Architecture Matters: Experience the Future of AI Data Infrastructure with VAST at GTC 2025

Believe it or not, we are one week to NVIDIA GTC 2025. Speaking for the team at VAST, I could not be more excited and more ready for the AI event of the year. I’m happy to share the details on our participation at GTC this year and how you can engage us all week long.

At GTC, VAST will drive home a critical message: architecture matters. As AI adoption accelerates, traditional data architectures are becoming roadblocks - constraining scalability, creating siloed complexity, and exposing data to security risks. Without a modern foundation, organizations struggle to extract real-time insights and unlock the full potential of AI.

That’s why we built the DASE architecture from the ground up to eliminate these challenges and empower a new generation of AI builders. Whether you’re building large-scale AI models, optimizing inference pipelines, or deploying next-gen applications, VAST provides the data platform to fuel innovation without compromise.

Join us at GTC to explore how VAST is defining AI data infrastructure. Through key sessions, live demos, and conversations with our experts, you’ll see firsthand why VAST is the data platform for the AI era—built for speed, scale, and simplicity. Book a meeting ahead of the show here.

Engage Our Interactive Demos

Be sure to visit VAST booth #733, the hub of all VAST activity, where you’ll find several demo kiosks designed to provide hands-on experiences with the VAST Data Platform. This year’s demos include:

• Training AI Models with Synthetic Data on Object This demo will show users how to generate annotated synthetic objects, detailing the prompts and models used, and how this boosts model performance and enriches training datasets.
• Auto Scaling Inferencing to On-Demand Cloud This demo showcases elastic scaling for AI inference across multiple clouds. Watch inference jobs seamlessly burst between clouds during demand spikes, ensuring peak performance with automated workload distribution.
• Observability and Efficiency in Large-Scale Systems This demo highlights advanced observability within the platform, seamlessly linking workload JobIDs from the scheduler to real-time data flows. Discover how to track and visualize data movement with precision, gaining deep insights into workload performance and resource utilization.

We’ll also have demo stations for various RAG initiatives - including protecting privacy of secure RAG data; using file permissions with RAG; and integrating video into RAG pipelines - as well as deep dives into the VAST Data Platform and the VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA.

Network at VAST-Exclusive Events

You can connect with VASTronauts, industry leaders, and peers at our curated events throughout the conference. I’ll call out just a few special events worth attending; please see the full list here:

• Unwind Hosted by VAST, Crusoe, Deloitte, and HPE Tuesday, March 18 | 7:30 - 9 PM Location: The Continental Bar Lounge | Together with our friends Crusoe, Deloitte, HPE, and NVIDIA,?we invite you to UNWIND with a night of cocktails, conversation and tacos. We look forward to sharing great drinks, delicious bites, and even better company with you.
• Rethinking AI Training Infrastructure Wednesday, March 19 | 8:00 - 9:30 AM Location: Morton’s The Steakhouse | Glenn Lockwood joins VAST co-founder Jeff Denworth to continue their conversation on the transition away from parallel file systems for LLM training. Don’t miss this lively breakfast conversation between two industry luminaries bringing clarity to the shifting AI pipeline and evolving workload dynamics. Register.
• VAST + NVIDIA: The Blueprint For An AI Cloud Wednesday, March 19 | 12 - 1:30 PM Location: Morton’s The Steakhouse Join us for lunch and a discussion on architecting AI Clouds for CSPs and enterprises. John Fragalla, Principal Architect at NVIDIA, and Alon Horev, VAST co-founder and VP of Technology, will define AI clouds, outline key capabilities, and explore evolving market trends.
• AI’s Game-Changing Impact on Fan Engagement Thursday, March 20 | 8:00 - 9:30 AM Discover how the VAST InsightEngine, powered by NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization, transforms game footage into dynamic, interactive content that delivers real-time insights and redefines the fan experience. In this talk, we’ll delve into how an intelligent data ingestion pipeline processes vast amounts of video seamlessly, surfacing game-changing moments that were once hidden in static archives.

Attend Our Speaking Sessions

We’re hosting several sessions aimed at addressing the challenges and opportunities in AI and data management:

• AI’s Enterprise Breakthrough: Delivering Real-Time Intelligence at Scale [S74355] Monday, March 17 - 1 PM Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder Learn how enterprises can overcome the constraints of retrieval-augmented generation pipelines to enable secure, real-time, AI-powered decision-making. We’ll showcase a universal view into all of an enterprise’s structured and unstructured data to achieve advanced AI-enabled decision-making.
• An Enterprise-Ready AI Platform: Unlocking Real-Time Insights at Scale [S72206] Monday, March 17 - 3 PM Sagi Grimberg, VP Architecture and Prasad Venkatachar, AI Solutions Engineering Director, VAST | Nave Algarici, Generative AI Product Manager, NVIDIA Discover how a novel NIMS-based approach enables real-time, secure integration of static and dynamic data in RAG systems, addressing lag, inaccuracies, and scalability to enhance generative AI performance.
• Panel: Storage Innovations for AI Workloads [S72329] Monday, March 17 - 4 PM Join a panel of experts from NVIDIA’s storage partner ecosystem, including VAST Field CTO Kyle Lamb, as they discuss how innovative storage solutions are enhancing AI data center performance.
• Best Practices to Implement Your AI Strategies in the Enterprise [S71775] Wednesday, March 19 - 8 AM Andrew, McMullan, Chief Data Managing Director, AI and Data Operations, Deloittend Analytics Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Anne Hecht, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, NVIDIA | Aaron Chaisson, VP of Product Marketing, VAST Data Join NVIDIA and VAST to explore best practices for implementing AI strategies, highlighting AI's value and potential impact. Learn how customers leverage NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which includes NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, to gain insights on challenges, lessons, and best practices for all stages of the AI journey.
• AI’s Enterprise Moment: Enterprise AI Breakthrough - Data Comes Alive! [S74356] On-Demand Panel: John Mao, VP of Business Development and Alliances, VAST | Christine Ahn, NVIDIA Chief Commercial Officer & Lead Client Service Partner, Deloitte | Stephen Brown, Managing Director, AI and Data Operations, Deloitte Join VAST and Deloitte as they demonstrate how enterprises can break through the limitations of RAG pipelines to achieve secure, real-time, AI-driven decision-making. Learn how the VAST Data Platform, Deloitte’s AI strategy, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing work together to power enterprise-scale AI with real-time indexing, seamless data integration, and zero-trust security.

A Special Offer from VAST

To enhance your GTC experience, we’re offering a 20% discount on conference passes. Register through our unique link to take advantage of this offer.

Additionally, schedule a meeting with the VAST team to discuss how our solutions can benefit your organization.

We look forward to seeing you at GTC!