Brian sat down with VAST Data’s CMO and Co-founder Jeff Denworth for a deep dive into VAST’s technology and to learn more about why this is such a game-changer for the industry and their customers. VAST is one of the brightest players in the market and gets high marks from its customer base. In fact, VAST customers have exhibited the highest recommender rating, with 100% of the organizations submitting reviews saying they would recommend Universal Storage. In addition, VAST has recorded the third year of solid growth with its AI data platform.
Brian sat down with VAST Data’s CMO and Co-founder Jeff Denworth for a deep dive into VAST’s technology and to learn more about why this is such a game-changer for the industry and their customers. VAST is one of the brightest players in the market and gets high marks from its customer base. In fact, VAST customers have exhibited the highest recommender rating, with 100% of the organizations submitting reviews saying they would recommend Universal Storage. In addition, VAST has recorded the third year of solid growth with its AI data platform.
Jeff is very forthcoming with details on VAST’s technology and shares his views on where the industry is headed. Although this is a lengthy discussion, this podcast is well worth the time.
Time-stamped in case you want to jump to a specific topic.
0:00 Brian asks Jeff to give VAST’s core mission
4:00 Architecture
7:00 How it works
10:00 Why haven’t others come up with a solution?
15:00 Data Protection
20:00 Deduplication and pattern matching efficiency
23:00 What is a VAST System?
32:00 Workloads and compression
40:00 What’s next?
45:00 How VAST uses DPU
50:00 Server vs Storage
55:00 What do customers worry about?
1:00:00 Partners
1:05:00 Processors
1:10:00 Continuing the discussion on power consumption
1:15:00 I/O traffic increases when adding flash to cluster
1:20:00 Deployment scenarios
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