Vast Data Universal Storage Architecture V.3 With Support for Windows and MacOS Applications, Cloud Data Replication and Native Encryption

Vast Data, Inc. launched V.3 of its Universal Storage architecture, which has more than 20 new features – including support for Windows and MacOS applications, cloud data replication and native encryption.

These innovations, which quickly follow the company’s $100 million series C funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation in mid-April, introduce capabilities for mission-critical enterprise and media customers who are eager to evolve beyond the hard drive and realize the potential of the firm’s Disaggregated, Shared-Everything (DASE) approach.

These latest Universal Storage updates allow enterprises to now marry all-flash performance with archive economics and scale to enable mission-critical and data-intensive enterprise production environments to consolidate their workflows and bring the power of flash storage and fast access to all of their data.

Highlights of release include:

SMB support for Windows and MacOS applications: The company has developed its own SMB server stack to power high throughput Windows and Mac applications. This solution enables enterprise customers to multi-protocol access between NFS and SMB as well as the performance needed for M&E organizations. In addition, the company’s ultra-resilient SMB server enables failover of SMB clients where legacy NAS storage systems force customers to take a downtime event.
Cloud-based backups: Snap-to-Object feature allows customers to protect their critical data assets by snapshotting data to another company’s system, an on-premises S3 storage system or the cloud service of their choosing. This low-cost form of system backup enables customers to no longer be reliant on a second data center to implement DR strategies for their file and object data.
Native encryption at rest: Version 3 will encrypt user data at rest using FIPS-class AES-256 when it is stored to 3D XPoint and QLC flash. This further strengthens the firm’s security protocols and provides customers peace of mind that their information remains secure.
Enhanced data reduction for unstructured data: This release enables the company to showcase its ‘Similarity-Based Data Reduction’ and delivers storage gains to customers who have never experienced any data reduction from their legacy storage options, thereby making flash affordable for all applications.

Examples include:
- Hedge fund saved 90% on their time-series storage capacity
- Major studio saved 67% on animation storage capacity
- Splunk users save over 70% in storage capacity vs legacy direct-attached methods

And more – With over 20 features in this release, additional updates include enhanced user behavior monitoring, new performance improvements and management features that make it easy to deploy and scale Universal Storage.

“Vast’s Universal Storage platform is fundamentally changing the way that enterprises think about storage as there has never been a single system where customers could fathom consolidating so many diverse workloads without compromise,” said Jeff Denworth, VP, products, and co-founder. “On the heels of our historic first year of customer adoption, V.3 is the launch vehicle that brings Universal Storage to enterprises, government customers, and content organizations who have suffered under the weight of legacy storage and storage tiering. In doing so, customers can now liberate themselves from the performance, scalability, and economic trade-offs of shared-nothing and tiered scale-out storage architectures.”

“Vast Data’s Universal Storage has the promise to revolutionize customer workflows and dramatically simplify the cost, capacity, scale and resilience problems that have plagued scale-out storage for over a decade,” said Aaron Cardenas, founder and CEO, P1 Technologies, a media solutions reseller. “We’re delighted to partner with Vast Data after witnessing the excitement and anticipation across their customer community. V.3 is the beginning of helping our media customers see the benefits of consolidating workflows onto Universal Storage and accelerating and simplifying the creative process.”