Akamai Technologies, a leader in cybersecurity and cloud computing, has announced a strategic partnership with VAST Data, an AI data platform company. This collaboration aims to enhance AI inferencing efficiency, making data-intensive AI workloads faster, more scalable, and cost-effective.
Overcoming AI Inference Challenges
AI-powered applications face key hurdles in latency, cost, and scalability—particularly during inference, which must operate on-demand with ultra-low latency. While cloud providers excel in centralized AI training, inference requires a highly distributed infrastructure for real-time responsiveness.
By integrating the VAST Data Platform with Akamai’s global distributed cloud, enterprises can:
- Lower inference costs by optimizing resource allocation.
- Improve response times with edge-based AI computing.
- Ensure secure, fast access to distributed datasets via a single global namespace.
Akamai’s Role in Democratizing Edge AI
As the world’s most distributed cloud, Akamai is uniquely positioned to deliver AI inference at scale, enabling enterprises to meet local response time and localization needs efficiently.
Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data, emphasized the impact of this partnership:
“With this agreement, Akamai and VAST Data will deliver next-generation AI infrastructure that blends hyperscale performance, security, and efficiency. This ensures seamless scalability, intelligent automation, and enterprise-grade security for AI workloads at the edge.”
The Future of AI-Powered Enterprises
By combining Akamai’s cloud reach with VAST Data’s high-performance platform, organizations gain a future-proof AI-ready infrastructure that accelerates AI-driven innovation. This collaboration reinforces Akamai’s commitment to democratizing AI inference, allowing businesses to scale AI applications more effectively than ever before.
