By CTech
Publication Date: 2026-02-26 12:25:00
As Vast Data moves toward a funding round that could value it at up to $30 billion, the company is tightening its technological and commercial alignment with Nvidia. Its latest announcement, unveiled at the VAST Forward 2026 conference, introduces a fully CUDA-accelerated version of its AI operating system designed to run directly on Nvidia-powered servers, a shift that reflects Vast’s growing role at the center of AI infrastructure.
The company said the new system allows customers to run storage, databases, analytics and AI inference as part of a single integrated platform, eliminating the need to assemble separate components. The change is intended to remove data bottlenecks that can limit the effectiveness of AI systems, particularly in large-scale deployments where data must move continuously between storage and compute.
“Ten years ago, we set out to build a system that could continuously refine data into intelligence and action,” said Renen Hallak, Vast’s founder and CEO. “By accelerating both compute and the data paths inside the VAST AI OS with NVIDIA, we’re giving customers a faster, simpler way to operationalize retrieval, analytics, and agentic workflows as one coherent pipeline.”
The new architecture is built around Vast’s CNode-X servers, which are designed as Nvidia-certified systems capable of running Vast’s software directly on GPU-accelerated infrastructure. This allows Vast’s platform to orchestrate AI pipelines, vector search, analytics…
