BUZZ HPC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, and one of Canada’s fastest-growing sovereign AI cloud providers, has inked a deal with VAST Data. It will see BUZZ HPC work with the VAST AI Operating System as the foundational data layer underpinning its national AI infrastructure. With VAST, BUZZ HPC, with full data sovereignty, delivers secure, high-throughput access to training data and model artifacts, while providing scalable, multitenant infrastructure for advanced AI workloads – including training, inference, real-time reasoning, and agentic computing.
Pezhman Sharifi, sales director at VAST Data, who is based in Toronto, has been with the company four years from this upcoming January, and mainly supports Canadian customers or those who do business in Canada.
“BUZZ HPC is an entity from Hive Technologies, which is formally traded and has been involved as a crypto miner,” Sharifi said. “They focus on Sovereign AI, created their brand and launched in 2025. They recently announced a press release with Bell Canada, so they are definitely getting their name out.”
BUZZ HPC’s offices are local and are scattered across Canada. They have data centres in Montreal and Quebec City and a retrofit operation. Their head in Canada is in Vancouver, while their President and COO is in Toronto.
So what led BUZZ HPC to partner with VAST?
“They standardized on VAST, a data platform company, after we met some of the folks at an NVIDIA event and built a relationship with them,” Sharifi stated. “We worked with them to understand their Go-to-Market and their technical requirements. A lot of service providers have chosen VAST because they want a disruptive technology to create a unique niche. Because the technology is changing, they also need a flexible and versatile technology. We made sure that BUZZ HPC knew what they could build, and how they could monetize it effectively for the Canadian market.”
BUZZ HPC customers can also leverage the VAST AgentEngine, which delivers the real-time performance and orchestration required to support autonomous agents and reasoning-based workloads allowing users to move beyond static storage into active, intelligent computing.
“They would be able to offer customers more of a turnkey solution, which simplifies the process to run agentic workflows,” Sharifi indicated
With BUZZ HPC’s sovereign AI cloud capabilities, VAST AI OS allows BUZZ HPC to deliver Sovereign Data Control: AI sovereignty begins and ends with data infrastructure, and VAST’s Zero Trust architecture enforces compliance and accountability with local data residency and national regulations, providing end-to-end auditability and strict access governance. For BUZZ HPC customers including government, research and regulated enterprise users, this ensures not just where data lives, but how it’s protected, accessed and used.
“We have some white papers on this,” Sharifi said. “BUZZ HPC is laying the groundwork for the next generation of intelligent systems by giving Canadian government agencies, organizations, and model builders a sovereign cloud they can trust. With the VAST AI OS at the core of their infrastructure, we are unlocking new capabilities in secure, agentic AI – helping innovators to build and train models with unprecedented speed, scale, and control.”
With their Global Namespace for seamless AI development, BUZZ HPC is using VAST DataSpace to provide developers and researchers with consistent, high-throughput access to training data, checkpoints and model artifacts across distributed environments, accelerating collaboration and simplifying AI operations.
“The Namespace allows customers to run data in a very distributed environment, where BUZZ HPC lets them build a footprint, which they can leverage,” Sharifi said. “We can help them move through the Namespace, especially if there are no GPUs, It increases the number of use cases they can support.”
With their multitenant capability, BUZZ HPC has implemented VAST’s unique Disaggregated, Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, which separates compute from data while maintaining a unified namespace, allowing BUZZ HPC to scale performance and capacity independently, with built-in support for securely isolating performance between customers. VAST empowers BUZZ HPC to deliver consistent service across tenants, and eliminate the bottlenecks of legacy infrastructure while serving multiple use cases across training, inference, and beyond – all from a unified platform.
“VAST actually created the DASE term,” Sharifi said. VAST created the term. “When the company was founded there were gaps in the technology, so they created an entirely new architecture, which was different from Google File systems.”
“From a VAST perspective, we enable providers to do workflows,” Sharifi said. “They like that we have some built-in capabilities as well. It lets Canadian customers move from legacy apps to more agentic workflows and stay ahead of the competition.”
In two weeks both VAST and BUZZ HPC will be in Montreal, along with over 4,000 participants from 40 countries. They are all there to discuss the future of AI and to shape innovation and collaboration in this strategic sector.
“BUZZ HPC will be at the ALL IN event like us,” Sharifi said. “They also promote adoption of ALL IN in the Canadian market
So what does VAST bring to the table here?
“We are the technology that underpins what companies need to do AI,” Sharifi noted. “NVIDIA is GPUs and networking – but you need a technology underneath. That’s what VAST does in one unified architecture so they can provide multitenancy and be held in country, and our technology underpins that.”