Akamai Technologies announced on March 18, 2025, an agreement with VAST Data, an AI data platform company, to enhance the speed and efficiency of data-intensive AI inferencing. This collaboration will integrate Akamai's massively distributed platform with the VAST Data Platform's approach to data-intensive computing. The goal is to provide better local response times and localization for distributed inference for large, distributed customers.
The partnership aims to address the challenges of latency, cost, and scalability in deploying AI-powered applications at scale. While AI training is resource-intensive and often centralized, inference requires continuous, on-demand operation with ultra-low latency, making Akamai's edge network uniquely suited for planetary-scale service.
By adding VAST Data to the Akamai Cloud, the collaboration seeks to lower costs and improve customer experience, helping to democratize edge AI computing. Akamai Cloud users will benefit from consistent and fast, secure access to all their organization's data, from edge to cloud, via a single global namespace.
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