Universal Storage Disruption with Vast Data
A good part of the industry is focused on how to contend with data. We all know that we’re creating more of it at an eye-opening rate, but harnessing data for positive organizational or societal value is a non-trivial exercise. Entire industries have been built searching for this holy grail, and as the era of AI dawns upon us our desire to bring larger data sets to bear to solve our largest problems has grown.
There’s no better place to consider data architectures than Supercomputing. This community of the largest compute clusters on the planet knows a thing or two about data at scale, and I was confident that there would be innovation on display in the halls of SC’22. Last night’s plenary session featured some of the leading minds in scientific computing today (more on that in a future post), and one observation that really sunk in was that scientific discovery has fundamentally shifted from finding enough scientists to gather data to focusing scientists to infer the correct correlations from the mountains of data that we have. Industry tools to make this easier on the scientific community would offer the opportunity to more easily curate data and therefore speed insights. This observation in the realm of HPC easily extrapolates to the private sector from enterprise to the largest cloud providers.
I got the distinct pleasure to speak to Jeff Denworth, co-founder and CMO of Vast Data about their innovative approach to data storage…what they call Universal Storage. The Vastronauts have been getting a lot of attention of late for delivering all flash storage solutions that they claim disrupts traditional storage paradigms and provides an easier path for managing large data pools. Garnter placed Vast squarely on their magic quadrant, CRN named them the emerging player of the year…and today HPCWire recognized them for their ascent as a key provider for the HPC arena.
Check out my chat with Jeff where he shares more about the architecture and where the Vast team is seeing deployment interest. Jeff spoke about his background in Lustre and the fact that the Vast solution turns away from more complicated storage topologies with a NAS that is extremely well designed. Aha, THAT simplicity, efficiency and scale are absolutely going to grab attention. I hope you enjoy the discussion. Thanks for engaging. - Allyson
A good part of the industry is focused on how to contend with data. We all know that we’re creating more of it at an eye-opening rate, but harnessing data for positive organizational or societal value is a non-trivial exercise. Entire industries have been built searching for this holy grail, and as the era of AI dawns upon us our desire to bring larger data sets to bear to solve our largest problems has grown.
There’s no better place to consider data architectures than Supercomputing. This community of the largest compute clusters on the planet knows a thing or two about data at scale, and I was confident that there would be innovation on display in the halls of SC’22. Last night’s plenary session featured some of the leading minds in scientific computing today (more on that in a future post), and one observation that really sunk in was that scientific discovery has fundamentally shifted from finding enough scientists to gather data to focusing scientists to infer the correct correlations from the mountains of data that we have. Industry tools to make this easier on the scientific community would offer the opportunity to more easily curate data and therefore speed insights. This observation in the realm of HPC easily extrapolates to the private sector from enterprise to the largest cloud providers.
I got the distinct pleasure to speak to Jeff Denworth, co-founder and CMO of Vast Data about their innovative approach to data storage…what they call Universal Storage. The Vastronauts have been getting a lot of attention of late for delivering all flash storage solutions that they claim disrupts traditional storage paradigms and provides an easier path for managing large data pools. Garnter placed Vast squarely on their magic quadrant, CRN named them the emerging player of the year…and today HPCWire recognized them for their ascent as a key provider for the HPC arena.
Check out my chat with Jeff where he shares more about the architecture and where the Vast team is seeing deployment interest. Jeff spoke about his background in Lustre and the fact that the Vast solution turns away from more complicated storage topologies with a NAS that is extremely well designed. Aha, THAT simplicity, efficiency and scale are absolutely going to grab attention. I hope you enjoy the discussion. Thanks for engaging. - Allyson
