Jan 12, 2021

U.S. Federal Agency Invests Over $10M On VAST Data’s Universal Storage to Pioneer Data-Driven Breakthroughs

NEW YORK, January 12, 2021 – VAST Data, a storage company breaking decades-old tradeoffs, today announced that a major U.S. Federal Agency has committed over $10M on VAST Data’s Universal Storage to consolidate their data analytics infrastructure into a single, flash-based storage system that will support the needs of grand-challenge data science. This is the latest in a series of customers to exceed $10 million in cumulative investment in VAST’s groundbreaking Universal Storage technology. The agency will utilize VAST’s technology to unlock the secrets hidden within vast reserves of biological, population and health data.

This new customer is the latest in a line of new data pioneers who are not just making significant investments in VAST’s Universal Storage platform, but are making the decision to no longer victimize applications and administrators with the complexity that comes from hard-drive based storage and tiered data environments,” said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO at VAST Data. “For this customer, VAST was ultimately selected because of its superior price, performance, and capacity proposition and its enterprise-grade reputation in helping customers scale beyond the limitations and roadblocks tied to legacy infrastructure.”

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VAST Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organizations trust the VAST Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive computing needs. VAST Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of all of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in 2019, VAST Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company in history. For more information, please visit and follow VAST Data on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

VAST Data Federal, headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, is a subsidiary of VAST Data, the AI data platform company. VAST Data Federal is trusted by numerous federal agencies to provide modern data center infrastructure solutions built for AI. With the VAST Data Platform and a broad understanding of US government contracts, security requirements, and architectural needs for real-time analytic models - VAST Data Federal brings a new approach to the era of AI computing. For more information, please visit and follow VAST Data Federal on LinkedIn.