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VAST Data AI Operating System
The VAST Data AI Operating System unifies on-premises and cloud environments into a single, intelligent data platform. It removes the operational boundary between where data lives and where AI compute runs, so enterprises can use cloud accelerators and services without creating parallel datasets, migration projects, or new silos. The same VAST software and capabilities are delivered consistently across supported clouds, making it possible to extend an existing environment into the cloud, or the cloud to on-prem, while keeping one data plane and one operational model.
Reviews (10)
Naincy G.
High-Performance, Scalable Unified Data Platform
Reviewed on Aug 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Vast Data is its high performance, scalability, and ability to manage large volumes of data efficiently. Its unified data platform makes it easier to handle data-intensive workloads while maintaining fast access and flexibility. The value is good compared with the cost. Vast Data provides strong performance, scalability, and efficient data management, which makes the investment worthwhile for organizations handling large and complex data workloads.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Vast Data is that it can take some time to understand and configure, especially for users who are new to the platform. The overall solution can also feel complex compared with simpler data storage and management tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vast Data helps address the challenges of managing large and growing datasets by providing scalable, high-performance data storage and management. It makes it easier to access and organize data efficiently, supports data-intensive workloads, and reduces the complexity of managing data across different environments. This benefits me by improving data accessibility, performance, and overall efficiency.
Francis Ruban F.
Excellent Performance at Scale, but Setup Can Be Complex and Costly
Reviewed on Aug 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent performance and scalability, with straightforward management for large datasets. It works especially well for high-performance and AI/ML workloads, and it’s been a solid fit when handling data at scale.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup can be a bit complex, and the overall cost may end up being higher than with traditional storage solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VAST Data helps us manage large volumes of data with strong performance and scalability. It makes storage management simpler and gives us faster access to our data, which improves overall efficiency and supports demanding workloads.
Dharmendra kumar Y.
VAST Data’s All-Flash DASE Architecture Delivers Scalable, High-Throughput AI Storage
Reviewed on Aug 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
VAST Data replaces complex multi-tier storage with an all-flash Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, delivering archive-level pricing using QLC flash and global deduplication. Its stateless compute-to-storage design scales linearly and maximizes throughput to keep modern AI and GPU workloads fully saturated.
What do you dislike about the product?
VAST Data comes with a high entry cost and a sizable hardware footprint, which makes it impractical for smaller, sub-petabyte environments. It also depends on an ultra-low-latency RDMA network fabric to prevent bottlenecks. In addition, it feels less well suited to heavy, random transactional write workloads, especially when compared with read-heavy AI pipelines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VAST Data addresses storage tiering and GPU I/O starvation by bringing files, structured tables, and vector embeddings together on a single all-flash platform. By unifying these data types in one place, it reduces the need for complex ETL pipelines, helps maximize AI model training and retrieval speeds, and aims to deliver petabyte-scale flash performance with spinning-disk economics.
Information Technology and Services
Powerful Performance for GPU-Driven Workloads
Reviewed on Jun 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
support for heavy GPU-driven workloads that need fast access to huge amounts of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
VAST's pricing model is not the cheapest
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The performance-vs-capacity tradeoff in legacy architectures.
Aanya S.
Solution for Data Storage
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Vast Data is helpfull when we go for data storage, it can be setup with hybrid or on prem also, i like that is cost effective as compare to other platform like AWS, AZURE. It provides us unified solution. I liked that it can handle ai/ml workloads also.
What do you dislike about the product?
QLC NAND can be more easy for setup. It will be helpfull.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it solves many problems like it provides unified storage, high cost flash storage, and has good storage silos. It is cost effecttive and scalable that benefits us very well.
Varun U.
A platform for Universal storage
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Vast Data Universal Storage is best tool to grow as your data needs expand without compromising performance. It's data analytics capabilities, data tiers and data management. It is easy to use, implement and integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
According to me there is no such a big thing that I dislike about this but one thing is cost that affect the business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simplifying data management, scalable and easy to use structure. The main problem for me is eliminating data tiers and accelerating data analytics capabilities
Dolly C.
Full-featured high performance storage
Reviewed on Aug 25, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
one of the good product which full my requirement as well my customers requirments as well. This is the single storage system that is the fast enough primary storage. Also scable for heavy database.
What do you dislike about the product?
Somehow implementation need some technical assistance for that. pricing is also high as compare to other market products.need to work on partnership with this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is the sigle storage with support huge deatabase. i can use it from anywhere i need it.it has many features and smooth interface aswell.Giving high performance and also scalable that is very much required.
Sonal D.
One Stop Solution For Data Storage And Management
Reviewed on Aug 16, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Vast Data Universal Storage as its name suggests makes storing and managing data easy. It has a simple interface and customer support is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no big issues to mention. Sometimes it lags may be because of connectivity issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall, my experience is positive. It helps me store my data and access my data whenever I need it. It offers many features and has a smooth interface.
Arun K.
Great Data Insights With Advanced Innovative Technology Platform!!
Reviewed on Jul 19, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It has simplified the storage of massive data for our day to operation. Vastdata has enabled our fastest access to largest amounts of data. Finding and handling of data has been made easy by vastdata. Always smoother operation for scalable and consalidate in to one platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have not faced any issue untill now. Scalable has been always easier and sometimes lags.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were always facing a problem of finding a consalidated storage platform for handling unified data management, Vastdata has solved this by providing the required sources.
Information Technology and Services
Data storage
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2021
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Being on the cloud, accessibility has been a breeze along with the amount of storage for the $ is worth spent
What do you dislike about the product?
Partnership could be better, but no major issues have been seen
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The amount of storage on regular one drive solution was not sufficient
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great investment for all sized companies