Vast revs up SyncEngine to drive data mobility
Data mobility is of paramount importance… a) always, regardless b) especially in the age of multi-cloud distributed computing c) due to the now widely variegated information landscape that AI language models draw their lifeblood from and d) all of the above and a whole host of other fundamental validations for data mobility that we have yet to mention.
Vast Data (stylised as VAST) has revved up its data mobily playbook with Vast SyncEngine, a new capability within the Vast AI OS.
Universal data router
SyncEngine acts as a universal data router, which means it is capable of unifying a high-performance onboarding solution with a global catalogue to accelerate the flow of data into AI pipelines.
This technology is promised to eliminate the friction of discovering and mobilising distributed unstructured datasets and enterprise SaaS platforms.
According to Vast, we’re now at a point where we’re beginning to see organisations deploy AI at scale, so infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting.
“The biggest constraint today isn’t just model complexity or GPU supply, but the data itself – scattered across outdated file and object systems, siloed inside enterprise SaaS applications, and invisible to AI pipelines. This data fragmentation creates the ‘last mile’ problem, where valuable information remains out of reach and teams are forced to stitch together costly third-party tools just to find, prepare, and move data,” said the company, in a press statement.
Vast says that SyncEngine eliminates this complexity by collapsing cataloguing, migration and transformation into a single capability of the Vast AI OS.
“The future of AI belongs to those who can harness all of their data, not just what’s conveniently available,” said Jeff Denworth, co-founder of Vast Data. “Data sprawl is the silent killer of enterprise AI strategies, and SyncEngine ends that problematic era. Legacy IT created silos, and we’re tearing them down. Whether your data is buried in on-prem systems or hidden in SaaS apps, SyncEngine makes it all accessible, visible, and valuable. We’re giving customers a direct path from where their data lives today to where AI transformation begins, inside the Vast AI Operating System.”
SyncEngine enables IT teams to unify data estate across legacy systems and modern business applications.
Petabytes & exabytes
It’s all about delivering AI-ready data with the ability to index trillions of files and manage multi-petabyte to exabyte datasets, SyncEngine allows enterprises to search, synchronise and prepare data wherever it resides, without costly replatforming or infrastructure changes.
By making distributed data searchable, actionable and AI-ready, Vast says that SyncEngine accelerates AI velocity without requiring 3rd party migration tools or complex manual scripting. As such, SyncEngine is purpose-built for massive file and object datasets and Enterprise SaaS platforms. It is has unlimited ingest throughput i.e. the technology is bound only by source and target system performance.
In summary, Vast says that SyncEngine replaces expensive standalone tools and complex open source options, simplifying data cataloguing and migration, with integrated intelligence.
