Press Release
Jan 16, 2020

VAST Data Liberates Containerized Applications From The Hard Drive

VAST’s New Container Storage Interface (CSI) Brings Affordable All-Flash Infrastructure to Containerized Applications Eliminating Performance Issues Related to Simplicity, Scale, Affordability, and Speed

VAST Data Liberates Containerized Applications From The Hard Drive
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NEW YORK – January 16, 2020 – VAST Data, a storage company breaking decades-old tradeoffs, today announced the general availability of its new Container Storage Interface (CSI). VAST Data’s CSI enables users to programmatically deploy and manage storage services for a variety of container platforms that have adopted the CSI standard. Announced in February of 2019, VAST Data Platform's architecture has combined new technology such as QLC flash, 3D Xpoint and NVMe over Fabrics networking with new VAST algorithms to transform the economics of flash and make it finally affordable to put all of your data on flash. VAST’s CSI driver works with modern container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Red Hat Open Shift to enable the programmatic provisioning of persistent storage volumes. Beyond the benefits of all-flash, containerized applications can also benefit from the advanced capabilities that are inherent to VAST Data’s Disaggregated, Shared Everything (DASE) storage architecture:

  • RDMA-accelerated persistent volumes: VAST’s NFSoRDMA interface can stream data into single containers at nearly 9GB/s, a level of performance which is essential for next-generation machine learning and deep learning applications and 4x the speed of legacy NAS. In recent customer testing, VAST’s CSI driver and VAST Data Platform delivered three times the performance of even an enterprise all-flash SAN storage system

  • Quality of service for multiple tenants: With the ability to pool VAST Servers into resource groups that can be dynamically allocated to container pods, VAST Data Platform can ensure that specific applications do not get overrun by other applications in an environment by hard-allocating file server HW along pool boundaries.

We are continuing our march toward being a truly universal storage platform by bringing VAST to container environments,” said Jeff Denworth, VP of Products and Co-Founder at VAST. “With our CSI, we are drastically improving the performance of NFS-backed persistent volumes through the implementation of storage CPU pooling and RDMA, which makes this ideal for companies using containers for today’s demanding artificial intelligence workloads. We can now enable enterprises to bring all-flash performance and capacity at the price of HDD to container platforms that have adopted the CSI standards.

The VAST Data CSI driver is available today, and can also be pulled from Docker Hub at https://hub.docker.com/r/vastdataorg/csi.

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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.