This video provides coverage and analysis from VAST Forward 2026 in Salt Lake City. Rebecca Knight of SiliconANGLE Media, host, and Dave Vellante of SiliconANGLE Media, co-founder and co-CEO, analyze VAST's presentation of an artificial intelligence, AI, operating system and its universal storage architecture. The discussion addresses the company’s decade-long trajectory, partnerships with NVIDIA and cloud providers, customer footprint, roadmap announcements and VAST's positioning to support training, inference and multi-format data workloads within AI infrastructure.
Key takeaways include VAST's positioning as an IO-focused operating system for AI, the role of embedded trust and zero-trust controls in data protection and the enterprise return-on-investment imperative emphasized by theCUBE Research. Vellante notes that VAST benefits from the NVIDIA-driven AI build-out and indicates the company may time an initial public offering, IPO, around 2027; they highlight implications for AI infrastructure and storage economics. Knight highlights authenticity at the event and raises questions about human roles and workforce impacts; they underscore the need for practical enterprise ROI and clear roadmap milestones.
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This video provides coverage and analysis from VAST Forward 2026 in Salt Lake City. Rebecca Knight of SiliconANGLE Media, host, and Dave Vellante of SiliconANGLE Media, co-founder and co-CEO, analyze VAST's presentation of an artificial intelligence, AI, operating system and its universal storage architecture. The discussion addresses the company’s decade-long trajectory, partnerships with NVIDIA and cloud providers, customer footprint, roadmap announcements and VAST's positioning to support training, inference and multi-format data workloads within AI infrastructure.
Key takeaways include VAST's positioning as an IO-focused operating system for AI, the role of embedded trust and zero-trust controls in data protection and the enterprise return-on-investment imperative emphasized by theCUBE Research. Vellante notes that VAST benefits from the NVIDIA-driven AI build-out and indicates the company may time an initial public offering, IPO, around 2027; they highlight implications for AI infrastructure and storage economics. Knight highlights authenticity at the event and raises questions about human roles and workforce impacts; they underscore the need for practical enterprise ROI and clear roadmap milestones.
Moments after the opening keynote for VAST Forward, theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight set the stage from the company’s first-ever customer conference – a milestone moment for a 10-year-old company aiming to evolve from storage disruptor into something far more ambitious. With roughly 1,200 attendees and a partner lineup that reads like an AI infrastructure roll call – including Cisco, HPE, CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda and Crusoe – Vellante and Knight frame VAST’s bet on a universal, software-based data platform built to serve AI at scale, across formats...Read more
