Certified reference designs and cloud-managed provisioning reduce operational overhead and accelerate time-to-value for AI and data workloads.
Overview
VAST Data Platform for Cisco
Reimagining AI Infrastructure
VAST Data and Cisco deliver a modern, full-stack infrastructure designed for the AI era. By unifying compute, network, and storage with cloud-managed simplicity, organizations can deploy faster, operate more efficiently, and scale with confidence. This joint solution powers everything from model training to real-time analytics and cyber resilience, bringing intelligence, security, and performance to every layer of the enterprise data pipeline.
Overview
The AI Foundation for the Modern Enterprise
The VAST Data Platform and Cisco's networking and compute innovations deliver a next-generation data infrastructure optimized for AI and modern enterprise workloads. This full-stack solution integrates VAST’s high-performance, disaggregated storage architecture with Cisco’s UCS servers, Cisco Nexus switching, and Hyperfabric AI clusters, simplifying operations and empowering customers to unlock the full potential of their data.
Simplicity
Flexibility
Scale across edge, data center, and cloud environments with consistent performance, security, and data access.
Observability
Gain full visibility into data flows, performance, and infrastructure health across every layer, enabled by VAST Data Flows and Cisco Nexus monitoring.
Chosen by Visionaries. Trusted by Cisco
Why VAST specifically? Because a lot of the customers that we've spoken to that are doing very sophisticated work in AI are choosing VAST.
Jeetu Patel
Chief Product Officer, Cisco Systems
Unified, AI-Ready Infrastructure
Supports modern AI and enterprise workloads with seamless integration from edge to core to cloud.
Enterprise Grade Performance & Security
Delivers low latency, high throughput, and zero-trust architecture for mission-critical applications.
Real-Time Data Movement & Processing
Optimizes AI and analytics pipelines with intelligent streaming and multi-protocol data access.
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Ready
Deploys flexibly across public/private clouds and Cisco infrastructure, backed by global observability.
AI-Optimized Platform
Train, infer, analyze; all in a unified, high-performance data foundation with support for Cisco UCS.
Backup, Recovery & Analytics Ready
Streamline protection and data analytics with integrations for Commvault, Veeam, Splunk, and big data tools.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI: Full-Stack Simplicity
Cisco HyperFabric AI delivers a turnkey, cloud-managed infrastructure stack that is purpose-built for enterprise AI. By combining Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, VAST Data’s disaggregated architecture, and Cisco Nexus switching, HyperFabric streamlines the deployment and management of AI environments.
With zero-touch provisioning, preconfigured fabrics, and centralized visibility through Cisco Intersight and VAST Insights, organizations can deploy faster, scale effortlessly, and maintain full control across the stack. HyperFabric is engineered for AI—from training to inference—ensuring consistent performance, security, and operational efficiency from edge to core to cloud.
When we look at the partnership between VAST and Cisco as an easy button for the entire spectrum of AI deployment.
Jake Katz
VP Product Management, AI Solutions, Cisco Systems
Real-World Performance. Proven Use Cases.
Powering the most demanding AI, enterprise, and HPC applications.
AI & Deep Learning
VAST Data and Cisco deliver the performance, simplicity, and scalability required to support the most demanding AI environments, enabling enterprises to train, infer, and scale faster.
Supports multi-tenant GPU clusters for model training and inference at scale
Optimized throughput for LLMs and generative AI pipelines
Seamless data movement from ingest to model training using VAST's disaggregated architecture
Designed for Cisco UCS deployments with integrated BlueField DPUs Cloud-managed infrastructure for faster deployment and operations
Data Analytics
Accelerate insights across structured and unstructured data with a unified platform that supports modern analytics stacks, including real-time pipelines and large-scale data lakes.
Unified support for file, object, and tabular data across Splunk, Hadoop, and Kafka-based environments
Seamless integration into Cisco’s high-throughput Cisco Nexus switching fabric
Multi-protocol access simplifies data ingestion and downstream analytics Ideal for enterprise-scale observability, monitoring, and business intelligence workloads
Built-in telemetry and VAST Data Flows ensure continuous performance optimization
Cyber Resilience & Backup/Recovery
Simplify data protection while maximizing uptime, availability, and compliance with a secure and scalable infrastructure that supports today’s leading backup and cyber resilience tools.
Deep integration with Commvault, Veeam, and modern backup frameworks
Instant restore and near-zero RPO/RTO through all-flash architecture
End-to-end data encryption and tenant-level key isolation
Zero-trust design with granular access controls for multi-tenant security
Immutable snapshots, object lock, and policy-based retention for ransomware defense
Key Benefits
Why VAST + Cisco: Built for What’s Next
Unlock the full potential of your data with an AI-ready foundation that’s secure, efficient, and built to scale with your enterprise.
Streamlined AI Infrastructure Deployment
Accelerate time-to-value with validated architectures, cloud-managed provisioning, and seamless integration across Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, and VAST Data.
Elastic Performance for Growing AI Demands
Support evolving AI and analytics workloads with architecture that adapts as data volumes and compute needs expand.
End-to-End Data Access from Edge to Cloud
Eliminate silos with a unified platform for file, object, and table data, delivering consistent performance across hybrid environments.
Proactive Observability Across the Stack
Maintain operational confidence with built-in telemetry and full-stack visibility from Cisco Intersight and VAST Data Flows.
Zero-Trust Security by Design
Secure your data with encryption at rest and in flight, multi-tenant isolation, and policy-based access controls.
Maximized GPU Efficiency and ROI
Increase AI throughput and reduce idle cycles with high-speed access to AI-ready data, boosting GPU utilization and lowering infrastructure costs.
Resources
Innovation begins with understanding
Blog Post
Introducing the EBox: Compact Power and Resilience for Today’s Data Centers
This post introduces the VAST EBox and a groundbreaking metadata triplication feature, revolutionizing data resilience in large-scale deployments.
Press Release
VAST Data Expands Partnership with Cisco to Deliver End-to-End, Full Stack AI Infrastructure
Bundling the VAST Data Platform natively on Cisco UCS servers for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI, customers can access a fully-optimized AI solution stack.
Solution Brief
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch Support
Cisco and VAST Data boost AI infrastructure with Nexus 9000 switches, offering scalable, high-performance networking for modern AI workloads.