Remote-First-Company | New York City – March 11, 2025 – VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced its collaboration with Nebius, a leading full-stack AI infrastructure company, to deliver highly performant, secure and scalable AI cloud computing for enterprises across the globe. By integrating the cutting-edge VAST Data Platform, Nebius can provide unparalleled performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprises running advanced AI and machine learning workloads.
Nebius’ robust AI-native cloud delivers a full stack of purpose-built, tuned and optimized hardware and software that enables enterprise customers of all sizes to accelerate their AI ambitions. To meet the increasing demands of data-intensive enterprise AI customers, Nebius recognized the need to extend its AI Cloud with a fully featured, multi-tenant, high-performance data platform.
Together with VAST, we are removing barriers to enterprise AI adoption with cutting-edge GPU clusters and an AI-native cloud computing environment designed and engineered for the most demanding data challenges,” said Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius. “VAST’s high performance, feature-rich offering will enable us to accelerate innovation and provide customers with reliable, scalable, secure, and future-proof AI infrastructure.
With the VAST Data Platform powering Nebius’ AI cloud, customers can take advantage of all of the platform’s core capabilities, including:
Reliable, Scalable AI Infrastructure: Nebius AI Cloud leverages the latest compute, paired with the VAST Data Platform’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture and exabyte-scale DataStore to provide the speed, performance, multi-tenant security and reliability needed to ensure optimal operational efficiency.
Limitless Scaling with Fast Access to Data Anywhere: Nebius helps customers scale their cloud compute capacity effortlessly with a flexible pay-as-you-go model. With the VAST DataSpace, Nebius customers can seamlessly share and move their data to and from different regions and clusters via a global namespace that delivers fast access to all of an organization’s data across on-premises, cloud or edge environments.
Eliminating Unstructured Data: Nebius customers have access to the VAST DataBase, a multimodal database capable of handling both transactional and analytical workloads without tradeoffs, while supporting trillions of vectors to index the entirety of an enterprises’ data for AI deployments.
Enterprise-Ready AI Infrastructure: The VAST InsightEngine allows organizations to accelerate time-to-value by making enterprise data instantly usable for AI-driven insights. With VAST, Nebius is simplifying AI infrastructure with solutions designed and optimized for AI training, inference and fine-tuning workloads by enriching and enabling data-driven AI pipelines for faster, more economical, and highly efficient deployments.
The Path to Partnership: A Data-Driven Decision
After a thorough proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluation against competing alternatives, the VAST Data Platform demonstrated superior performance, seamless integration with Nebius’ cloud environment, and a fast-track deployment model that reduced operational risks. As Nebius expands its AI cloud footprint, VAST is committed to supporting its growth with its built-for-AI architecture, industry-leading support, and a shared vision for enabling the next generation of AI applications.
Enterprises today need efficient and secure AI cloud services that can deliver immediate value from their data,” said Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data. “Nebius saw firsthand that the VAST Data Platform could support the entire enterprise AI development workflow from prototype to deployment. Together, our partnership and our commitment to joint customer success will provide organizations with the AI infrastructure they need to drive innovation at the speed and scale of the AI era.
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