An Engine for Alpha Generation

Market volatility. Alternative data. Synthetic data for machine learning training. Crypto. Trading firms are dealing with unprecedented data growth, generated by a diverse set of data sources that all represent new opportunities to manage risk and generate alpha. Now more than ever, research and trading strategies are being compromised by data storage technologies that impose tradeoffs. Performance and capacity tradeoffs. Scale and simplicity tradeoffs. Compromised infrastructure has compromised the market’s opportunity to maximize alpha, until now.

While market datasets have grown fast, the need to access this data has grown faster. VAST's Universal Storage provides the unlimited data access for firms who are running compute grids of hundreds and even thousands of machines. When these grid environments and their GPUs that support machine learning are exposed to rich datasets with infinite scalability, a firms ability to gain rich insights and higher correlation from research archives grows exponentially.

For the first time in 20 years, a new type of distributed system architecture has been introduced. VAST’s Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) storage system was built from the ground up to eliminate the tradeoffs imposed by legacy scale-out architectures. The Universal Storage system was engineered to be fast enough for your most demanding pipelines, scalable enough for all your trading data and affordable enough that you never need to think about storage tiering again.