Megaport arranges to use VAST Data's AI OS

Megaport has signed a deal with VAST Data to advance its automated infrastructure platform as the company expands into compute and AI infrastructure services.

Under the agreement, Megaport will use the VAST AI Operating System to enable enterprises to run compute and GPU services across multiple environments, including on-premise, in the cloud and at the network edge. The solutions will combine Megaport’s private, programmable connectivity across more than 1100 data centres and the automated bare-metal compute and GPU services of its recent acquisition, Latitude.sh, with VAST Data’s unified enterprise data services.

The company says the result will be a global services fabric designed to help its customers rapidly deploy distributed AI workloads where they need them most.

The VAST DataSpace solution will extend Megaport’s platform with a global namespace, so customers can access and manage data across environments without creating new silos or unnecessary duplicates.

Megaport EVP for Global Innovation Michael van Rooyen said the AI revolution is changing the way enterprises approach their IT environments.

“Enterprises are no longer thinking about networking, compute and data as separate decisions,” he said. “They want infrastructure that is automated, global and flexible enough to support what AI requires next.

“VAST gives us one software layer to support enterprise data services across both Megaport and Latitude.sh, allowing us to expand beyond connectivity into the services layer customers need to build and scale modern AI workloads, with fewer operational silos and a faster path from distributed infrastructure to production AI.”

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