VAST Data Launches Event Broker for Real-Time AI-Driven Insights

VAST Data, an AI data platform company, has introduced the VAST Event Broker, a cutting-edge capability designed to enable AI agents to instantly act on incoming data, providing real-time intelligence and automation. As businesses expand the use of AI, the VAST Event Broker features a Kafka-compatible API that integrates event streaming, seamless analytics, and AI into a high-performance, unified data platform. This eliminates the constraints of legacy event streaming architectures, unlocking immediate AI-driven insights and transforming how data is processed.

Traditional event streaming systems face several limitations, including rigid architectures, operational complexity, and siloed data that separates transactional and analytical workloads. These challenges create fragmented infrastructures that hinder seamless analytics and delay real-time insights. While Kafka has been widely adopted for data movement, its isolated event data silos prevent efficient integration and create costly inefficiencies. The VAST Event Broker overcomes these obstacles, streamlining event streaming and delivering faster, more effective results for AI-driven analytics.

The VAST Data Platform now integrates storage, databases, and virtualized compute engine services into a unified AI operating system, consolidating transactional, analytical, AI, and real-time streaming workloads. The VAST Event Broker, powered by VAST’s DASE architecture, enables real-time analytics, AI/ML pipelines, and event-driven workflows. The new capabilities simplify management, enhance observability, expand SQL query options, and boost system resilience, creating a seamless experience for businesses that rely on real-time decision-making.

VAST Data Co-Founder Jeff Denworth emphasizes the revolutionary nature of the VAST Event Broker, stating, “By merging event streaming, analytics, and AI into a single platform, VAST is eliminating decades of inefficiencies in data pipelines and event streaming. This allows organizations to detect fraud in milliseconds, act on data-driven insights instantly, and deliver AI-powered customer experiences, marking the future of real-time intelligence for the AI era.”

The VAST Event Broker delivers significant performance advantages over traditional event streaming systems, offering 10x+ better performance compared to Kafka, with unlimited scalability and the ability to process over 500 million messages per second. This powerful capability is designed to handle large-scale data processing while providing seamless analytics on both structured and unstructured data as it is ingested. With VAST DataStore, organizations can break traditional performance and capacity trade-offs, allowing files, objects, blocks, and tables to coexist on a single, cost-efficient flash storage tier.

The VAST DataBase further enhances this by integrating transactional and analytical processing into one unified system, eliminating the need for separate transactional and analytics platforms. The VAST Event Broker activates computation the moment data arrives, turning raw data into real-time intelligence, enabling AI agents to automate decisions, respond instantly, and drive continuous innovation. By automating complex workflows through the VAST DataEngine, the platform supports real-time insights and event-driven AI processing without the need for additional infrastructure.

Additionally, VAST optimizes AI/ML workloads through GPU-Direct capabilities, enabling high-speed, direct data transfers between GPUs and storage, ensuring fast access to large-scale datasets for AI-driven applications.

The VAST Event Broker will be available in March, allowing businesses to process, store, analyze, and act on data from a single unified platform. This new feature significantly reduces AI infrastructure complexity, helping organizations achieve faster decision-making, automate operations, and leverage real-time intelligence with ease.