at scale, and ensures enterprise-grade security—all while reducing complexity and cost.
VAST InsightEngine for End-to-End AI Pipelines
At the core of this release is VAST InsightEngine, a transformative AI solution that turns raw data into operational AI in real time. By seamlessly integrating high-speed vector search, intelligent, automated AI workflows, and fine-grained security, InsightEngine eliminates the barriers that have slowed AI adoption. For a deeper dive into InsightEngine and how it revolutionizes AI operationalization and innovation, read our recent blog post “From Data to Decision: The Power of VAST Insight Engine.”
New Capabilities that Drive VAST InsightEngine
Each of the new features in the VAST Data Platform is designed to support the foundation of VAST InsightEngine, making real-time AI pipelines and workflows a reality.
As part of this evolution, we are excited to announce that the VAST DataBase now fully supports vector storage and introduces real-time vector search and retrieval, critical capabilities that deliver on our vision of a semantic database that seamlessly integrates OLTP, OLAP, and vector workloads.
With platform-native vector storage and high-performance search, VAST enables organizations to store and retrieve high-dimensional vectors alongside structured data, enabling brute-force nearest neighbor searches for highly accurate results. VAST is the first and only vendor capable of performing both text-to-SQL and vector search in the same database for inference operations, allowing AI-driven queries to seamlessly combine structured and unstructured data retrieval.
Additionally, we’re helping organizations overcome a major AI data governance hurdle by introducing row- and column-level permissions in the VAST DataBase. This unified fine-grained access control ensures that both raw and vector data are protected and that only authorized users can interact with permissioned data.
A key challenge in AI data governance is maintaining security and compliance at scale. Organizations now have the confidence to scale AI and analytics while maintaining airtight security, compliance, and data governance. They can now apply unified row- and column-level permissions both to raw data and across AI-generated vectors to prevent unauthorized access to data used in and generated by AI. This ensures that every stage of the AI pipeline remains protected, mitigating risks associated with data breaches and compliance failures.
VAST is also bringing powerful automation to AI pipelines and workflows. With new serverless triggers and functions, we’ve introduced event-driven processing that eliminates manual intervention. Enterprises can now automate AI pipelines by triggering data transformations the moment new data arrives. Users can write and execute custom Python functions without managing infrastructure, allowing them to focus on building intelligent applications.
Serverless triggers and functions leverage Kubernetes orchestration to drive workflows across AI inference services, enabling InsightEngine to process, enrich, and transform data in real time. With the foundation of a Kubernetes operator, VAST can seamlessly scale compute capabilities across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments—ensuring AI models operate with the freshest, most relevant data without complexity. To power AI inferencing at scale, the VAST DataBase enables real-time provisioning of data to GPUs, ensuring seamless and efficient processing for AI-driven workloads.
The Future of Enterprise AI at Scale Starts Now
With this release, VAST expands its ability to help organizations deliver “Enterprise-Ready AI,” with real-time insights, automated workflows, and advanced security in a single unified platform. AI teams can now leverage real-time data ingestion, scalable vector storage, and workflow automation—all while reducing infrastructure costs and eliminating unnecessary complexity.
The future of Enterprise AI at scale starts now. With VAST, enterprises can bridge the gap between raw data and real-time intelligence.
Want to learn more? Visit VAST at booth #733 at NVIDIA GTC next week to see live VAST Data Platform demos, including deep dives into VAST InsightEngine. Book a meeting here.
Can’t wait until GTC to dig in further? Join the conversation on Cosmos or schedule a demo here.
