VAST Data announced VAST SyncEngine, a powerful new capability of the VAST AI OS that acts as a universal data router, unifying a high-performance onboarding solution with a global catalog to accelerate the flow of data into AI pipelines. Offered at no additional cost to VAST customers, SyncEngine eliminates the friction of discovering and mobilising distributed unstructured datasets and enterprise SaaS platforms, so organisations can simplify their infrastructure and move faster from raw data to real-world AI outcomes.
As organisations begin to deploy AI at scale, infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting. The biggest constraint today isn’t just model complexity or GPU supply, but the data itself – scattered across outdated file and object systems, siloed inside enterprise SaaS applications, and invisible to AI pipelines. This data fragmentation creates the “last mile” problem, where valuable information remains out of reach, and teams are forced to stitch together costly third-party tools just to find, prepare, and move data. SyncEngine eliminates this complexity by collapsing cataloging, migration, and transformation into a single, no-cost capability of the VAST AI OS. The result is faster time-to-insight, lower TCO, and dramatically simplified AI adoption.
SyncEngine is a foundational part of the data platform services within the VAST AI OS. By making distributed data searchable, actionable, and AI-ready, SyncEngine accelerates AI velocity without requiring 3rd party migration tools or complex manual scripting. As such, SyncEngine offers:
- The world’s fastest data migration services: Purpose-built for massive file and object datasets, and Enterprise SaaS platforms, delivering record-breaking speeds from ingest to insight.
- Enterprise-scale metadata indexing: Catalog and search hundreds of trillions of files and objects – leveraging the VAST DataBase.
- Unlimited ingest throughput: Bound only by source and target system performance – achieving line-rate performance in real-world deployments.
- Massively parallel, linearly scaling I/O: Scale performance predictably simply by adding nodes, multiplying throughput without bottlenecks.
With SyncEngine, VAST customers can:
- See everything: Build a real-time, searchable catalog across traditional file and object systems, as well as enterprise apps such as Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Salesforce. SyncEngine creates a multi-namespace global catalog with deep metadata indexing, enabling full searchability across billions of unstructured files and objects, making data instantly discoverable and ready for action.
- Move effortlessly: Migrate and synchronise data at scale with built-in integrity verification, automatic job recovery, and bi-directional data flow. SyncEngine supports clean continuous onboarding from legacy POSIX and S3-compatible sources, and enterprise applications, removing the need for brittle custom scripts or disconnected data migration tool sets.
- Accelerate AI: Securely feed pipelines powered by InsightEngine and DataEngine, preparing raw content through chunking and vectorisation that enables any LangChain based application to gain insight from endless amounts of unstructured data, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and as well as agentic AI workloads. SyncEngine supplies pipelines from diverse data sources without requiring wholesale workload migration, turning messy, disconnected data into high-performance intelligence, fast.
- Eliminate cost: SyncEngine replaces expensive standalone tools and complex open-source options, dramatically simplifying data cataloging and migration, with integrated intelligence. Customers benefit from a consolidated stack with no additional licensing fees, reducing complexity, operational burden, and total cost of ownership.
“The future of AI belongs to those who can harness all of their data, not just what’s conveniently available,” said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data. “Data sprawl is the silent killer of enterprise AI strategies, and SyncEngine ends that problematic era. Legacy IT created silos, and we’re tearing them down. Whether your data is buried in on-prem systems or hidden in SaaS apps, SyncEngine makes it all accessible, visible, and valuable. We’re giving customers a direct path from where their data lives today to where AI transformation begins, inside the VAST AI Operating System.”
SyncEngine enables organisations to unify their data estate across legacy systems and modern business applications, delivering AI-ready data with exceptional speed and scale. With the ability to index trillions of files and manage multi-petabyte to exabyte datasets, SyncEngine allows enterprises to search, synchronise, and prepare data wherever it resides, without costly replatforming or infrastructure changes.
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