VAST Data and Scaleway Partner to Power Future of AI in Europe

VAST Data Ltd. announced its collaboration with Scaleway SAS (Iliad subsidiary), European cloud provider, to accelerate the deployment of next-gen AI and ML workloads.

By integrating VAST’s data infrastructure with its NVIDIA accelerated computing, Scaleway is empowering enterprises across Europe to train and deploy foundational models, full-duplex audio AI, and advanced agent-based systems with speed, efficiency, and scale.

Scaleway has embedded key capabilities of the VAST Data Platform into its AI ecosystem, providing a frictionless, high-throughput, low-latency foundation for data-intensive workloads. The result: AI innovators can operate at peak efficiency without compromise.

“Scaleway is on a mission to empower our customers with the tools they need to innovate at speed, and VAST Data has become a critical part of this strategy,” said Frédéric Bardolle, head product, AI, Scaleway. “VAST’s flexibility, multi-protocol support, and simple scalability are key differentiators that have allowed us to expand our AI offerings to meet the demands of some of Europe’s most data-driven companies. VAST supports protocols like S3 and NFS out of the box, which is critical for our customers. This partnership ensures we can deliver reliable, high-performance solutions to our customers’ hardest challenges, while keeping operations seamless and efficient.”

VAST advantage for Scaleway AI customers include: 

• Scalability and Multi-Tenancy: VAST’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture allows Scaleway to expand its AI infrastructure on demand, adding storage or compute nodes without downtime. The ability to support multi-tenant, GPU-optimized environments gives AI customers the flexibility they need to scale workloads in real time.
• Protocol-Agnostic AI Data Fabric: By supporting S3, NFS, and other critical protocols natively, VAST ensures full compatibility with diverse AI workloads while enabling secure, efficient multi-tenancy for shared GPU clusters. AI developers can manage, move, and protect their data with enterprise-grade simplicity.
• Uncompromising Reliability and Performance: VAST’s architecture delivers the redundancy, resilience, and speed required for AI workloads that demand absolute uptime and nonstop data accessibility. Scaleway’s NVIDIA GPUs now feature the necessary speed and interconnectivity, minimizing bottlenecks and maximizing model training efficiency.
• Maximized GPU Utilization and Efficiency: Requiring minimal management, VAST integrates with high-performance workloads, ensuring Scaleway’s infrastructure supports uninterrupted training of foundational models, audio models, and agent-based AI systems. In addition, VAST ensures the maximal utilization of NVIDIA accelerated computing during demanding AI training and inference workloads, further enabling Scaleway to deliver a best-in-class service. 
• Sustainability-Driven AI Infrastructure: With sustainability at the core of its AI strategy, Scaleway is working with VAST to optimize energy efficiency and reduce data center power consumption while delivering AI performance. Its GPU cluster is also one of a world’s most sustainable, as it is powered by low-carbon energy, and uses only free and adiabatic cooling, saving energy by 30-40%, when compared with air conditioning.
• Flexible Economics and Future-Proofed Growth: Powering Scaleway’s pay-as-you-go offering, VAST’s flexible licensing model minimizes upfront investment for Scaleway, giving them confidence to expand services as and when a customer requires it.  

“Our collaboration with Scaleway demonstrates how VAST Data’s platform can empower service providers to deliver on the promise of AI innovation,” said Chris Morgan, VP, AI solutions, VAST Data. “By offering the scalability, reliability, and performance required for modern AI applications, VAST enables world-class CSPs like Scaleway with a frictionless and secure experience for its data-intensive customers while future-proofing its infrastructure investment for growth.”

Scaleway is also exploring opportunities to expand its use of VAST Data to other areas of its cloud ecosystem, including high-performance file storage, to further enhance its offerings. This partnership underscores both companies’ commitment to delivering transformative technology solutions and creating a foundation for continued growth in AI-driven industries.