VAST Data leverages unique market position to develop full-stack AI infrastructure

"According to Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data, the company wants to be the Switzerland of the world of (AI) data infrastructure. In principle, it wants to work with everyone and on any infrastructure. That is not usually the easiest proposition, because it offers so many possibilities that it can also scare off potential customers."

"VAST Data occupies a somewhat special position within the IT stack. It is difficult to pigeonhole the company. Of course, it is a company that deals with storage, but it no longer sells hardware (it stopped doing so a long time ago). Nevertheless, it competes to a certain extent with traditional storage suppliers."

"If we think carefully about how we would characterize VAST Data today, the analogy with VMware comes to mind. The role that company took on more than twenty years ago in the field of virtualization on top of what"

VAST Data is building an AI Operating System by expanding its software offerings beyond its original DataStore foundation. The company operates uniquely within the IT stack as a software-focused entity that no longer sells hardware but competes with traditional storage suppliers. VAST maintains infrastructure neutrality, working across any vendor's servers and cloud platforms including HPE, Cisco, Lenovo, Supermicro, Azure, AWS, GCP, and Oracle. CEO Renen Hallak describes the company's ambition to be the Switzerland of AI data infrastructure, working with everyone regardless of their infrastructure choices. This positioning mirrors VMware's historical role in virtualization, where the company provided a unified layer across diverse underlying infrastructure.

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