Vast Data and Cloudera have announced a partnership to develop a unified data foundation for enterprise AI. The collaboration aims to help businesses build AI factories by integrating their existing data infrastructure with specialized storage and processing capabilities.
The joint architecture utilizes Vast Data’s platform, which allows applications to access files through multiple storage protocols without creating redundant copies. This is integrated with Cloudera Anywhere Cloud services to support various workloads on a single, unified foundation.
A key focus of the partnership is optimizing GPU performance. By ensuring that data delivery keeps pace with the highly parallelized processing of Nvidia GPUs, the companies aim to improve the return on investment for expensive AI hardware.
Cloudera is also expanding its AI ecosystem through joint engineering efforts and the introduction of blueprints. These resources are designed to assist customers in deploying AI applications across different industries and solving specific business problems.
