Gemini is the data platform business model reinvented for savings, simplicity and choice. With Gemini, customers purchase managed software on hardware that is purchased directly from manufacturers at cost.
With Gemini, customers purchase managed software on hardware that can now be bought directly from our manufacturer at cost. Gemini provides customers more commercial flexibility and new ways to save on data platform solutions - all while delivering unrivaled levels of scale-out deployment simplicity.
Buy Like A Hyperscaler, Deploy Like An Enterprise
Never Pay The Refresh Tax, Never Migrate Again
Our Team Is Now Your Team
Not all customers operate at hyperscale computing levels, but Gemini provides everyone the same cost visibility and buying power that hyperscaler cloud providers use to build their clouds. Gemini disaggregates the hardware and software purchase process to provide all the advantages of a software-defined business model, with none of the integration and deployment complexity.
Since Gemini provides hardware lifecycle choices, the refresh data platform cycle means you'll never need to migrate data again. VAST’s asymmetric architecture makes it possible to non-disruptively scale from petabytes to exabytes across multiple generations of hardware as you build your always-on flash cloud.
Level 3 Engineer For Onboarding and Daily Operations. Coordinate deployments to ensure nothing goes wrong. Co-Pilots are responsible for day-to-day health, capacity and performance monitoring and planning.
Customer Success Management. Co-Pilots ensure the prioritization of your critical feature requests and work with early-access customers to provide advanced software access for early testing.
Infinite Lifecycle Services. Co-Pilots are cloud operators who work for you. Each Co-Pilot is responsible for providing continuous education to you and your team, as well as handling all aspects of cluster expansions and upgrades.
In the quantitative trading industry, having the flexibility to dial up performance and grow on demand without a forced refresh or hardware tax is a key win for our business. Gemini has given us the freedom and flexibility to meet our data center needs at any given time, while also increasing our return on investment.
At its core – Gemini is a software offering, delivered to customers as a simple managed service on hardware they can now buy directly from our manufacturing partner (Avnet), at cost. Customers now get the complete hardware cost transparency and buying power that hyperscale cloud providers enjoy, but at the same time, the VAST Data Platform is delivered to their doorstep as a simple, turnkey appliance complete with white glove support from VAST.
Customers can license as little as 100TB and have the option to scale by the full enclosure as well. Licenses start at 1 year and can be extended as long as desired.
Gemini provides several key benefits:
Savings: Customers can buy what they need when they need it – extending the already significant savings of the VAST Data Platform
Simplicity: VAST Co-Pilots now handle every aspect of monitoring, upgrading, expanding and refreshing customer infrastructure such that it’s a low-touch/no-touch experience for customers. We’ve got customers now scaling clusters to 50PB and beyond. And when you get to that level of scale, it just makes more sense for us to handle the heavy lifting because our team knows the product best.
Choice: Customers can refresh whenever they like to get the best use of hardware in the way that’s right for their business. They can stop endlessly migrating and just scale via VAST’s asymmetric architecture.
No. Co-Pilot is a service that comes standard with every Gemini subscription. VAST Data has made a commitment to ensure that the VAST Data Platform experience is the best in the industry and is dedicated to the success of our customers. VAST Co-Pilots constantly monitor customer systems, prioritizing feature requests, handling all of the planning and deploying as organizations expand VAST. Co-Pilots are expert cloud operators who work for you.
Each enclosure in a VAST cluster must have an associated license to run VAST’s software. When a customer chooses to replace an enclosure with a new bigger and/or faster enclosure they can transfer their Gemini capacity license from the old enclosure to the new enclosure.
No. VAST customers can renew Gemini subscriptions for up to 10 years after appliance install at no increase in price. Unlike other vendors, VAST doesn’t make money when you refresh your hardware, you buy it at cost. Therefore, we have no incentive to force you to upgrade.