Vast Data Expands

Vast Data, Inc. broadened its international expansion plans as it continues to modernize the legacy storage infrastructure market:

• The company has opened up operations in the UK, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, Czech Republic, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and Korea. These will now be followed by further expansion across EMEA with Benelux, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Nordics, and in Asia with Japan.

• It has also signed agreements with distribution partners across its international territories, including Spinnaker in the UK, Arrow Electronics in Europe, Logicom in Middle East and Africa, TechData in Australia, ASI in New Zealand and ASBISc Enterprises PLC in Russia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe.

• Under the leadership of Peter Gadd, VP international, all territories will be supported by in-region sales, technical support, marketing and customer services functions.

By increasing its global footprint, the company will be positioned to help more organizations unlock the value of their data, modernize their data centers, and prepare for the era of AI computing.

This expansion correlates with a global appetite for the firm’s offering as an alternative to antiquated HDD storage systems:

• Since its launch in 2019, the company has become the fastest-selling infrastructure start-up in history.

• Firm‘s Universal Storage platform offers organizations an alternative to complex, cumbersome and costly legacy storage architectures.

• Universal Storage addresses the challenges and compromises of scale, performance, efficiency and cost, helping data-driven organizations solve their strategic storage challenges in AI, big data and analytics, as well as data protection.

• International customers that have already chosen the firm’s Universal Storage include Krystal in the UK, CeGaT in Germany, DUG in Australia and Agoda in Singapore.

Idan Zalzberg, chief data officer, Agoda (a Booking Holdings subsidiary) based in Singapore said: “Customer information and travel supplier data are our most vital assets and we need a data science platform that can easily and cost-effectively scale with our growth. To help provide our customers with the best value for their travel needs we require a high-performance, infinitely scalable big data solution, like Vast Data’s Universal Storage solution, to run our machine learning algorithms.”

Stuart Midgley, CIO, DUG Technology, specialist in HPC based in Australia said: “Our complete HPCaaS ecosystem is a combination of innovative software and hardware solutions. After using the same storage solution for years, we required a new approach – one that was highly performant, resilient and adaptive. Vast Data’s promise of ‘no compromises’ has provided faster I/O, consistent performance and supreme data integrity for our DUG McCloud customers. It is changing our relationship with data, driving novel ways to mine, process and visualise big data. This allows us and our clients to gain new knowledge and insight in much shorter time frames.”

Tim Scheurenbrand, director, IT, CeGaT GmbH, global provider in genetic analysis based in Germany said: “Our storage capabilities are the backbone of our mission to help identify the genetic causes and best treatment options for rare diseases. Without an adaptive, scalable infrastructure that can grow with our needs, we simply cannot process these diagnoses in time. Compared to the many storage technologies out there, Vast’s all-flash storage delivered all of the above and allowed us to reduce the time taken to process sample data from 24-48 hours to just two hours. Every second counts for patients waiting for a diagnosis, and the implications of Vast’s technology and the speed at which we can now process diagnosis is quite literally life-saving.”

Simon Blackler, CEO, Krystal Hosting Ltd., a purpose-driven internet services company based in UK said: “Storage is at the heart of any cloud platform. More than 30,000 clients trust us to look after their data, and we take that responsibility very seriously. Cutting corners on your storage layer could keep you up at night, but with Vast, I sleep soundly, knowing that our data is in exceptional hands. Vast’s Universal Storage, based on its revolutionary DASE (Disaggregated, Shared Everything) architecture, was the only storage solution that could satisfy our exacting requirements for performance, scale, cost, and manageability. With Vast we can out-service and out-innovate the cloud giants, enabling us to deliver our customers shared services with higher performance at a lower price point.”

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