AI data platform company VAST Data forged a strategic partnership with Hypertec Cloud to increase domestic compute capacity across Canada and North America, providing organizations with access to scalable, efficient, performant and secure AI cloud infrastructure.
VAST and Hypertec – in support of the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute strategy – will provide Canadian innovators, businesses, researchers and government agencies with access to the accelerated compute capacity to pursue research and deliver made-in-Canada AI solutions that safeguard Canadian data, ensuring sovereignty and promoting leadership in the global AI landscape.
“Canada has been at the forefront of AI innovation,” said Pezhman Sharifi, sales director for Canada, VAST Data. “VAST is committed to helping Canadian businesses continue to innovate and grow by leveraging the advantages of AI for generations to come.”
As data volumes from GenAI apps and tools increase, data centers face critical demands for scalable and efficient solutions to manage increasing AI training and inference workloads. Addressing this challenge, the VAST data platform structures data to enable seamless management and access across various cloud environments, and is integral to enhancing Hypertec cloud nfrastructure for AI deployment scalability and performance.
“Our partnership with VAST Data is transforming how AI infrastructures are designed and deployed,” said Hypertec Cloud president, Jonathan Ahdoot. “As demonstrated with our first successful major AI deployment of over 1,000 GPUs in the U.S., completed in just a few weeks, VAST was pivotal in ensuring efficient data management and boosting AI performance to help Hypertec Cloud meet a tight deployment timeline. Together we’re addressing the most pressing challenges in AI scalability and performance with an eye toward driving innovation and sustainability at every level.”
Hypertec Cloud recently announced a major expansion that will integrate VAST’s data platform to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs across North America, by early 2025, to better meet accelerating AI application demand, while ensuring system reliability and energy efficiency. VAST is a certified, high-performance storage partner in the NVIDIA partner network that provides services to NVIDIA cloud partners, making the VAST data platform ideal for Hypertec Cloud’s deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing.
Hypertec Cloud uses VAST’s unified end-to-end platform to simplify and optimize compute and storage systems for performance and energy-efficiency, providing organizations with:
- Large-scale, reliable AI cloud infrastructure.
- Access to data anywhere, without tradeoffs.
- Multimodal database to end unstructured data era.
- Streamlined AI IaaS solutions.
“VAST Data was founded on the idea that tomorrow’s AI and deep learning applications would require a new class of data infrastructure – and a new class of AI-ready clouds like Hypertec Cloud – that could handle the world’s most demanding AI workloads at scale,” said Chris Morgan, VP, AI Solutions, VAST Data. “The VAST Data Platform, built on our DASE architecture, was developed from the ground up to address this need – seamlessly unifying storage, database management and containerized compute services in a single, scalable platform for cloud service providers and enterprises alike.”
