CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector

Beyond Traditional Storage: VAST in the Spotlight

Episode Summary

This podcast features VAST Data’s Jeff Denworth and Randy Hayes detailing their “operating system for AI,” a disaggregated, full-stack platform integrating exabyte-scale NVMe storage, high-performance databases, GPU-optimized compute, and vector search to support AI training, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows, with automated data curation, auditability, and federal zero-trust compliance to prevent data poisoning and enable secure, large-scale analytics.