ASI Solutions partners with VAST on managed service offering

National managed services provider ASI Solutions has partnered with VAST to offer the latter's data platform as a managed service.

The VAST Data Platform unifies storage, database and containerised compute engine services to support AI and GPU-accelerated tools in data centres and clouds.

ASI chose the platform to meet rising demand from customers to support their AI workloads and improve cyber resiliency.

“The VAST Data Platform offers enterprise features like data immutability that ensure an organisation’s data is secure and compliant by preventing the accidental or malicious deletion and modification of data,” said Lloyd Vickery, ASI country manager.

“Increasingly, we’re seeing cyber insurance companies mandate this capability to provide cover, but it’s difficult and costly doing it through a hyperscaler."

"VAST’s platform is also built into our local secure data centres, so the data sovereignty aspect is covered too.”

The VAST Data Platform helped ASI customer the University of Auckland to ensure operational data is reinjected into the University within hours of a ransomware attack.

The platform also helped Timaru District Council improve operations by consolidating its environment and broadening access to its business critical data and archived data.

“ASI needed a modern, multi-protocol data platform to not only underpin data protection but deliver for other mission critical workloads,” said Sunil Chavan, VP of Asia-Pacific and Japan at VAST Data.

"VAST Data’s all-flash performance, ransomware protection, similarity data reduction, and white glove support deliver a superior business outcome."

"The notion of data tiering to sub-optimal environments is obsolete and endemic to a broken data strategy."

"As organisations continue to expand their data sets and further explore AI and deep learning initiatives, they will require a data platform able to scale with them.”