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Vast Data, an AI operating system company, announced that Megaport, a provider of Network and Compute as a Service, has selected the Vast AI OS to support the next phase of its global automated infrastructure platform. Following Megaport's acquisition of Latitude.sh, the company is expanding beyond automated connectivity into integrated compute and GPU services. Vast will bring enterprise-grade data services to Megaport's network fabric, enabling customers to deploy and scale AI workloads across distributed, hybrid, and multicloud environments. As enterprises move AI into production, workloads are no longer confined to a single cloud, data center, or region. However, underlying infrastructure often remains fragmented, with network, compute, and data services managed separately. Megaport and Vast aim to close this gap by combining Megaport's private, programmable connectivity across more than 1,100 data centers and Latitude.sh's automated bare-metal compute and GPU services with the unified data services of the Vast AI OS. This creates a global services fabric for rapid deployment of distributed AI workloads with improved performance, control, and operational simplicity. "Enterprises want infrastructure that is automated, global, and flexible enough to support what AI requires next," said Michael van Rooyen, EVP of global innovation at Megaport. "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." For Megaport customers, the challenge is making data usable across every location where AI workloads run. Vast DataSpace extends Megaport's platform with a global namespace, enabling consistent data access and management across on-premises, public clouds, neoclouds, and edge locations without creating new silos or unnecessary copies. "AI does not scale on infrastructure that is powerful in pieces but fragmented in practice," said Phil Manez, VP of strategic initiatives at Vast Data. "Megaport has built one of the most important connectivity platforms in the world, and with the Vast AI OS, that platform can become a data-aware foundation for production AI."