VAST Data addresses the shift away from Hadoop and HDFS by offering a modern, flash-optimized data platform designed for today’s scalable and high-performance analytics and AI workloads. While HDFS was built around a shared-nothing design optimized for earlier slower networks and HDD storage, VAST’s patented Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture decouples compute and storage, allowing independent scaling with a global namespace accessed simultaneously by many CPUs. This eliminates data silos, east-west traffic bottlenecks, and complex tiering common in Hadoop.

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