Cloudera and VAST Data: Delivering the AI-Native Data Platform
Overview
Improving Data Infrastructure to Better Power AI Enterprise at Scale
Many organizations racing to adopt generative and agentic AI are finding their legacy architectures cannot support the demands of modern AI pipelines. This mismatch creates costly inefficiencies, such as GPU starvation, where expensive computing clusters sit idle while waiting for data. The collaboration between Cloudera and VAST enables enterprise customers to deploy a modernized data foundation and platform to optimize AI workloads.
Why Cloudera + VAST Data
The strategic collaboration between Cloudera and VAST Data empowers customers to build a unified AI Factory including a scalable production environment where data is continuously ingested, refined, governed to seamlessly deploy and accelerate AI pipelines for real-time analytics and agentic workflows using their enterprise data.
One primary benefit of the Cloudera Data and AI Platform, combined with VAST Disaggregated Share-Everything (DASE) architecture and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, is the elimination of GPU starvation. The solution feeds data directly to accelerators to achieve near 100% GPU utilization and maximize hardware ROI. This modernized infrastructure drastically lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reducing storage overhead from 200% to just 3%, significantly cutting energy, cooling, and rack space requirements.
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST’s breakthrough DASE architecture – the world’s first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI.
Solutions
The AI-Native Data Platform with Cloudera and VAST
VAST Data and Cloudera help enterprises move beyond legacy and fragmented data architectures to AI-ready infrastructure that scales from analytics to training, inference, and agentic AI. The result is a modern AI Factory architecture where data is continuously ingested, governed, refined, and delivered to analytics and AI services without the latency, duplication, and operational complexity of traditional data pipelines.
You get the trusted enterprise-class data and AI platform of Cloudera with the AI-native data storage capabilities of VAST Data which delivers:
A True Single Source of Truth
Unify files, objects, and tables on a single all-flash platform, eliminating data silos, reducing ETL pipelines, and simplifying enterprise governance.
Increased AI Performance
Deliver the throughput and low latency required for large-scale training, inference, and real-time analytics.
Unprecedented Inference Scale
Handle millions of tokens and massive KV cache workloads without server contention.
Real-Time AI
Power streaming pipelines, RAG applications, and agentic workflows using live enterprise data.
Maximum GPU ROI
Eliminate data path bottlenecks and GPU starvation by delivering data directly from the unified storage layer to GPU memory.
Operational Simplicity
Eliminate data copies, reduce ETL complexity, and consolidate infrastructure silos.
Cost-Saving Economics
Reduce storage overhead, lower TCO, and improve infrastructure efficiency across analytics, training, and inference workloads.