AI initiatives are hampered by the inability to find and access relevant enterprise data spread across disconnected silos, including business applications and legacy storage systems.
Key Features
VAST SyncEngine
Turn Scattered Data Into AI Intelligence
See, search, and mobilize your entire data estate, from legacy storage to enterprise apps.
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The Data Accessibility & Activation Dilemma
Scattered & Siloed Data
Manual Data Wrangling
Data scientists spend valuable time on manual data preparation and migration instead of focusing on more impactful tasks, like model development and AI agent deployment.
Slow, Costly & Complex Tools
Organizations face significant costs and complexity from purchasing and integrating separate tools for data cataloging, migration, and AI preparation.
Key Features
Purpose Built For All Your Data
Universal Catalog
Create a single, comprehensive catalog of every file and object, no matter where it lives. SyncEngine gives you a unified view across all existing systems, making it easier to identify and access the data you need for AI workloads.
Data Migration Capabilities
The industry’s fastest, most scalable data mover architecture. Securely and efficiently synchronize data from any source—including enterprise apps and traditional storage—ensuring your AI applications have access to the latest information.
Data Pipeline Ingestion
The essential first step in your AI data pipeline. It acts as the “bootstrapper” or ETL process that prepares your raw data for the VAST DataEngine, triggering the embedding process (chunking, vectorizing) needed for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
One Integrated System
SyncEngine is a core component of the VAST AI OS, available to all VAST customers. This integrated approach reduces the need for separate data tools, lowering your total cost of ownership for enterprise AI initiatives.
Real-World Advantages
Data Discovery Without Limits
Comprehensive discovery and search capabilities across your entire data estate, regardless of where data lives or how much you have.
Streamlined AI Data Pipeline
The fastest, most cost-effective path from raw data to transformative AI insights.
Simplified Operations & Reduced TCO
Eliminates complex, manual data wrangling and the need for multiple, costly third-party tools. An enterprise-grade solution provided at no additional cost as a core part of the VAST platform
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Enterprise-Grade Capabilities
Universal Cataloging
Extends the VAST Catalog to include external data sources. Create a single, comprehensive catalog of every file and object, no matter where it lives, from file systems to enterprise applications.
Metadata Indexing
Provides metadata indexing capabilities for unstructured data repositories, supporting comprehensive cataloging and robust search across billions of unstructured files and objects.
Global Namespace
Establishes a multi-namespace global catalog within the VAST DataBase, offering a complete overview of your data assets.
High-Performance Migration
The industry’s most scalable data mover architecture provides a robust, high-performance on-ramp to the VAST AI OS. Features include bi-directional transfers, integrity verification, and automatic recovery.
POSIX & S3 Support
Enables efficient migration and synchronization of data from existing POSIX file systems (Dell, NetApp, Pure, Lustre, GPFS, etc) and S3 object storage directly to VAST clusters.
App Connectors
Supports data extraction, transformation, and loading from diverse sources such as Confluence, SharePoint, GDrive, and Salesforce.
AI Pipeline Integration
The essential first step in your AI data pipeline. SyncEngine prepares your raw data for the VAST InsightEngine, triggering vector embedding for RAG and agentic AI operations.
InsightEngine “RAG” Bootstrapper
Serves as a “bootstrapper” for data pipelines powered by the VAST DataEngine. It prepared raw content for the InsightEngine to initiative chunking and vectorizing for RAG and agentic AI operations.
Core Components of the VAST AI OS
DataStore
AI’s Infinite Memory
Stores exabytes of block, file and object data with all-flash performance and archive economics. Direct GPU access via GPUDirect Storage.
DataBase
AI’s Knowledge Base
A transactional data warehouse that indexes all data and vector embeddings in real-time. Query trillions of objects with millisecond response.
DataSpace
Global AI Fabric
Unifies edge-to-cloud into one coherent system empowering you to act on data when and where you need it, enabling continuous learning loops across any geography.
DataEngine
AI’s Nervous System
Universal computing with containerized Python runtime. Event-driven processing with Kafka-compatible streaming.
InsightEngine
Data Refinery
Transforms unstructured data into AI-understandable formats establishing context for AI discovery. Creates vector embeddings for AI Inference pipelines in real-time.
AgentEngine
Agent Orchestration
Application runtime and low-code studio for deploying millions of AI agents. Built-in tools, checkpointing, and deep observability.
Resources
Fastest Path From Raw Data to AI Insights
Blog Post
VAST SyncEngine Blog
The no-cost, enterprise-grade data discovery and migration tool that finally makes your entire data estate visible, mobile, and AI-ready.
Solution Brief
VAST SyncEngine: Your Entire Data Estate. Instantly Discoverable and AI-Ready.
Details on how VAST SyncEngine accelerates the journey from raw data to transformative AI insights by seamlessly indexing and onboarding information from scattered file, object, and enterprise application sources.
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Technical Document
VAST SyncEngine User Guide
Learn more about how SyncEngine works with this technical document.