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.

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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

Certified reference designs and cloud-managed provisioning reduce operational overhead and accelerate time-to-value for AI and data workloads.

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.

Simplicity

Certified reference designs and cloud-managed provisioning reduce operational overhead and accelerate time-to-value for AI and data workloads.

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. And when that happens, you know that there's something special, there's something magical that's going on, and we want to make sure that we partner with such companies. VAST was clearly one of the leaders that we wanted to make sure we partner with.

Jeetu Patel
Chief Product Officer, Cisco Systems

Built for Enterprise and AI-Driven Workloads

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.

Redefine the Time to First Insight

At the core of the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, the VAST InsightEngine is the intelligence that tears down the barriers to production AI. It transforms NVIDIA NIM microservices into a radically simple "NIM as a Service" by automating the entire AI pipeline and bringing compute directly to your data. This collapses the time to first insight from days to minutes. Stop building for yesterday's limitations; it's time to build for the speed of insight.

We are designing the architecture for how the enterprise will build the next generation of AI factories.

Jeremy Foster
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute

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

AI & Deep Learning

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

Data Analytics

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

Cyber Resilience & Backup/Recovery
Key Benefits

VAST + Cisco: The Unified AI Data Platform, Radically Simplified.

In partnership with Cisco and NVIDIA, we deliver the definitive platform for enterprise AI, cutting through infrastructure complexity and radically improving economics to move your business from storing data to using it.

Accelerate AI Beyond Convention

Stop wrestling with infrastructure. Our pre-validated platform with Cisco eradicates integration complexity, collapsing AI deployment from months to days. This frees your teams to innovate, not manage infrastructure.

Unify Data to Unleash Intelligence

Stop storing data and start using it. We collapse the entire data stack into a single platform, eliminating the silos that strangle innovation. This is how you enable truly interactive AI, proven by collapsing RAG pipeline latency from minutes to seconds.

Radically Shift Infrastructure Economics

We questioned the economics of legacy storage to build a better standard. Our platform delivers all-flash economics for all data, proven by a 58.9% TCO savings over HDD systems. This is achieved with an architecture requiring 10x fewer racks and 77% less power.

Accelerate AI Beyond Convention

Stop wrestling with infrastructure. Our pre-validated platform with Cisco eradicates integration complexity, collapsing AI deployment from months to days. This frees your teams to innovate, not manage infrastructure.

Unify Data to Unleash Intelligence

Stop storing data and start using it. We collapse the entire data stack into a single platform, eliminating the silos that strangle innovation. This is how you enable truly interactive AI, proven by collapsing RAG pipeline latency from minutes to seconds.

Radically Shift Infrastructure Economics

We questioned the economics of legacy storage to build a better standard. Our platform delivers all-flash economics for all data, proven by a 58.9% TCO savings over HDD systems. This is achieved with an architecture requiring 10x fewer racks and 77% less power.