GMI Cloud and Vast Data are teaming up on an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure offering.

The companies will combine Vast Data's AI data platform with GMI Cloud's AI cloud solution to develop scalable AI infrastructure.

The GMI Cloud built on the Vast Data Platform will support Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage to GMI Cloud's Nvidia GPUs to enable high data throughputs, and enterprises will be able to manage and scale their AI workloads with GMI Cloud's Kubernetes integration from control plane to management KPIs.

"At Vast Data, our mission has always been to power the future of AI, and that starts with working together with an ecosystem of customers and partners to offer industry-leading data infrastructure solutions," said Chris Morgan, VP of AI solutions at Vast Data. "Working with GMI Cloud ensures that customers can scale AI workloads seamlessly, manage data more effectively, and drive innovation with a cloud that adapts to their every need, all without compromising on security or reliability. With the Vast Data Platform, GMI Cloud is delivering an efficient, scalable, and flexible AI cloud to the enterprise."

"We are excited to unlock new, heightened AI ambitions for Vast customers with our instant, efficient GPU cloud," added Alex Yeh, founder and CEO of GMI Cloud. "Vast's data platform offers impressive data management capabilities, and we look forward to growing with them."

GMI launched in 2022, originally as a data center servicing Bitcoin mining, however, the company has since pivoted to AI via its GMI Cloud. The company teamed up with Singtel in September of this year to combine its GPU platform with Singtel's Paragon platform, enabling them to combine their GPU resources and infrastructure.

November saw GMI Cloud closing a $82 million Series A funding round led by Headline Asia and with participation from Thailand energy firm Banpu and Taiwan-based electronics company Wistron.

Vast Data has previously teamed up with Crusoe Cloud to create 'Shared Disks,' a petabyte-scale file system capable of reads up to 200Mbps per TiB per node with hundreds of Gbps in aggregate read and write bandwidth per cluster, available via Crusoe Cloud.