Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new capacity optimization program – VAST Amplify. This new customer engagement is designed 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 up to 6× or more effective capacity, depending on workload characteristics and existing environment.
Across the industry, capacity planning has become increasingly constrained by supply availability, and these SSD shortages are increasingly exposing architectural inefficiencies across modern data platforms – including replication-heavy protection models, fragmented data stacks, and performance approaches that depend on overprovisioned flash. VAST Amplify addresses these constraints by helping 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.”
As organizations scale AI from training into higher-volume inference, emerging approaches that persist and reuse inference state – including key-value (KV) cache – are beginning to add additional demand for fast storage, further increasing the importance of maximizing effective capacity from existing flash.
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 & 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 overprovisioned 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.
VAST Amplify helps organizations move forward when supply constraints would otherwise force delays, compromises, or irreversible data deletion. By reclaiming existing flash capacity and consolidating it into the VAST AI OS, customers can increase effective capacity, sustain performance, and keep AI and analytics initiatives on track – without waiting on new allocation windows.
Experience VAST’s industry-leading approach to AI and data infrastructure at VAST Forward, the company's inaugural user conference, February 24–26, 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Engage with VAST leadership, customers, and partners through deep technical sessions, hands-on labs, and certification programs. Register here to join.
Additional Resources:
- PROGRAM BRIEF: VAST Amplify: The Capacity Amplification Program
- BLOG: VAST Amplify – Turning Capacity Scarcity into Strategic Advantage
- VAST LIVE: Webinar Registration – February 12, 2026
- WHITEPAPER: Scaling through flash scarcity with purpose-built architecture
- BLOG: Really Big Data: How Context Memory Is Reshaping AI Infrastructure
- BLOG: Overcoming the SSD Shortage with VAST
- BLOG: Beating the Flash Crunch With Efficiency, Not Supply
- LANDING PAGE: Overcoming the SSD Shortage for AI and Analytics
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST’s breakthrough DASE architecture – the world’s first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI. Learn more at vastdata.com and follow VAST Data on LinkedIn, YouTube and X.
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