VAST Data partners with Google Cloud

VAST Data has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, aiming to enable customers to deploy the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as a fully managed service and connect clusters of servers running in Google Cloud and on-premises locations.

Organisations can run production AI workloads on Google Cloud today against existing on-premises datasets without migration planning, transfer delays, or extended compliance cycles, presenting a consistent global namespace of data across on-prem and Google Cloud.

Companies can also stream only the subsets that models require to avoid full replication and reduce egress, as well as choose what to migrate, replicate, or cache to Google Cloud while keeping one namespace and consistent governance by applying unified access controls, audit, and retention policies.

The VAST AI Operating System delivers a DataStore, DataBase, InsightEngine, AgentEngine and DataSpace that scales across on-premises and Google Cloud environments and adapts to changing business needs without architectural rewrites, enabling data scientists to use a variety of access protocols with a single solution.

“Through our partnership with Google Cloud, we’re meeting customers where they are by delivering a fully managed AI OS,” said Jeff Denworth, co-founder at VAST Data.

“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.”

“Bringing VAST AI Operating System to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage, and grow the data solution on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure,” said Nirav Mehta, VP of compute platform at Google Cloud.

“VAST can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys.”

VAST can be deployed today in Google Cloud. Joint validation and reference guidance for establishing a VAST DataSpace spanning Google Cloud and external clusters are available to qualified customers and partners.