Human beings have proven themselves to be good at many different things, but when push comes to shove, there still remains an awful little than we do better than growing on a consistent basis. This pledge to improve, no matter the situation, has brought the world some huge milestones, with technology emerging as quite a major member of the stated group. The reason why we hold technology in such a high regard is, by and large, predicated upon its skill-set, which guided us towards a reality that nobody could have ever imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, if we look beyond the surface for one hot second, it will become clear how the whole runner was also very much inspired from the way we applied those across a real world environment. The latter component, in fact, did a lot to give the creation a spectrum-wide presence, and as a result, initiated a full-blown tech revolution. Of course, the next thing this revolution was to scale up the human experience through some outright unique avenues, but even after reaching so far ahead, this prodigious concept will some continue to bring forth the right goods. The same has turned more and more evident in recent times, and assuming one new data-centric development ends up with the desired impact, it will only put that trend on a higher pedestal moving forward.
VAST Data, an AI data platform company, has officially signed off on a partnership with Genesis Cloud, to make AI and accelerated cloud computing more efficient, scalable, and accessible for organizations across the globe. As a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider of GPUs and accelerators in the cloud, Genesis Cloud is already known for helping businesses optimize their AI training and inference pipeline by offering them, at scale, the neccesary performance and capacity on various AI projects. However, owing to the partnership in question, the company will now use the VAST Data Platform to build the most comprehensive set of AI data services ever witnessed in the industry. This translates to a highly automated infrastructure with exceptional performance and hyperscaler efficiency, an infrastructure which should eventually birth new generation of AI initiatives and Large Language Models. But how will the partners achieve the stated goal on a more actionable level? Well, for starters, they will bring to the fore that multitency which is essential for enabling concurrent user access across public cloud. Here, VAST will allow multiple disparate organizations to share access to the VAST DataStore, and therefore, make it possible for Genesis to allocate orders as needed, all while delivering unparalleled performance. Next up, the partners will try and simplify workflows. This they will do by reinventing the usual data management mechanism. You see, managing the data required to train LLMs is a complex data science process, but in their joint bid, VAST and Genesis will bank upon the former’s high performance, single tier, and feature rich data capabilities to manufacture services that simplify and streamline data set preparation. This gives us a chance to facilitate model training in a much more effective manner. Then, there is prospect of improved GPU utilization which reveals itself once you consider VAST’s data platform should go a long way when the agenda is to provide real-time access to data across public and private clouds. Such a mechanism, in turn, should eliminate all those data loading bottlenecks to ensure high GPU utilization, better overall efficiency, and at the same time, a lower cost proposition. Not just operational prowess, though, the partnership will also dedicate sizeable amount of focus towards security in the context of a cloud environment. This will be largely achieved through the implementation of a Zero Trust security strategy, which will provide superior security for AI/ML and analytics workloads of Genesis Cloud customers so to let them gain regulatory compliance and maintain the security around their most sensitive data in the cloud. Rounding up highlights would be how the partners will further look to bring a set of robust enterprise features, features that will be tasked with drumming up future business opportunities. In practice, the stated promise talks to VAST Data Platform’s ability to pack together storage, database, and global namespace capabilities. The result springing out here would be new and unique productization opportunities for service providers.
“To complement Genesis Cloud’s market-leading compute services, we needed a world-class partner at the data layer that could withstand the rigors of data-intensive AI workloads across multiple geographies,” said Dr. Stefan Schiefer, CEO at Genesis Cloud. “The VAST Data Platform was the obvious choice, bringing performance, scalability and simplicity paired with rich enterprise features and functionality. Throughout our assessment, we were incredibly impressed not just with VAST’s capabilities and product roadmap, but also their enthusiasm around the opportunity for co-development on future solutions.”
Fair enough, founded in 2019, VAST Data has risen up by introducing a whole new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure. This the company has done through meaningful leaps across areas like cloud storage, data storage, flash storage, universal storage, deep learning, All flash, QLC flash, NVMe, Data Center Architecture, File and Object Storage, database, software, and more. Known as the fastest selling data infrastructure startup in history, VAST’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it has served a whole assortment of heavyweights, including Zoom, Pixar, Nvidia, NASA, US Department of Defense, ingenuity, Verizon, NIH, and Allen Institute etc.
“VAST is allowing us to put all of our rendered assets on one tireless cluster of storage, which offers us the ability to use these petabytes of data as training data for future AI applications. We’ve already moved all of our denoising data, ‘finals’ and ‘takes’ data sets onto the VAST Data Platform, specifically because of the AI capabilities this allows us to take advantage of in the future,” said Eric Bermender, Head of Data Center & IT Infrastructure at Pixar Animation Studios.
As for Genesis Cloud, founded on 2016, it has made a name for itself by offering best-in-class infrastructure via a network of green HPC data centers that make a point to preach sustainability. Mind you, though, the sustainability bit shouldn’t mean the company is any less effective when it comes to leveraging the latest GPUs, along with a robust network and storage solution, to supercharge GenAI operations, and at the same time, seamlessly handle high-performance computing workloads. Also a leading provider of Nvidia reference architecture, Genesis Cloud is working towards a future where accelerated computing is more affordable.
“With the VAST Data Platform, Genesis Cloud offers organizations access to Europe’s most performant and efficient GPU-accelerated cloud services, optimized to suit the needs of their business – from speed, to scale, to security and compliance,” said Chris Morgan, Vice President, Solutions at VAST Data. “As VAST continues to expand our global presence in Europe and beyond, our partnership with Genesis Cloud allows us to serve our joint customers with flexible, high performance infrastructure solutions and services for their growing AI and inference pipelines
