AI operating system company VAST Data today announced that Megaport, a global leader in Network and Compute as a Service, has selected the VAST AI Operating System to support the next phase of its global automated infrastructure platform. As Megaport extends beyond automated connectivity into integrated compute and GPU services following its acquisition of Latitude.sh, VAST will bring the enterprise-grade data services to Megaport’s network fabric, enabling customers to deploy and scale AI workloads across distributed, hybrid and multicloud environments.
As enterprises move AI into production, workloads are no longer confined to a single cloud, data centre or region. AI and data pipelines must reach wherever compute is available and wherever governance requires workloads to run, but the underlying infrastructure is often still fragmented, with network, compute and data services managed as separate layers.
Together, Megaport and VAST are closing that gap by combining Megaport’s private, programmable connectivity across more than 1,100 data centres and Latitude.sh’s automated bare-metal compute and GPU services, with the unified enterprise data services from the VAST AI OS. The result is a global services fabric designed to help customers rapidly deploy distributed AI workloads with greater performance, control and operational simplicity.
“Enterprises are no longer thinking about networking, compute and data as separate decisions,” said Michael van Rooyen, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation at Megaport.
“They want infrastructure that is automated, global and flexible enough to support what AI requires next. VAST gives us one software layer to support enterprise data services across both Megaport and Latitude.sh, allowing us to expand beyond connectivity into the services layer customers need to build and scale modern AI workloads, with fewer operational silos and a faster path from distributed infrastructure to production AI.”
For Megaport customers, the challenge is not simply reaching more infrastructure, but making data usable across every place AI workloads need to run. VAST DataSpace extends Megaport’s platform with a global namespace, so customers can access and manage data consistently across on-premises, public clouds, neoclouds and edge locations without creating new silos or unnecessary copies.
“AI does not scale on infrastructure that is powerful in pieces but fragmented in practice,” said Phil Manez, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at VAST Data. “The next era will be built on global fabrics that connect data, compute and services wherever customers need them. Megaport has built one of the most important connectivity platforms in the world, and with the VAST AI Operating System, that platform can become a data-aware foundation for production AI, helping infrastructure, compute and governed data operate together.”
