Experience the advantages of an advanced data infrastructure tailored to the specific requirements of R1 universities. VAST enables you to achieve unparalleled scalability, security, and performance, empowering your research initiatives.
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VAST Data Platform for Research Universities
Unrivaled Simplicity for Your Research Data
At VAST Data, we offer an advanced data platform tailored to the unique needs of research universities. Our platform provides scalability, security, and performance for various workloads, simplifying data governance and enabling groundbreaking research and discovery.
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VAST Data addresses the complex needs of research universities by providing a unified, scalable data platform that eliminates the inefficiencies of parallel file systems.
Overview
Unified Platform Transforms HPC and Research Data Management
VAST reduces operational complexities and enhances data governance, ensuring seamless multi-tenancy and robust security. The system's advanced architecture minimizes downtime and simplifies maintenance, even during upgrades. With its high-performance capabilities, VAST Data meets the demands of rapid data access and processing, optimizing resource utilization and compliance across both enterprise and HPC environments, ultimately leading to significant budget savings and improved operational efficiency.
Key Benefits
Transform Your Research Data with VAST
Experience the benefits of a cutting-edge data infrastructure designed to meet the unique needs of R1 universities. We help you achieve unprecedented scalability, security, and performance, driving your research forward with confidence.
Secure Multi-Tenancy and Robust Security
Continuous Operation and High Availability
The VAST Data Platform ensures 99.9999% uptime, providing continuous and reliable operations during system upgrades or unexpected failures sustaining critical computational workflows and data analysis tasks without interruption.
Exceptional Performance for Diverse Workloads
VAST delivers exceptional performance across all IO patterns through its Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture, handling varying HPC and research workloads, from large datasets with sequential IO operations to numerous small files with random IO patterns.
Eliminating Data Redundancy
VAST’s pooled compute groups reduce redundant data copying in multi-disciplinary HPC environments by enabling simultaneous data access and HPC performance for all workloads.
Unified Data Governance
Centrally manage, monitor, and govern diverse data assets by streamlining data governance with a unified framework and the VAST Data Catalog for efficient metadata querying.
Maximizing Resource Efficiency
VAST helps achieve higher peak bandwidth and resource efficiency by consolidating the characteristics of high-capacity and high-performance systems into a single data platform, maximizing system performance.
Success Story
PacBio Accelerating Genomic Discovery with VAST Data
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IDC White Paper: High-Performance NFS Storage for HPC
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