VAST Data Supports Canada’s Sovereign AI Strategy with Hypertec Cloud Collaboration
NEW YORK and MONTRÉAL, Jan. 30, 2025 — VAST Data, the AI data platform company, today announced a strategic partnership with Hypertec Cloud to increase domestic compute capacity across Canada and North America, enabling organizations with highly scalable, efficient, performant and secure AI cloud infrastructure.
In support of the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, VAST, together with Hypertec Cloud, will provide Canadian innovators, businesses, researchers and government agencies with access to the accelerated compute capacity they need to pursue groundbreaking research and deliver made-in-Canada AI solutions, while safeguarding Canadian data, ensuring sovereignty and promoting leadership in the rapidly evolving global AI landscape.
“Canada has been at the forefront of AI innovation,” said Pezhman Sharifi, Sales Director for Canada at VAST Data. “VAST is committed to helping Canadian businesses continue to innovate and grow by leveraging the advantages of AI for generations to come.”
As data volumes from generative AI (GenAI) apps and tools increase, data centers face critical demands for scalable and efficient solutions to manage increasing AI training and inference workloads. Addressing this challenge, the VAST Data Platform structures data to enable seamless management and access across various cloud environments and is integral to enhancing Hypertec Cloud infrastructure for AI deployment scalability and performance.
“Our partnership with VAST Data is transforming how AI infrastructures are designed and deployed,” said Jonathan Ahdoot, President of Hypertec Cloud. “As demonstrated with our first successful major AI deployment of over 1,000 GPUs in the U.S., completed in just a few weeks, VAST was pivotal in ensuring efficient data management and boosting AI performance to help Hypertec Cloud meet a tight deployment timeline. Together we’re addressing the most pressing challenges in AI scalability and performance with an eye toward driving innovation and sustainability at every level.”
Hypertec Cloud recently announced a major expansion that will integrate VAST’s data platform to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs across North America by early 2025 in order to better meet the accelerating demand for AI applications, while ensuring system reliability and energy efficiency – marking a major milestone in the company’s AI strategy. VAST is a certified high-performance storage partner in the NVIDIA Partner Network that provides services to NVIDIA Cloud Partners, which makes the VAST Data Platform ideal for Hypertec Cloud’s massive deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing.
With VAST, Hypertec Cloud already delivers AI infrastructure solutions and services with the scalability, efficiency, and reliability to empower joint customers like Together AI and Zyphra[1] to meet the increasing demands of a wide array of AI training, inference and fine-tuning workloads.
Hypertec Cloud uses VAST’s unified end-to-end platform to simplify and optimize compute and storage systems for performance and energy-efficiency, providing organizations with:
- Large-Scale, Reliable AI Cloud Infrastructure: Hypertec Cloud offers tailor-built, massive-capacity GPU clusters, paired with VAST’s exabyte-scale unstructured data storage to provide the speed, performance, security and reliability required for enterprise, research or federal AI use cases.
- Access to Data Anywhere, without Tradeoffs: VAST’s global namespace delivers fast access to all of an organizations data across on-premises, cloud or edge environments, allowing Hypertec Cloud customers to seamlessly share and move their data across different regions.
- Multimodal Database to End Unstructured Data Era: Joint customers now have access to a vector database with transactional and analytical capabilities that lay the foundation for the semantic layer of AI training and inference systems, and is able to build table stores that support trillions of vectors, making it possible to index an entire enterprise.
- Simplified AI IaaS Solutions: Easy to use infrastructure designed and optimized for AI training, inference and fine-tuning workloads regardless of size or complexity, with a containerized compute engine that will enrich and enable data-driven AI pipelines. With the VAST Data InsightEngine with NVIDIA, organizations can further accelerate business insights by making enterprise data instantly usable for AI-driven decision-making. This enables faster economical, and highly efficient deployments for VAST and Hypertec Cloud clients with tailored-built clusters leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
“VAST Data was founded on the idea that tomorrow’s AI and deep learning applications would require a new class of data infrastructure – and a new class of AI-ready clouds like Hypertec Cloud – that could handle the world’s most demanding AI workloads at scale,” said Chris Morgan, Vice President, AI Solutions at VAST Data. “The VAST Data Platform, built on our DASE architecture, was developed from the ground up to address this need – seamlessly unifying storage, database management and containerized compute services in a single, scalable platform for cloud service providers and enterprises alike.”
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the data platform company built for the AI era. As the new standard for enterprise AI infrastructure, organizations trust the VAST Data Platform to serve their most data-intensive computing needs. VAST Data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of all of their data by providing AI infrastructure that is simple, scalable, and architected from the ground up to power deep learning and GPU-accelerated data centers and clouds. Launched in 2019, VAST Data is the fastest growing data infrastructure company in history.
Source: VAST Data