Episode 26 - VAST Data | Great Things with Great Tech
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Introductions (0:00)
History and Founding (1:20)
Coming out of Stealth already ahead of the game (3:50)
"Legacy" All #Flash Arrays and the VAST Data value proposition (6:30)
Addressing the cost vs performance problem of Tier 0 (11:00)
Funding round and valuation (14:10)
Disaggregated, Shared Everything Architecture (17:33)
Using Laptop SSDs in original deployments (20:10)
Using Intel Optane and QLC and engineering efficiency (23:20)
Controllers built on Docker and Shared Everything (28:20)
Resolving East-West Traffic and Optane Persistency (30:10)
Getting out of hardware and focusing on software to drive penetration (32:02)
Use cases, Analytics, Object Storage, Backup, Archive and #AI (38:50)
Wrap Up and call outs (42:50)
☑️. In this episode I talk with Jeff Denworth, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder at VAST Data. VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Jeff and I talk about how VAST Data is a radically different architecture built upon disaggregation and shared everything compute and storage leveraging containers, Optane 3D Xpoint-based memory, NVMe-OF and QLC based SSDs for fast storage no matter what the workload...with vast amount of usable space that scales and is highly resilient.
VAST Data was founded in 2016 and is head quartered out of New York.
☑️ Web: https://vastdata.com
☑️ Economics: https://vastdata.com/economics
☑️ Storage Field Day Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1iG03PCRvE
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