As new use cases mandate more robust data architectures, Vast Data Inc. is moving fast to bridge the gap between technology’s past and its artificial intelligence-driven future. With ambitious initiatives such as the Vast Cosmos community, the company’s AI-focused infrastructure aims to redefine how data is used to power intelligent innovation.
Jack Gold (left) joins theCUBE to analyze Vast Cosmos and AI infrastructure.
“I think the two big things that they talked about was the Cosmos community that they’re building out and aiming at AI and bringing it together,” said Rob Strechay (pictured, right), principal analyst at theCUBE Research. “Also, there was the engine for insights that they’re building out, which is about how to move up the stack and continue to move up the stack from a data perspective and be more of that data layer for people doing AI. Not to mention that they are going further with some of the database type stuff for streaming data and things like that with Kafka under the hood.”
Strechay was joined by fellow theCUBE Research analyst Dave Vellante and Jack Gold (left), principal analyst at J.Gold Associates LLC at the Vast Presents: Enter the Cosmos event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Vast Cosmos and the company’s approach of integrating real-time capabilities with atomic file systems and partnerships with industry leaders such as Nvidia Corp. (* Disclosure below.)
Vast Cosmos: Building a community for AI innovation
The Cosmos community is designed to connect innovators and help them leverage Vast’s platform as a foundation for advanced AI and data processing projects. The end goal is to make Vast a capable data layer for enterprises using AI. By moving up the stack, Vast is attempting to provide the infrastructure and be at the forefront of AI innovation and development, according to Gold. This shift could also increase the company’s visibility and position them well for an IPO in the near future.
“The visibility also helps them as they try to go to an IPO in the not the distant future,” Gold said. “That’s certainly not a bad thing. I liked the idea of trying to move up the stack, being more embedded but visible to people as opposed to just being under the covers.”
Vast is also diverting a large chunk of resources to real-time data processing. While large language models have become more intelligent, they still struggle with real-time capabilities. Vast aims to fill that gap. AI requires immediate access to specialized and proprietary data, and Vast’s focus on real-time AI retrieval, supported by a globally consistent atomic file system, aims to ensure data is always available and up-to-date, Gold added.
“What Vast is trying to do is: ‘I don’t care where your data is, just point us to the data will be the consolidator. We’ll bring it in, we’ll put it into one format, we’ll be able to do it in real time,'” he said. “We’re breaking down the silos of data into more of a plane if you will, a mesh, that’s very valuable for RAG because that’s what gets you to the real-time environment. If you can’t do this in real time, then RAG doesn’t work for most people.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the Vast Presents: Enter the Cosmos event:
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Vast Presents: Enter the Cosmos event. Neither Vast Data Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)