Article written and provided by, VAST Data.
The primary goal of the next wave of enterprise AI is to create sophisticated, agentic applications that can reason and act on an organization's internal knowledge base and live data feeds. However, this is nearly impossible when the data path is fragmented, relying on slow, dedicated storage for ingestion and separate systems for analytics. The VAST Data Platform directly addresses this by bringing high-speed streaming capabilities into a unified storage architecture. It provides the seamless bridge between your high-velocity data and AI-driven outcomes, allowing organizations to finally build and deploy trusted AI applications that leverage their most valuable asset: data in motion.
The VAST Data Platform serves as the resilient and performant data foundation for any modern real-time AI initiative. Its unique Disaggregated, Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture was built for the scale and extreme write performance that high-velocity workloads demand, eliminating the data bottlenecks that traditionally hinder streaming AI initiatives.
Key capabilities that accelerate your real-time data strategy include:
- Extreme Ingestion Performance: The platform has been independently validated to sustain a record-shattering 136 million messages per second with a single cluster using the Kafka API, proving its ability to handle the write density and throughput of even the most demanding IoT, financial, and logging data streams.
- Unifying Streaming and AI Data: The platform consolidates structured, unstructured, and streaming data, natively supporting file, object, vector, and high-speed streaming protocols (like Kafka). This eliminates complex ETL pipelines, making fresh data available instantly for AI model training and inference.
- Performance at Scale: VAST delivers the extreme, low-latency performance needed at every stage of the real-time data lifecycle. By eliminating data I/O bottlenecks, the platform ensures that costly GPU resources are always saturated with data for training and high-speed inference, maximizing compute efficiency.
Unlocking Real-Time Data, Securely and at Scale
The complexity and risk of message loss in DIY high-speed data pipelines is a significant barrier to the adoption of real-time AI. The VAST Data Platform is designed with a simplified, unified approach, where data integrity and consistency are built into the architecture. This consolidated, high-performance posture gives organizations the confidence to ingest petabytes of streaming data without fear of message loss or operational complexity. By providing a single, pre-validated solution for all data types, the VAST Data Platform removes the complexity and risk of building high-performance streaming infrastructure from scratch, enabling organizations to focus on the advanced analytics and agent design instead of data pipeline integration.
WWT + VAST: De-Risking Your Real-Time Data Strategy
Before making a strategic investment in real-time AI infrastructure, organizations need to validate that their systems can truly handle peak data ingestion rates without fail. The partnership between WWT and VAST provides the perfect environment to de-risk this transformation. By leveraging WWT's advanced technical expertise and validation facilities, enterprises can test the complete VAST Data Platform solution under real-world conditions.
This powerful collaboration allows your teams to:
- Validate and benchmark extreme streaming workloads, proving sustained ingestion rates with your proprietary data.
- Build and test real-time data pipelines and RAG workflows in a safe, isolated sandbox environment to ensure data integrity and zero message loss.
- Optimize TCO and performance to ensure seamless integration and maximized GPU utilization before a full-scale production deployment.
The Future of Real-Time Enterprise AI is Here
The era of complex, piecemeal streaming infrastructure is giving way to simplified, turnkey solutions. The VAST Data Platform provides the secure, scalable, and high-performance foundation needed to lead in the age of real-time AI. It's a solution that finally unlocks the full potential of your high-velocity data streams, enabling the next wave of agentic AI innovation.
To take the next step, connect with your WWT representative to see how you can test VAST's hyper-scale streaming solution today.