Backend.AI integrates with VAST AI Operating System to deliver high-performance data access for AI workload orchestration across training, deployment, and inference

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA & VAST Forward | SALT LAKE CITY, UT – February 25, 2026 – Lablup Inc., the AI infrastructure operating system company, today announced it has joined VAST Constellation as a Technology Alliance Partner, collaborating with VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, to help customers accelerate AI training and inference workloads through a validated integration between Backend.AI and the VAST AI Operating System.

As enterprises race to operationalize AI, proven partner integrations have become one of the fastest ways to deliver validated architectures, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate time-to-value. Through Constellation, VAST and Lablup are able to build, validate, deliver, and scale AI-ready solutions across the data center, cloud, and at the edge.

"Lablup is committed to democratizing AI infrastructure through accessible, efficient, and scalable technology," said Jeongkyu Shin, CEO at Lablup Inc. "By integrating Backend.AI with the VAST AI OS, developers and enterprises can now handle large-scale datasets and complex workloads while maintaining the reliability and high performance that modern AI demands. Storage infrastructure matters just as much as the orchestrator managing AI workloads, and Lablup is dedicated to delivering a unified environment that supports both seamlessly."

With this collaboration, Lablup integrates Backend.AI with the VAST AI OS to enable customers to orchestrate end-to-end AI workloads, from training to deployment and inference, with high-throughput access to training datasets and model artifacts through RDMA and GPU-direct data paths powered by VAST DataStore. This integration streamlines data access, reduces latency, and maximizes GPU utilization across heterogeneous compute environments.

By delivering a validated solution combining Backend.AI's GPU orchestration and workload management capabilities with VAST's Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture and unified data services, organizations can achieve:

- Faster deployment and simplified integration for AI pipelines through validated architectures that reduce implementation complexity

- Improved performance and predictable outcomes under sustained workloads with high-throughput data access and GPU-direct connectivity

- Consolidated infrastructure management that reduces operational overhead while scaling AI training, inference, and deployment environments

"Enterprises are looking for a simpler, more consistent way to deploy production AI, backed by validated integrations they can trust," said John Mao, Vice President, Global Technology Alliances at VAST Data. "We're proud to welcome Lablup into VAST Constellation, expanding the ecosystem of industry-leading solutions built on the VAST AI Operating System and helping customers reduce integration risk while accelerating AI-ready deployments from the data path to the application layer."

Lablup and VAST Data are collaborating on infrastructure for South Korea's Sovereign AI foundation model initiatives, and this Constellation partnership further strengthens their joint commitment to delivering production-ready AI infrastructure solutions.

About Lablup

Lablup Inc., founded in 2015, builds Backend.AI, a software-defined AI infrastructure platform that orchestrates heterogeneous GPU and NPU clusters at hyperscale with secure multi-tenancy and multi-node workload management. Its container-level GPU virtualization technology further maximizes accelerator utilization across training, inference, and deployment. Headquartered in Seoul with a U.S. subsidiary in San Jose, Lablup manages over 16,000 GPUs across 110+ sites worldwide, and Backend.AI is validated as NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software. Learn more at lablup.com.