Data storage company Vast Data Inc., which is in the process of transforming itself into an “operating system” for artificial intelligence, announced a new capability called Vast SyncEngine. The company says it acts as a “universal data router,” combining a highly performant onboarding system for unstructured data with a global catalog for building AI data pipelines. Available at no additional cost to existing customers, Vast SyncEngine is designed to simplify headaches around discovering and mobilizing distributed, unstructured datasets and software-as-a-service tools, so these data sources can quickly be plugged into their AI applications. Vast SyncEngine combines core distributed computing services, including storage, compute, messaging and reasoning into a unified data layer that spans cloud, on-premises and edge environments to power AI applications and agents. Vast SyncEngine works by collapsing data cataloging, migration and transformation into a single, no-cost capability within the Vast AI OS platform, enabling simpler integration and faster time to insights with lower costs. It enables teams to catalog and search across trillions of files and objects leveraging the Vast DataBase, with unlimited ingest throughput that’s bound only by the performance of the source and target systems. Moreover, its massively parallel architecture supports rapid scaling, simply by adding more nodes. By using Vast SyncEngine, companies can quickly build real-time, searchable data catalogs that span everything from traditional file and object systems to enterprise applications such as Google Drive, Salesforce, Microsoft Office and Sharepoint, and more besides. It supports deep metadata indexing to make data instantly discoverable. All of this unstructured information, the company says, can be moved without needing to create custom scripts and data transformations, fed into Vast’s InsightEngine and DataEngine platforms, which optimize it for AI applications and agentic workloads. As an added benefit, companies should see much lower costs, as Vast SyncEngine is essentially a replacement for existing data transformation and migration tools.