Vast Data
CEO and founder: Renen Hallak
New York-based storage technology developer Vast Data early this year announced a $40 million funding round and introduced its Universal Storage system, aimed at combining high performance and low-cost technologies to develop exabyte-scale storage with the cost of traditional storage systems. Vast Data is doing this with a combination of three technologies: high-performance NVMe-over-Fabric that allows CPUs to directly access the internal SSDs, the use of consumer-grade QLC (quad-level cell) flash technology, and the use of 3D Xpoint non-volatile memory technology. The company’s system is targeted at high-performance workloads in such areas as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and deep learning.
