An Engine for Alpha Generation
A new class of trading strategies has emerged that relies on enriched market data, alternative data, and large-scale simulations to enable predictive trading. The VAST AI OS delivers the scale, performance, and ease of management to empower trading teams to understand market dynamics by analyzing vast reserves of data.
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New trading strategies require a holistic view of data at massive scale.
Trading teams rely on algorithms that require fast access to vast amounts of data to predict and capitalize on market events. In addition to traditional market data, trading desks also use synthetic data to train machine learning models, and new markets like cryptocurrency are generating even more data. The amount of data that must be available in real-time for analysis exceeds the capabilities of traditional storage platforms.
The VAST AI OS brings a radical new approach to this challenge, where unstructured and structured data are fully synthesized on a unified architecture to extract insights from massive data sets. The VAST DataBase is an exabyte-scale transaction and analytical system that provides flash-optimized queries across massive data sets. The DataBase powers native SQL applications and accelerates popular query engines like Spark, Trino, and Dremio. Researchers gain the agility to discover correlations over unstructured and structured data to predict and understand market conditions like never before.
“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.”
“Since we’ve partnered with VAST, we’ve significantly increased the rates at which we can provide data to our researchers and increased the performance even during busy times. There are also enormous infrastructure savings.”
One tier for all of your research data.
The VAST AI OS is unified and built as a singular intelligent system, designed entirely from the ground up to make AI-accelerated data workflows simple to deploy and manage on-premises and in the cloud. VAST is engineered to be fast enough for your most demanding pipelines, scalable enough for all your trading data, and affordable enough that you never need to think about tiering again.
All Flash, at Archive Economics
Deploy all-flash infrastructure for all your active data sets. VAST's new advancements in commodity flash management, data protection and reduction deliver a lower TCO than hybrid storage alternatives.
Simple Data Management at Exabyte-scale
Get near-limitless snapshots, enterprise replication, user and admin auditing, non-disruptive upgrades and expansions plus the built-in VAST Catalog metadata index that lets you treat your file system like a database to manage all of your data.
Accelerate Complex Queries
The VAST DataBase plugins for Spark, Trino, Dremio, and additional query engines plus native SQL and analytics applications accelerates queries by up to 100X*.
* Point of comparison: VAST DataBase + Spark vs. Spark + S3
A Unified, Multi-Protocol Platform
Support unstructured (NFS, SMB, S3) and structured data (VAST DataBase) on a single platform with granular security controls.
Data-Efficient Cloud Bursting
Defeat data gravity with granular data access from anywhere with the VAST DataSpace.
Multi-Tenant, Global-Namespace Trading Infrastructure
VAST server pooling capability, QoS policies and secure multitenancy provide dedicated and guaranteed quality of service for Trading Desks.
Sample Workflow with VAST
