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Discussion: Powering Enterprise AI with High-Velocity Vector Search and SQL

@praseed Praseed — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:26:03 +0000

VAST and NVIDIA are collaborating on GPU-accelerated data processing for AI and data-intensive workloads.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Cisco and VAST are Establishing the Data Foundation for Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

@chalon.duncan Chalon Duncan — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:50:42 +0000

Cisco and VAST validate the shared data foundation for Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, using Cisco EBox and VAST AI OS to accelerate enterprise AI scaling.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Simulating End-to-End AI Pipelines with NVIDIA DSX Air

@derrick.harris Derrick Harris — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:06:03 +0000

VAST is partnering with NVIDIA on DSX Sim, which allows for full-stack simulations of AI workloads and environments.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: How NVIDIA Dynamo and VAST Unlock Context Reuse at Scale

@nicole.hemsoth-prick Nicole Hemsoth Prickett — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:03:03 +0000

NVIDIA Dynamo and VAST Data unlock context reuse at scale. Learn how efficient KV cache storage reduces latency by 20x and slashes GPU compute costs for enterprise AI inference.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: VAST FWD 2026: Renen Hallak on Building the New Infrastructure of Intelligence

@nicole.hemsoth-prick Nicole Hemsoth Prickett — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:57:08 +0000

Highlights from VAST FWD: CEO Renen Hallak explains why the AI era belongs to the operating system, not just the models, and how VAST is building that kernel.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: The AI OS in Action: From VAST FWD to NVIDIA GTC

@marianne.budnik Marianne Budnik — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:04:22 +0000

Explore how the VAST AI OS and NVIDIA are accelerating production AI. Discover C-Node X, VAST Foundation Stacks, and innovations for agentic AI at NVIDIA GTC.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Unleash Company Intelligence: Deploy Enterprise RAG

@yuval.peretz Yuval Peretz — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:08:55 +0000

Deploy enterprise RAG on VAST to power semantic search and document reasoning with real-time ingestion, embedding pipelines, and scalable vector storage.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Do we have any partners interested in building an integration with VAST? 🚀

@christina.neble Christina Neble — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:35:27 +0000

We’re inviting partners to build AI-powered integrations with VAST. Let me know if you’re interested, or complete this form to get started >> VAST Cosmos Technology Program

Discussion: Multi-Cloud AI: Why Data Residency Doesnt Guarantee Sovereignty

@VAST VAST — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:04:06 +0000

Multi-cloud AI depends on data mobility. Sovereignty fails when governance doesn’t move with data across clouds and pipelines.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Unified AI Data Management: The Foundation of Governance at Scale

@VAST VAST — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:18:55 +0000

Data silos break AI sovereignty. Unified AI data management ensures continuous governance, visibility, and control at scale.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Preparing Your Data Architecture for AI Inference

@VAST VAST — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:05:53 +0000

VAST’s Anat Heilper explains production AI evolution and capacity planning for AI agents.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: VAST Amplify: Turning Capacity Scarcity into Strategic Advantage

@VAST VAST — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:30:25 +0000

VAST Amplify unlocks stranded capacity, delivering six effective storage multiples without new hardware.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Welcoming New Partners to Our Expanding Cosmos Community

@christina.neble Christina Neble — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:24:14 +0000

We’re thrilled to expand our Cosmos Community to unify our global partner ecosystem!

I work closely with our technology partners [both software and hardware] and am excited about the innovation we’re driving together. Check out our press release to learn more >> https://www.vastdata.com/press-releases/vast-data-expands-cosmos-community-to-unify-global-partner-ecosystem

Discussion: Really Big Data: How Context Memory Is Reshaping AI Infrastructure

@VAST VAST — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:53:32 +0000

AI inference creates a new data source: context memory from AI interactions, growing rapidly.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Physics Needs a Smarter Machine

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:27:32 +0000

Physics, long comfortable with deterministic margins of error, finds itself staring at a set of probabilistic tools that don’t care about the old rules as HPC gives way to AI.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: The Evolution of AI: From Machine Learning to Agentic Systems

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:53:35 +0000

Explores how AI evolved from machine learning through generative AI to agentic systems and intelligent autonomous agents.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: The Lab Assistant Scientists Didnt Know They Needed

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:26:02 +0000

Explore how generative AI agents are revolutionizing scientific research by speeding up data analysis, hypothesis generation, and breakthroughs in biology and drug discovery.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: When Infrastructure Eats the Database

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:45:26 +0000

What VAST DB represents isnt the arrival of another database on the scene. Its the disappearance of the artificial boundary between ingestion and insight.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Weve Arrived at the 122TB Drive Inflection Point

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:16:10 +0000

At 122TB per drive, you get ~2PB per server. That means half the rackspace, half the power, fewer cables, fewer NICs, fewer things to go wrong. Its not just density.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: What Happens When Inference Outgrows Its Cage?

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:17:30 +0000

We can no longer say with a straight face that inference is the lightweight cousin. Its the same computational graph, just played in real time, with no room for failure.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Security is the New Bottleneck for a Hyper-Augmented Workforce

@VAST VAST — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:48:12 +0000

AI is fundamentally changing everything, and cybersecurity is at the heart of it all. Jeetu Patel, EVP & Chief Product Officer, Cisco at RSA 2025

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Reinforcement Learning Is How We Raise Agents, Not Just Build Them

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:06:38 +0000

AI agents wont be built; theyll be raised, trial by feedback loop, learning to crawl, stumble, and eventually run toward something that looks like real autonomy.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Building AI Factories: A Blueprint for Next-Gen GPU Clouds with VAST Data

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:57:04 +0000

Design AI factories at cloud scale using unified storage eliminating data silos and keeping GPUs fully utilized.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Why Industrial AI Fails Without Human Expertise

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:18:12 +0000

In industries where a single missed step can mean a factory line grinding to a halt or a plant spewing toxic gas, generative AI can become more liability than asset.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: What Happens When Models Run Out of Data?

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:18:11 +0000

Under current growth rates, and assuming training remains roughly compute-optimal, Epoch projects the world’s stock of quality training data will be exhausted between 2026 and 2032

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: RAG Creator on the 80% of Enterprise AI Everyone Misses

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:49:23 +0000

And its that 80%–retrieval infrastructure, ranking, chunking logic, observability, eval tooling, access control, compliancethat turns capability into utility.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Vast data bulk share creation

@ram Ram Bansal — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:20:45 +0000

@elsayedelmazon89

Do you have a code snippet of what you are trying to do? Just to clarify, are you still trying to create views or do something else?

If you are trying to create views you share the general structure of the csv file (similar to the example provided by Jonas) w/o sharing the specific details of the views?

Discussion: Microsoft Outlines Cool Choices, Hot Risks of Chilling Racks

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:39:58 +0000

Microsoft compares cold plate, one-phase, and two-phase immersion cooling noting that while two-phase offers the highest cooling efficiency and environmental impact reduction.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: What Comes After Compute? An OS for AI

@VAST VAST — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:39:02 +0000

An interview with Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of VAST Data, to talk about the futurenot as a fuzzy abstraction, but as a set of engineered steps the company is already taking.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Vast data bulk share creation

@elsayedelmazon89 ElsayedElmazoun — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:50:09 +0000

Hi @jonasrosland ,

Thank you for your reply,

How can we pipe fromcsv to vastcli.

yes,ACLs are applied to the shares and NTFS permissions as well.

90% of the protocol shares are SMB and some of them are Cross-protocols with mixed-last wins.

Thanks a lot and much appreciate your support

Discussion: HPCs Straight Lines Can't Cross AIs Data Chaos

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:10:10 +0000

HPCs parallel file systems were built for predictable, sequential data flows. AIs data lifecycle is a relentless, randomized churn, rendering the old storage model a bottleneck.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:42:42 +0000

Jonathan Koomeys take on AIs rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomeys Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Agentic AI Infrastructure: What Enterprises Need to Build Autonomous AI Systems

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:01:55 +0000

Discover data and compute foundations powering agentic AI and enabling scalable, input-driven autonomous agents.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: What is Shared Everything?

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:28:33 +0000

Shared Everything is a fully realized, independent-minded publication set inside a forward-looking tech company.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Agents of Change: COMPUTEX Keynote Marks AIs Practical Turn

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:07:49 +0000

“Humans query structured databases like SQL, but AI wants to query unstructured data… And so we have to create a new type of storage platform.”

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Mapping the Hyperscale Shift from Copper to Optics

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:40:59 +0000

Metas cluster diagram blueprint than battleground: dense, copper-bound GPUs pushing bandwidth to its physical brink, and optical fibers stepping in precisely where copper fails.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: AIs Linux Moment is Already Happening

@VAST VAST — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:07:49 +0000

Gen AIs infrastructure crisis with costly inference, rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift and modular, community-built solutions are rewriting datacenter rules

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Open Source: Document Research Assistant (RAG) Blueprint

@ram Ram Bansal — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:48:36 +0000

The Research Assistant Agent system is a comprehensive RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) solution powered by VAST DataEngine and InsightEngine. Check out our overview of InsightEngine to learn more.

Check it out: Document RAG - Research Assistant

Discussion: AI Everywhere Dreams Depend on Tough Datacenter Realities

@VAST VAST — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:16:00 +0000

Google’s bold shift to embed AI across all products announced at I/O hinges on massive, unprecedented datacenter investments

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: This Is the Moment VAST Certification Counts

@VAST VAST — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:40:09 +0000

New VAST Certification focuses on rigorous, real-world competence for modern disaggregated infrastructure.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: CoreWeaves AI-Driven Pipeline Is Rewriting Hollywoods Script

@VAST VAST — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:03:26 +0000

CoreWeave is replacing Hollywoods render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: VAST Data Named to 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:30:59 +0000

Learn why VAST Data was named to CNBCs 13th annual Disruptor 50 list of the most innovative private companies in the world.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Understanding the VAST Message Broker

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:53 +0000

VAST Message Broker: A Kafka-compatible streaming engine with high throughput, tabular integration, and real-time data processing at scale.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Extending the VAST AI OS Across Hybrid Multicloud Infrastructure

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:52 +0000

VAST Polaris extends the VAST AI OS across hybrid and multicloud with a Kubernetes-based global control plane for unified AI infrastructure management.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Transactional Lakehousing with the VAST DataBase

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:51 +0000

See how VAST DataBase delivers real-time updates, fast lookups, Kafka streaming, and high-performance analytics on flash-optimized architecture for transactional lakehousing.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: VAST Forward: Assembling an Integrated AI Platform and Ecosystem

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:51 +0000

Explore how VAST AI OS 5.5 unifies GPU acceleration, trillion-scale vector search, built-in governance, and global orchestration to power secure, production-ready AI at scale.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: Inside the Next Release of the VAST AI OS: New Capabilities for Real-Time AI at Scale

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:49 +0000

VAST AI OS release introduces hyperscale vector indexing, native SQL analytics, managed Kubernetes, and S3 over RDMA to power real-time AI at trillion-vector scale.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: The Architecture Behind Our 11 Vector Benchmark

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:49 +0000

Architecture behind VASTs 11 vector benchmark: hierarchical clustering delivers higher QPS, 99% recall, and 91% lower cost at 50B vectors vs sharded ANN systems.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: S3 over RDMA: Scaling the KV Cache Data Plane

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:47 +0000

S3 over RDMA enhances LLM inference by moving KV cache via zero-copy data plane, removing CPU bottlenecks, cutting jitter, and scaling AI workloads efficiently.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?

Discussion: GPU-Accelerated Everything

@VAST VAST — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:46 +0000

VAST CNode-X is a next-gen VAST AI OS server equipped with local GPU acceleration.

What are your thoughts? Did you learn something new? Do you agree with this take?