Vast Data Shatters Industry Business Performance Benchmarks in 6 Months Following Launch

VAST Data, Inc., in the use of QLC Flash, Intel Optane and NVMe-oF with algorithms to break decades-old storage tradeoffs, announced a series of business milestones demonstrating its Data’s global product adoption, corporate momentum and the growing support for its Universal Storage concept across the industry.

Business Performance
Since the formal launch of the company back in February, VAST Data’s Universal Storage technology has been deployed by dozens of organizations around the world – several of whom already have multi-petabyte systems powering their production applications. To date, VAST has delivered over 50PB of all-flash Universal Storage capacity to leading data centric computing centers. VAST has had the most successful first year of any company in data storage history.

To put VAST’s market traction into perspective, below is a comparison of the company’s sales as compared to several successful public storage companies:

• It sold more in its first 3 months of GA than what Pure Storage sold in their first year

• It has sold more after its first full 2 quarters than Isilon’s first 2 years combined

• It has sold more after its first full 2 quarters than Data Domain’s first 2 years combined

“When we started VAST Data, we believed that transformational improvements in the customer experience could result in unprecedented early stage product adoption. To achieve this mission we invested heavily in building a robust, simple and scalable platform that made it easy to test and gain trust in VAST Data’s game changing architecture upon general availability,” said Jeff Denworth, VP of products and co-founder, VAST. “Our progress to date serves as an early validation of our business plan, and a harbinger of even bigger milestones to come.”

Continued Innovation
In separate news, VAST Data announced the availability of version 2.0 of its Universal Storage architecture, which includes no-compromise continuous snapshots, accelerated support for AI applications and asymmetric cluster expansion. These innovations are designed to increase performance and resiliency for today’s data intensive applications while also preserving investments as enterprises grapple with storage challenges associated with data growth.

Global Strategic Partnership with Intel
Universal Storage offering is being showcased by Intel as a modern application of Intel Optane Technology, QLC Flash and Scalable Xeon Processors. The firm’s story will be showcased as part of a marketing activities coordinated by Intel Corp. with a focus on transforming data centers and applications.

“Intel developed our Intel Optane DC SSD and QLC Intel 3D NAND products to deliver a strong combination of performance and capacity in storage solutions, and we’re pleased that VAST Data is able to pass these benefits to their customers in their new Universal Storage platform.” Said Chris Tobias, direct of marketing, Intel Optane solutions. “These latest product enhancements by VAST Data demonstrate how Intel Optane SSDs, Intel QLC Flash and Intel Scalable Xeon Processor technology can be combined with innovative software to advance the state of modern applications and provide an all-silicon foundation for the artificial intelligence era.”

VAST employs more than 100 people across three continents and recently added Ehud Rokach as executive director. Prior to that, he served as the SVP and GM of the XtremIO offering at EMC. He was the CEO and co-founder of XtremIO prior to the company’s acquisition by EMC.

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March 1, 2019 | Press Release