VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, is introducing a new capacity optimization program, VAST Amplify, to help enterprises and service providers increase effective flash capacity using the SSDs they already own.
As storage lead times and allocation windows tighten, VAST Amplify provides a structured path for customers to identify underutilized flash, rapidly qualify and repurpose existing hardware, and consolidate capacity into the VAST AI Operating System’s unified Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture, delivering more effective capacity, depending on workload characteristics and existing environment, the company said.
VAST Amplify helps organizations reclaim stranded SSD capacity and convert installed flash into a unified, globally accessible pool—increasing usable capacity and sustaining AI and analytics growth even as flash becomes scarcer and more expensive, without waiting for new procurement cycles.
“Storage scarcity is forcing organizations into impossible trade-offs—delay programs, ration capacity, or accept whatever allocation they can get,” said Phil Manez, vice president, GTM execution at VAST Data. “With VAST Amplify, we’re giving customers a practical alternative: reclaim the flash you already have, consolidate it into a modern architecture, and materially increase the usable capacity and performance you can deliver to the business.
VAST Amplify is designed to meet customers where they are, operationally and technically, while aligning each engagement phase to measurable efficiency gains at scale, including:
- Estate intelligence – VAST analyzes the environment to identify underutilized SSD capacity, fragmentation across silos, and architecture-driven waste that suppresses effective capacity.
- Rapid platform qualification – VAST accelerates qualification of existing server and SSD configurations so customers can reuse installed flash with a clear path to production, reducing dependency on new allocation windows and long lead times.
- Capacity reclamation and pooling – VAST helps customers repurpose and consolidate existing SSD investments into a unified VAST environment so capacity is globally accessible, dynamically allocated, and no longer constrained by server boundaries or legacy designs.
- Platform-level durability – Data protection is handled once at the platform layer using highly efficient erasure coding rather than replication-heavy approaches, increasing usable capacity while maintaining resilience at scale.
- Global similarity-based data reduction – Continuous, global reduction is applied across the namespace—eliminating redundant patterns wherever they occur (not just within individual volumes), enabling materially higher effective capacity on a fixed flash footprint.
- SCM-Optimized Write Architecture – Random and bursty writes are absorbed in Storage Class Memory (SCM) and written to SSDs efficiently in larger, sequential segments—reducing write amplification, improving endurance, and sustaining low-latency performance without requiring over-provisioned flash.
- More Usable Capacity per SSD – By combining platform-level durability, global data reduction, and SCM-based write efficiency, VAST Amplify can deliver up to 6× or more effective capacity from existing SSD investments, depending on workload and environment.
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