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VAST Data Platform

byVAST Data
in File and Object Storage Platforms
4.9

Overview

Product Information on VAST Data Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is VAST Data Platform?

VAST Data Platform is a software designed to manage data storage, processing, and management at scale for organizations handling large volumes of unstructured and structured data. The software integrates object, file, and table storage into a unified data platform to support various workloads including analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It enables data consolidation by providing access through multiple protocols and supports both on-premises and cloud environments. The software is built to simplify data architecture, improve performance, and enhance data accessibility while reducing operational complexity. It addresses business challenges related to storing, scaling, and accessing data efficiently for demanding data-centric applications.

VAST Data Platform Pricing

VAST Data Platform software uses a consumption-based pricing model, where charges are typically based on actual storage usage or data managed. The software allows for scalability and organizations are billed according to the amount of capacity or data services utilized, rather than fixed system sizes or hardware purchases.

Overall experience with VAST Data Platform

Director of Research and Development
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Superb performance with impressive technical capabilities”

5.0
Feb 25, 2026
VAST provides a great platform for our needs, with exceptional support and user interface
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2023

VAST Data offers global data infrastructure that unifies storage, database, and virtualized compute engine services in a scalable system built for the future of AI. Accelerating time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, the VAST Data Platform delivers all-flash performance, simple data management, and enhanced productivity.

Company Details

Updated 2nd April 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2016
Head office location
United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
vastdata.com

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VAST Data Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

VAST's monitoring tools are a huge upgrade for us, and provide excellent insight into our system usage in new ways. Their support team is responsive and knowledgeable, and the data compression and deduplication is impressive.

Like

Data reduction, scalability, and ease of overall deployment with the assistance of our platform.

Like

performance, stable, simple update procedure, data reduction, metrics, analytics history functionality

Dislike

Sometimes the documentation doesn't feel complete relative to what the system fully offers. It's very expensive at list price, and some of the features feel a little esoteric or complicated until you understand the lingo.

Dislike

Some features are forthcoming, including limited dashboards and better training.

Dislike

support service is highly focussed through slack channel - not by email. technical and feature parameter are ok write performance could be better - but it is ok for our needs and the size of our university

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VAST Data Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.9

(99 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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85%
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15%
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  • Director of Research and Development
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Superb performance with impressive technical capabilities

    5.0
    Feb 24, 2026
    VAST provides a great platform for our needs, with exceptional support and user interface
  • Business Development Associate
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Data Reduction and Scalability Drive Positive Experiences Despite Limited Dashboards

    5.0
    Feb 24, 2026
    Our customers have helped out the team at our company. Vast provides a single platform for all types of data. Data reduction has played a huge role in our partnership.
  • IT Services Associate
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    High Stability and Data Reduction Noted, Support Lacks Email Communication Option

    5.0
    Jul 9, 2025
    vast storage works very good and stable as a hpc fileserver for cpu and gpu cluster
  • VP, IT
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Flexible, cost-efficient object storage product.

    5.0
    Jul 7, 2025
    What sold them to us was the direct access they offered to their development team, allowing us to specify any custom feature we needed, at the protocol/API level
  • CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    VAST's Increased Stability and Simplified Management Enhances Efficiency

    5.0
    Jan 24, 2025
    Willing to be creative, clear and effective communication
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