Remote-First-Company | AUCKLAND, New Zealand - 18 February 2025 – VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced its collaboration with ASI Solutions, a leading trans-Tasman IT services provider, to revolutionize AI-driven cloud services in New Zealand.
Utilizing VAST Data’s advanced AI data infrastructure, ASI has transformed its business model from that of a traditional IT reseller to an innovative cloud service provider offering GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) in a scalable, secure, and high-performance manner to a variety of organizations across New Zealand.
ASI’s journey with VAST Data began in 2019, as the team sought a partner capable of delivering the simplicity, performance, and scalability required to serve its unique market needs. ASI’s philosophy of “complex is competent, simple is genius” made VAST Data a natural fit, and since then, the relationship has grown from reselling VAST solutions to integrating them as the foundation of ASI’s GPU cloud platform.
When we evaluated VAST, we saw not a storage solution, but an infrastructure partner with the technology and vision around AI to help us achieve our ambitions,” said Lloyd Vickery, Country Manager for ASI New Zealand. “VAST’s simplicity, multi-protocol support, and seamless scalability have allowed us to build a cloud platform that enables organizations of all sizes to access advanced AI capabilities in an affordable and efficient way. For us this is the most scalable way New Zealanders can tap into AI’s transformative potential.
The VAST Advantage for customers of ASI’s GPU Cloud Platform:
Future-Proofing Through Innovation: VAST’s consistent stream of innovations, including role-based access control, enhanced analytics, and database integration, aligns with ASI’s roadmap to deliver transformative AI services to the New Zealand market and beyond.
Effortless Scalability & Multi-Tenancy: VAST’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything Architecture (DASE) allows ASI to support multiple customers on a single system, providing efficient resource allocation and real-time scalability without added complexity.
High-Performance AI Data Infrastructure: With VAST’s disaggregated, shared-everything design, ASI’s cloud platform delivers unparalleled performance, enabling seamless data flow for GPU workloads like foundational model training, analytics, and inference.
Seamless GPU Integration: VAST enables ASI to maximize utilization, flexibility, and performance of its GPU clusters, delivering advanced AI capabilities to customers at a fraction of traditional costs.
Sustainability-Driven Design: ASI’s data center footprint is optimized with VAST, reducing power consumption and supporting New Zealand’s wider 100% renewable energy goals while delivering industry-leading AI performance.
Our continuing partnership with VAST Data allows us to deliver unmatched value to our customers in the government and education sectors,” said Philip Clegg, ASI’s Field CTO. “VAST’s feature-rich offering delivers ease of use, robust multi-tenancy, and groundbreaking AI integrations which enable us to provide cutting-edge technology to organizations that would otherwise not have access to these capabilities. Together, we’re proving that world-class AI infrastructure can be both cost-effective and simple.
Accelerating AI Adoption in New Zealand and Beyond
ASI’s GPU cloud platform, launched in partnership with CDC Data Centers and PB Tech, combines world-class hardware, expert services, and VAST’s high-performance data platform to deliver an integrated, self-service AI solution. The platform has already gained traction among government and educational institutions, supporting workloads such as research data processing and AI model training, secure and efficient alternatives to expensive public cloud storage, and advanced analytics and database services for operational efficiencies.
With a growing level of active data already hosted on VAST, ASI’s cloud customers benefit from substantial data reduction, lower operational costs, and accelerated AI workflows. In addition, the simplicity of VAST’s day-two management allows ASI to maintain a lean operational model, ensuring a high return on investment for both ASI and its customers.
Our evolved collaboration with ASI Solutions is a testament to the transformative power of VAST Data’s platform,” said Chris Morgan, Vice President of AI Solutions, VAST Data. “We’re pleased to see ASI deploy VAST on its locally hosted GPUaaS offering. By combining our scalable, high-performance infrastructure with ASI’s expertise and vision, we’re enabling data-intensive organizations across New Zealand to embrace the AI era with confidence with a frictionless and secure experience.
Having proven its GPU cloud model in New Zealand, ASI is now scaling its operations into Australia, bringing its innovative services to a broader audience as a white-labelled service. The company’s commitment to delivering AI-powered solutions with simplicity and sustainability positions it as a leader in the region’s growing AI ecosystem.