Decode the Building Blocks of Life

For years, life science centers have built their environments from large reserves of hard disk drives in order to marry tight budgets with large storage capacity needs. All the while, large farms of CPUs walk randomly through fragments of life science data looking for variants and mutations in ways that can't be cached or accelerated by tiered storage. This mismatch between the I/O demands of bioinformatic pipelines and the limits of legacy HDD and tiered storage has left the community in a sub-optimized state for over a decade.

VAST Universal Storage provides a responsive data infrastructure that allows you to remove the barriers to data insight as GPUs, accelerators and AI applications continue to evolve—and you can do so at any scale.

For the first time in 20 years, VAST Data has introduced a new type of distributed system architecture. VAST's Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) storage system was built from the ground up to eliminate the tradeoffs between storage performance and capacity with a new storage architecture that enables unlimited processing on affordable flash, at up to exabyte scale. Our Universal Storage system was engineered to be fast enough for your most demanding pipelines, scalable enough for all of your life science data and affordable enough that you never need to think about storage tiering again.