As AI reshapes industries and enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI-driven innovation, the need for high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions has never been greater. VAST is proud to announce that it has achieved the new NVIDIA-Certified Storage designation, enabling customers to deploy enterprise-grade AI infrastructure with confidence.
The Power of Certification: A New Standard for Enterprise AI Storage
The NVIDIA-Certified Storage program is designed to validate storage solutions against real-world AI workloads, ensuring that enterprise organizations can deploy AI factories with the highest levels of performance, reliability, and scalability. As AI models grow in complexity and demand, enterprises require storage architectures that can seamlessly handle massive datasets, accelerate data pipelines, and eliminate bottlenecks that hinder innovation.
With this certification, VAST will integrate even more deeply with NVIDIA-Certified Systems, delivering enterprise-class storage solutions that meet the rigorous demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. By undergoing NVIDIA’s comprehensive validation process, VAST will further demonstrate its ability to support AI-driven enterprises with unmatched efficiency and ease of deployment.
VAST Data + NVIDIA: A Synergy Built for AI
VAST has long been at the forefront of AI storage innovation, providing a Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture uniquely optimized for modern AI factories. By combining VAST’s high-performance storage solutions with NVIDIA-Certified Systems and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking, organizations can accelerate AI development at scale while benefiting from:
Unmatched Scalability – Seamlessly scale storage capacity and performance to meet the demands of growing AI workloads, from single scalable units to multi-rack AI infrastructure.
High-Performance AI Data Pipelines – VAST’s architecture ensures AI models receive a steady supply of data, eliminating bottlenecks and enhancing training efficiency.
Multi-Protocol Support – Native integration with NFS, SMB, and S3, enabling enterprises to run diverse AI workloads without storage silos.
Enterprise-Grade Reliability – 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and automated system health monitoring ensure AI workloads remain uninterrupted.
Seamless Integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise – Optimized for NVIDIA end-to-end AI software stack, ensuring organizations can deploy and manage AI storage infrastructure with ease.
As an NVIDIA-Certified Storage provider, VAST stands as a trusted solution for enterprises looking to accelerate their AI capabilities. This certification demonstrates our commitment to supporting the full lifecycle of AI initiatives, from deployment to management and scaling.
Why This Matters to Our Customers
Enterprises investing in AI need an infrastructure built on validated, high-performance technologies. By becoming an NVIDIA-Certified Storage provider, VAST provides enterprise customers with a proven solution that eliminates risk, accelerates deployment, and maximizes AI potential.
With AI models becoming increasingly data-hungry, traditional storage architectures often struggle to keep pace. The VAST Data Platform, designed for AI from the ground up, is uniquely positioned to address these challenges. With this NVIDIA certification and VAST’s commitment to integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform also announced today, customers can trust that VAST’s storage solutions will seamlessly integrate with NVIDIA’s AI ecosystems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability at any scale.
A “Better Together” Approach to AI Storage
The collaboration between VAST Data and NVIDIA exemplifies the synergy between enterprise storage systems and AI technologies. By integrating NVIDIA-Certified Systems, NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with the VAST Data Platform, we provide customers access to a robust, high-performance infrastructure designed for today’s data-intensive AI applications. This collaboration aligns perfectly with NVIDIA’s vision of making AI more productive, scalable, and efficient.
VAST’s enterprise storage solution meets rigorous certification criteria, ensuring it is optimized for real-world AI workloads. Our architecture leverages high-density NVMe flash SSDs, robust data reduction technologies, and strong security controls to deliver exceptional performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. This aligns with NVIDIA’s focus on accelerated computing platforms like NVIDIA Hopper and L40S GPUs, ensuring seamless integration and maximum productivity for AI workloads.
NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures provide guidance for building scalable and flexible enterprise AI factories that can grow alongside an organization’s AI needs, while the VAST Data Platform ensures non-disruptive scaling and improved data center efficiency with lower power consumption. This combination creates a foundation that adapts to the fast pace of the AI evolution without requiring extensive reconfiguration.
Looking Ahead: A Future Built for AI
As AI continues to transform industries—from healthcare and financial services to media and manufacturing—enterprises require infrastructure that can keep pace with innovation. The NVIDIA-Certified Storage program ensures organizations can confidently build AI factories with storage solutions that meet the highest performance, reliability, and scalability standards.
VAST is committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AI storage. By achieving NVIDIA-Certified Storage status, we are taking another step forward in delivering best-in-class AI infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.
To learn more about how VAST and NVIDIA are shaping the future of AI storage, visit the VAST booth #733 at NVIDIA GTC 2025 or join the discussion on Cosmos.
