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AI Operating System provider, VAST Data has expanded its strategic partnership with Cisco to offer a turnkey platform for building enterprise AI
Factories. Together, the companies are seeking to deliver a fully integrated and validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage, and observability. More significantly for the tech scale-up, the VAST AI Operating System is now available directly through Cisco’s Global Price List and is fully supported by Cisco as part of the joint solution.
As we have noted before, VAST Data is quite a difficult tech company to fit neatly into a category. It is neither a storage business nor a database provider but offers both as it looks to capaitalise on the demand for data infrastructure and data management, driven by explosion in demand by AI and Machine Learning adoption. VAST Data helps organisations manage large and complex data sets that are increasingly becoming the life blood of AI-driven business models.
Founded in 2016, the AI OS specialist launched onto the market three years later and today generates annual revenue of around $200m. VAST Data, which counts NVIDIA among its investors, has seen its valuation skyrocket since the start of the decade. The company’s most funding round priced it at $9.1bn, up from $3.7bn just thirty months earlier (see here).
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:32
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