VAST Data expands enterprise AI alliance with Google Cloud

AI operating system company VAST Data has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to enable customers to deploy the VAST Data AI OS as a fully managed service across hybrid cloud environments.

Under the expanded agreement, enterprises will be able to connect clusters running in Google Cloud and in on-premises locations using the VAST DataSpace, a platform designed to provide customers with continuous access to their data. VAST asserts that the platform is able to seamlessly connect data clusters at distances of more than 10,000 km, which enables organisations to run AI models on computing architecture across multiple countries without duplicating data or managing separate environments.

The solution is available for deployment now in markets including Australia, where Google Cloud holds about 20% of the cloud computing market.

Qualified customers and partners are also able to access joint validation and reference guidance for establishing a VAST DataSpace spanning Google Cloud and external clusters.

VAST Data co-founder Jeff Denworth said the partnership with Google Cloud is aimed at meeting customers where they are.

“When leveraging our global namespace with intelligent streaming, Google Cloud customers can auto-deploy a VAST-managed cluster via Google Cloud Marketplace and start production in minutes, providing integrated governance and billing, elastic scale, and supporting the hybrid cloud mission — and it’s all handled by VAST, making enterprise data instantly usable for agentic workloads,” he said.

The platform can help organisations reduce data movement costs by allowing them to stream only the subsets that models require, he said. The VAST AI Operating System also has data storage, data base, insight engine and agent engine capabilities that scale across on-premises and Google Cloud environments.

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