Vast Data has launched its AI DataEnclave system in Singapore, targeting regulated sectors requiring on-premises or location-specific AI infrastructure. The system cryptographically verifies hardware environments before decrypting models or data, with Nvidia confirming that confidential workloads are only decrypted within protected environments during computation. The platform can operate in connected or air-gapped environments, supporting sovereign and regional AI cloud providers in offering onshore AI services. The launch aligns with growing demand from regulated industries for secure AI infrastructure and Southeast Asian operators' efforts to deliver Sovereign AI services regionally. Vast Data was valued at $30 billion in its series F financing round.

Jean-Thomas Acquaviva joins Vast Data as AI & HPC Technical Director. Following more than 12 years at DDN. It is the new dance between top AI oriented data storage vendors... Jean-Thomas Acquaviva shared the news on LinkedIn a few days ago, he recently joined Vast Data as AI & HPC Technical Director. Before he spent a little more than 12 years at DDN, almost a year at KoDe software, CEA for more than 6 years, Intel for 2 periods and at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin. He received his Ph.D. in computer architecture from the Versailles University in 2000. Read also: Vast AI Operating System delivers native CrowdStrike Falcon support, integrating protection across AI infrastructure, enterprise data access and AI pipelines with Vast InsightEngine Alliance to scale sovereign AI capacity as demand for Australian-based AI infrastructure grows Myriad and before StorNext and now Infinia By Philippe Nicolas August 11, 2026 | News New capabilities for the DDN Infinia platform are designed to enable GPUs to initiate data operations directly, accelerating data access and improving efficiency at massive scale Vast AI operating system and AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NICs deliver breakthrough inference performance and efficiency for AI clouds, enterprises and agentic AI workloads Combining Cloudera's next-generation lakehouse data services with Vast's AI Operating System, leveraging the Nvidia AI Data Platform reference design, this joint solution eliminates GPU starvation and accelerates enterprise AI

Vast Data and CrowdStrike have partnered to enhance AI infrastructure security. The collaboration integrates Vast's audit telemetry with CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen security information and event management system, whilst Falcon Guardian will integrate with Vast InsightEngine. Native support for the Falcon sensor on Vast is now certified and available. The SIEM and Guardian integrations are currently in private preview. The partnership addresses growing enterprise concerns about prompt injection attacks, which can leak data, trigger unintended actions, and expose proprietary information in AI-powered business applications. The initiative also aligns with National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance recommending that organisations monitor and document AI system behaviour and impacts, emphasising logging and traceability in AI governance and security.