Since announcing InsightEngine earlier this year, our work with NVIDIA to simplify Enterprise RAG has dominated customer conversations. Our unique architectural approach enables organizations to deploy AI as a secure, scalable solution across their entire business, not just for pilots and point solutions.
At GTC this spring in San Jose, Taipei and Paris, we demonstrated real-time video search, complex document retrieval, and advanced reasoning agents, all powered by the VAST AI Operating System.
But these AI pipelines exposed a critical gap. While they excel at activating data that is already on the VAST AI OS, customers consistently tell us they want to unlock all of their data. And that data is distributed across dozens of systems like GDrive and SharePoint, CRM platforms like Salesforce, as well as legacy file and object stores spread across on-premises and cloud environments.
This is the “last mile” problem standing between every enterprise and their AI potential. Connecting these huge quantities of distributed data to a powerful AI pipeline is the final hurdle. Clear this obstacle, and organizations can deploy AI across their entire business instead of just isolated use cases.
What If You Could See and Mobilize Everything?
The “last mile” problem is exactly why we built VAST SyncEngine. Accessing the data you already own shouldn't be the hardest part of your AI journey.
SyncEngine is a data router that performs as a discovery and migration tool for unstructured data, built to connect your scattered enterprise data to your AI ambitions. Included in the VAST AI Operating System, it combines two critical functions:
A universal data catalog to see your entire data estate
A scalable, high-performance migration engine to move data easily
From Data Silos to Strategic Insight
Before SyncEngine, the path from raw data to insight involved familiar challenges:
Limited Visibility: Valuable data lives across legacy systems and modern applications, making it impossible to get a complete picture for AI models
Complex Manual Labor: Data engineers spend countless cycles on manual data preparation, migration scripts, and wrangling, instead of focusing on higher-value work
Costly, Disjointed Tools: Organizations often rely on multiple third-party tools for data cataloging, migration, and AI preparation, increasing both TCO and complexity
SyncEngine addresses these challenges by connecting all your scattered data to your AI initiatives on the VAST AI OS.
You See Everything: SyncEngine creates a single, comprehensive catalog of your data, no matter where it lives. Your entire data estate - from file shares to Salesforce records - becomes visible and searchable from one interface.
You Move Effortlessly: Once you identify valuable data, SyncEngine provides a high-performance pathway to the VAST AI OS. It’s an enterprise-grade data mover that securely synchronizes data from any source, ensuring your AI applications work with the latest information.
You Accelerate AI: SyncEngine handles the first step in your AI pipeline. It prepares and copies your raw, unstructured data to the VAST DataStore, where VAST InsightEngine then performs the AI ETL operations, triggering the necessary transformation processes - like chunking and vectorizing - enabling advanced AI operations, like RAG.
From Scattered Data to AI Action: The Benefits of a Unified Approach
SyncEngine integrates directly with the VAST AI Operating System to streamline how you manage your data. It closes the gap between where your data lives today and where it needs to be to fuel your AI ambitions, turning raw data into actionable insight.
This journey is powered by a clear, three-step workflow: unify your data, transform it, and act on it.
SyncEngine (Unify Data): Acts as a powerful data router, tackling the “last mile” problem head-on. It is a data discovery and migration tool for unstructured and SaaS data designed to connect your scattered enterprise data to your AI ambitions. Included in the VAST AI OS, it provides a universal data catalog to see your entire data estate and a high-performance migration engine to move that data effortlessly onto the VAST platform.
InsightEngine (Transform Data): Once SyncEngine securely synchronizes your data, InsightEngine takes over to handle the AI ETL. It prepares the raw, unstructured data by triggering essential transformation processes like chunking and vectorizing. This step is vital for enabling advanced AI operations like RAG and any LangChain-based application to gain insight from endless amounts of unstructured data, turning your information into a format that AI models can readily use.
AgentEngine (Act on Data): The final step is to act. While any LangChain based application can directly leverage vectorized data provided by InsightEngine, AgentEngine serves as the Agent runtime and data retrieval tools layer for agentic AI. It utilizes the AI-ready data prepared by InsightEngine to perform tasks, answer queries, and drive intelligent workflows, with upcoming releases extending inference time data retrieval to additional sources via agent tool kits.
This integrated pipeline (SyncEngine > InsightEngine > AgentEngine) provides a streamlined, cost-effective path from distributed, siloed data to tangible, AI-powered business outcomes. The journey to AI doesn’t have to be slowed down by the very data that’s meant to fuel it. With the new VAST SyncEngine, you can solve the last-mile data problem and move from scattered data to AI-powered insights across your business.
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