Vast Data Bringing Enhanced Enterprise Security Features, Performance and Scale to Software Offering

Vast Data, Inc. is bringing enhanced enterprise security features, performance and scale to its software offering.

With an install base of multiple exabyte and an annual growth rate of 300%, customers are continually challenging the company with new feature requests to power their data-intensive use cases. This release, in total, represents more than 30 features that have been requested by  customers. Testament to the company’s R&D team, the average turnaround of ‘feature request to code’ is f4 months.

“Since our founding, we have always maintained a customer-first mindset, continuously adding new features and functionality at a rapid pace to solve their ever-growing and changing application needs,” said Jeff Denworth, co-founder. “Ultimately, we work to foster a close collaboration with our customers whose use cases are our product’s North Star. This level of agility is never seen from legacy providers of data infrastructure. Our responsive approach not only helps our customers manage their data easier, it also creates long-term business partnerships with customers and the broader market that is good for Vast.”

The firm’s Universal Storage data platform provides customers with a cloud-native containerized storage architecture, and eliminates storage tiering to unleash insights on their massive reserves of data. Versions 4.2 and 4.3 expand on an already stellar feature set, while continuing to deliver increased functionality, scalability and security features – and still improving system performance.

Notable features in the latest release include:

Enhanced security:

• The firm expands protection against ransomware attacks with Object Locks. Customers can set policies on buckets and objects to make them immutable, preventing users and applications from deleting or modifying an object before its expiry. Admins can also use S3 bucket policies to define permissions, enabling secure identity and access management.

• Available in Universal Storage, Indestructible Snapshots provide an additional layer of protection that safeguards immutable snapshots and policies from external or internal attackers.

• Compliance with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, using validated cryptographic libraries for encryption at rest.

Flexible cloud data management

• One platform that integrates S3 bucket management for integrated file and object storage. Customers can share data between file and object storage protocols – Universal Storage is a platform that provides this functionality, giving customers the best of both worlds. Check out this blog post and deep-dive demo.

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• Further improvements to the firm’s centralized Uplink Cloud Management system include integration with Zendesk, providing customers with an intuitive support experience to create, track and manage their support tickets. For more information about the firm’s Uplink Cloud Management service, check out this blog post and deep-dive demo.

Enhanced performance for secure protocols

• Support for NFS4 over RDMA, delivering a performance boost for NFS4. By extending NFS4 over RDMA, the company is increasing speed while providing customers with an enhanced security blanket via a Kerberized connection. It is the only vendor to accelerate NFS4 with RDMA, making it possible to power high-performance high-scale HPC, AI, media and analytics workloads with a simple and secure client interface.

Universal Storage versions 4.2 and 4.3 are available.