VAST Data

 ( Technology Companies Of The United States ) 

In February 2019, VAST emerged from stealth mode, announcing $80 million of funding and the launch of its data storage software built on a new distributed systems architecture called DASE (Disaggregated and Shared Everything).

VAST ranked No. 5 on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and No. 3 on the 2023 Financial Times list of The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies.

In December 2023, VAST announced it had surpassed $1 billion in cumulative software bookings and $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

In 2024, VAST was included in the Forbes Cloud 100 and was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for File and Object Storage Platforms.

In 2025, VAST was named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 and the Forbes AI 50.

In May 2025 the company announced it had reached $2 billion in cumulative software bookings.

In December 2023 VAST announced a Series E funding round led by Fidelity Management and Research Co. that raised $118 million at a valuation of $9.1 billion.

• VAST DataStore (formerly known as Universal Storage), an unstructured data storage solution
• VAST DataBase, a database management system (DBMS) that includes the constructs of a traditional database, data warehouse, and data lake
• VAST DataEngine, a global function execution engine
• VAST DataSpace, a Global Namespace that permits every location to store, retrieve, and process data
• VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, a real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solution
• VAST AgentEngine, an AI agent deployment and orchestration system
• VAST SyncEngine, a tool that manages the ingestion, cataloging, and access of unstructured data from distributed sources for use in AI application

The platform is deployable in on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge environments, and is delivered as a subscription-based service.