Cloudera and VAST Data have announced a strategic partnership to deliver a unified “AI factory” architecture that combines Cloudera’s containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System.

The partnership pairs Cloudera’s lakehouse-based data engineering, governance, and AI services with VAST’s Disaggregated Shared Everything storage architecture, built on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. The joint offering addresses GPU starvation, in which expensive accelerator clusters sit idle because data pipelines cannot feed them fast enough to sustain training and inference workloads.