Brisbane, Australia – Megaport has selected the AI operating system developed by VAST Data to support the next stage of its global infrastructure platform, as the company expands beyond network connectivity into compute and GPU services.
The announcement comes as Megaport continues to broaden its Network and Compute as a Service offering following its acquisition of Latitude.sh. Under the partnership, the VAST AI Operating System will provide enterprise data services across Megaport’s network fabric, enabling customers to deploy and scale artificial intelligence workloads across distributed, hybrid and multicloud environments.
The companies said the collaboration addresses a growing challenge for enterprises moving AI projects into production. As AI workloads increasingly span multiple clouds, data centres and geographic regions, organisations require infrastructure that can connect data, compute and networking resources while maintaining governance and operational efficiency.
Megaport and VAST Data said they aim to bridge these requirements by combining Megaport’s private connectivity platform, which spans more than 1,100 data centres globally, with Latitude.sh’s bare-metal compute and GPU services and VAST’s data management capabilities. The combined offering is intended to help customers deploy distributed AI workloads with greater performance and simplified operations.
“Enterprises are no longer thinking about networking, compute and data as separate decisions,” said Michael van Rooyen, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation at Megaport. “They want infrastructure that is automated, global and flexible enough to support what AI requires next. VAST gives us one software layer to support enterprise data services across both Megaport and Latitude.sh, allowing us to expand beyond connectivity into the services layer customers need to build and scale modern AI workloads, with fewer operational silos and a faster path from distributed infrastructure to production AI.”
As part of the integration, VAST DataSpace will provide a global namespace that allows customers to access and manage data consistently across on-premises environments, public clouds, neoclouds and edge locations. The companies said this is designed to reduce data silos and minimise the need for duplicate data copies across infrastructure environments.
“AI does not scale on infrastructure that is powerful in pieces but fragmented in practice,” said Phil Manez, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at VAST Data. “The next era will be built on global fabrics that connect data, compute and services wherever customers need them. Megaport has built one of the most important connectivity platforms in the world, and with the VAST AI Operating System, that platform can become a data-aware foundation for production AI, helping infrastructure, compute and governed data operate together.”
The partnership reflects growing demand for integrated infrastructure platforms that combine networking, compute and data services as organisations scale AI deployments from pilot projects to production environments.
