By applying new thinking to decades-old storage problems, VAST has broken the long-standing tradeoff between performance and the cost of capacity to make affordable flash restores possible. The VAST Data Platform bucks the traditional model of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) that deduplicate data across spinning disks and are not designed for fast data recovery. Combining VAST's all-flash solution with Commvault’s Complete Data Protection platform enables organizations to instantly recover from any data loss scenario, including ransomware attacks, at a cost comparable to hard drive economics.

VAST combines QLC flash, revolutionary data reduction, and highly efficient erasure codes to bring flash to price points suitable for backup, allowing customers to combine Commvault’s backup orchestration and data management engine with VAST’s unified all-flash file and object storage platform. VAST and Commvault deliver complementary data reduction capabilities to further drive optimal enterprise performance, efficiency, and TCO. Together, Commvault and VAST offer an all-flash scale-out architecture that can meet stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) by providing rapid restore performance at a cost 40 percent lower than legacy PBBAs such as Dell EMC PowerProtect DD.

For the first time in 20 years, VAST Data has introduced a new type of distributed system architecture. VAST's Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) storage system was built from the ground up to eliminate the tradeoffs imposed by legacy scale-out architectures. The VAST Data Platform was engineered to deliver the performance and I/O parallelism of SAN storage while providing the simplicity and elasticity of NAS, while making all-flash infrastructure affordable enough that you never need to think about storage tiering again.