Oscuro AI (OAI) FAQ's

Although not all encompassing, here are the most frequent questions we receive.

Certification

My OEM says you're not certified on their platform so why should I buy your gear?

A: OAI doesn't have to certify on any OEM system. OAI provides performant storage which is faster and cheaper than the OEM's. All OEM's work with NVME, and we are NVME.

The IOPS tool

I don't buy into the high IOPS number you all claim, throughput is what counts.

A: OK, put down the stick. IOPS are the measure and TP is second to that. You're USED to OEMs telling you they offer high IOPS and lying. We don't lie, 18 Million IOPS with sub 4ms latency. We offer both with no vertical application stack to buy, manage or CONTINUE to pay for.

FPGA vs GPU

My vendor says FPGA systems are garbage, difficult to manage, not that fast, not as good as GPU's and we need to learn a lot more skills sets.

A: Your vendor is lying. There's no special skills sets, because you're managing storage like any other storage. Your Vendor has an OS, we don't. Your vendor charges you yearly licensing fees for equipment you already own, we don't. And if either of you know anything about AI you NEED performant storage to FEED the GPU's.

Never heard of you guy

I asked all my vendors and NOBODY has ever heard of you, why is that?

A: Because your vendors don't want you to know we exist. If you know, then you won't be buying their architectures anymore. So they think. The big OEM's need to exist. Where would we be without Cisco on Networking. But, small, medium and large business don't have the budget Governments have, and they want the capability to stay competitive in the AI race.

Splunk HATE

Your team says Splunk is not a fan of yours, why is that?

A: Because we reduce Splunk footprint by 60%, licensing by 50%, increase ingest by 1000%, and reduce power, cooling, and server count, and they don't like that. Cisco and Vast have partnered NOW to bring performant storage to Splunk, when for many years Splunk employees told customers they didn't need "that much speed".

Do you have an overly complex Splunk environment that's costing you millions per year but can't ingest what they promised? Invite us in to meet with your team and the Splunk team and let's see what happens. Ask them if they will support you deploying Splunk on faster architecture than Vast and get ready for the answer you will get.

Somewhere, somehow, the OEM's forgot that YOU are the customer.

Why no OS?

Your team says there's no OS. Why is that? Why not do what the other OEMs did?

A: Because we want to bring performant storage to everyone without the "vertical apps" game all the OEMs are playing now. We prefer you use KVM (closest to BM) RHL6,8 and then run K8's, Hyper-V, VM's with minimal hit in virtualization to the IOPS or throughput.

Basically bring your own tools, leverage your enterprise licensing contracts and build with the tools you ACTAULLY need without orchestrators, storage controllers and other bottle-necks in the vertical application stack the OEMs feed you.