VAST Data Introduces New Foundation Stack for Secure, Production-Ready AI Agent Sandboxes with @nvidia at #gtcberlin: vastdata.com/press-releases…

T-minus one day until @NVIDIAGTC.

Berlin is wrapped in green. The @BUZZHPC team is on the ground.

This week’s question: can AI stay sovereign without staying isolated?

We think yes.

So do our partners @nvidia, @VAST_Data and @cohere.

Ask us how.

@VAST_Data Thanks, @VAST_Data! Agreed that agents need compute, data and security working as one system. 💯

Looking forward to Alon’s panel tomorrow at 3:40 p.m. PT at Open Intelligence Summit.. 🤝

VAST Data and @digitalocean have expanded their strategic partnership to deploy the VAST AI OS inside the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud, powering DigitalOcean's new Agent Data Services (ADS). vastdata.com/press-releases…

The Open Intelligence Summit agenda is live, with new speakers from @NousResearch, @liquidai, Bright Data, @fivetran, @dbt_labs, @VAST_Data, @supabase, and Premise. Open models, data stacks, and agents. do.co/4zlAb1k

“Use this tool to push the boundaries of what is possible. Explore. Experiment. Innovate.”

With the path forward defined by @USPACOM Adm. Samuel J. Paparo at its July 22 commissioning, NPS students/faculty are taking full advantage of @NVIDIA DGX GB300 AI supercomputer. @USNavy

Today’s episode is on a company that I think is noticeably missing from our “top private tech companies” list - it’s valued at $30B and provides a critical infrastructure layer that ai runs on….

Plus I really enjoyed drawing 🍰&🍓

Here’s @VAST_Data x @chartsncrafts

In Jensen's 5 layer cake analogy for AI (energy, chips, infrastructure, models, applications), the middle layer (esp the software infra part) is much less understood - and thats where @VAST_Data became a $30B company few people know about, powering @spacexai, @CoreWeave, @nscale etc

My conversation with Renen Hallak, CEO:

00:00 Intro
00:51 The hidden software layer in NVIDIA's AI stack 02:28 What actually makes an "AI factory"?
05:13 Should Walmart and Goldman build their own AI?
06:20 "We infer during the day, fine-tune at night"
13:16 Announcement: frontier models & sensitive data
15:32 From P vs. NP to founding VAST Data
17:32 OpenAI, Navier–Stokes and 10,000 agents
20:25 The pre-transformer insight behind VAST
21:55 DASE: VAST's "shared everything" architecture
25:18 "Storage was where startups go to die"
27:39 Trillions of vectors: why old databases break
29:01 Are S3, Snowflake and Databricks ready for AI
31:29 Data gravity, vendor lock-in and zero churn
33:13 Training vs. inference: why the infrastructure changes
34:46 Model routing, KV caches, RAG & agent memory
36:59 Identity, permissions and security for AI agents 40:27 Can multi-agent systems unlock scientific discovery?
41:55 DataEnclave: how confidential AI protects data and weights
45:16 Who should be AI's trust layer?
46:37 "Sometimes it scares me": 500 petabytes to 2 exabytes
50:08 Is circular AI financing creating systemic risk
51:32 Why VAST is profitable when AI infra isn't
53:24 What separates the winning neoclouds?
55:06 "Their lunch is being eaten": why hyperscalers lag
59:10 Where will the trillions accrue across the AI stack
1:01:18 NVIDIA: "There's no legal document between us"
1:03:59 What VAST learned from xAI and @elonmusk
1:05:36 "Bad things loudly and often": building at AI speed
1:06:53 More change in 10 years than the previous 1,000?
1:08:39 VAST's endgame: all the data in the world

Enterprises won't risk their data, and AI labs won't hand over weights. Vast Data's DataEnclave aims to solve the trust problem in both directions.

Thanks to VAST Data thenewstack.io/vast-dataencla…

VAST DataEnclave puts AI models and regulated data inside NVIDIA Confidential Computing: encrypted guest memory, GPU memory, and NVLink, keys released only after attestation. Ships Q1 2027. storagereview.com/news/vast-data… #ConfidentialAI #VAST #AI @VAST_Data

🔐 New research from VP & Principal Analyst Michael Leone (@LeoneDataAI) examines how confidential AI brings models to regulated data while protecting records and model weights.

The brief explores @VAST_Data Enclave and four requirements buyers should use to evaluate confidential enclaves.

moorinsightsstrategy.com/research-paper…

@PatrickMoorhead
@VAST_Data

When the data can't move: What it takes to run enterprise AI anywhere
venturebeat.com/ai/when-the-da…

Some of the biggest Voice AI opportunities live in places where the cloud isn’t always an option.

That’s why Deepgram is excited to support @VAST_Data's launch of DataEnclave – bringing leading AI models into customer-controlled infrastructure while helping protect sensitive
Deepgram already supports self-hosted Voice AI for enterprises that need greater control over where their workloads run. With VAST DataEnclave, those teams have another path to put real-time Voice AI to work in the environments that matter most.

Because the best AI infrastructure meets enterprises where they are.

More on DataEnclave: bit.ly/4hhYt4T

Introducing VAST DataEnclave. Built on NVIDIA Confidential Computing, this new runtime in the VAST AI Operating System enables leading models to securely run against sensitive enterprise data while protecting customer and model IP.

9.22.26 AI becomes {un}bounded.

Stacking up 700+ LLM training jobs from the VAST fleet shows high write intensity due to checkpointing, but no matching read bursts. Only burst is at job start. There is no “feeding the GPU” bottleneck. Read bursts are one and done.

ICYMI: An #NVIDIADGX AI supercomputer is now online at @NPS_Monterey.

The DGX GB300 with NVIDIA Mission Control software gives NPS students and faculty access to AI computing, including model training and inference capability for applications spanning weather prediction, onse planning.

Thank you to our partners @DDNintelligence, @VAST_Data, and @Vertiv for helping to bring up this system with us.

Learn how we're helping to fuel AI innovation with NPS ➡️ nvda.ws/4bzMwWv

SkyPilot + VAST Data: AI Infra Meetup in SF on Aug 18.

Talks on infra, agent sandboxes, and the systems behind model training & inference.

Check it out :)

What does sovereign AI actually require to perform at production scale?

Jason Hammons, VP Systems Engineering – International at @VAST_Data, discusses how our approach to distributed inference gives AI natives and enterprises the foundations to scale.

Watch in full: bit.ly/4wFfbSa

Co-built with @togethercompute, our next-gen AI Factory is deploying @nvidia GB300 NVL72 for AI inference and reasoning at scale.

With Pegatron, @Vertiv, and @VAST_Data, we’re bringing high-density compute, advanced cooling, and AI-optimized storage together to power the future.