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Shared Everything
by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Shared Everything is VAST Data’s editorial and thought leadership platform, spotlighting the technical frontlines of AI infrastructure, datacenters, and cloud architecture. Through in-depth interviews, expert-led discussions, and narrative-driven content, we explore how the most advanced organizations are architecting for the Agentic Age—where AI, data, and compute converge. Whether it's the latest in GPU optimization, multitenancy design, or the future of data orchestration, we dive deep into the systems and strategies shaping tomorrow’s digital landscape.
Episodes
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Building Video AI Agents in Hours Instead of Months
AI development is undergoing a fundamental shift as coding agents, advanced models, and preconfigured infrastructure dramatically compress the time required to build sophisticated applications. In this episode, VAST Data's Brian Verkley and Ram Bansal explore the emerging AI builder stack and how...
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Akamai on 25 Years of Distributed Infrastructure and the Road Ahead
Akamai has spent nearly three decades distributing infrastructure closer to where users and data live. Now AI inference is giving that architecture a new job. Akamai’s John Alexander and Ari Weil join to discuss the shift from centralized AI factories to distributed inference, the emergence of…
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How Do You Keep Enterprise AI Agents Under Control?
AI agents are moving from tools that assist people to systems that can search data, make decisions and take action on their own. That shift creates a new set of infrastructure problems for enterprises. In this episode, VAST Data co-founder and CTO Alon Horev explains why agents need secure...
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Models, Agents and the New Infrastructure Stack with VAST Data CEO Renen Hallak
VAST Data CEO and co-founder Renen Hallak joins us to explore what happens as AI moves from a handful of models to a world of millions of agents continuously using, fine-tuning and creating models of their own. We dig into model management, confidential computing, AI ownership and the growing...
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How CINECA Is Rebuilding HPC for AI
AI is changing the I/O profile of supercomputing, and CINECA is seeing that shift directly on Leonardo, where AI now accounts for more than half of the workload. Daniele Cesarini, Head of AI/HPC Architecture at CINECA, explains why AI training and inference introduce data-access patterns that...
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AI Factories Are Forcing HPC to Rethink the Entire Stack
AI factories are changing what research computing looks like as HPC and AI converge around increasingly powerful, data-hungry infrastructure. HPC industry veteran and current head of the charge for research and education in the Americas at VAST, Chris Ginder, joins us to discuss how research...
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The Hard Lessons Behind Computing’s Biggest Bets
Some of the most valuable lessons in computing never make it into the success stories. In this episode, HPC and AI veteran Glenn Lockwood draws on firsthand experience across scientific computing, national labs and hyperscale AI (NERSC, SDSC and Microsoft on its Fairwater supercomputer) to…
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Five Ways to Think About the Future of the Datacenter
In this special edition of Shared Everything, we've assembled some of our favorite conversations on the engineering challenges reshaping AI infrastructure. From power generation and rack density to cooling, networking, efficiency, and even the possibility of datacenters in space, these…
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The Infrastructure Around Kafka Is Ready for Reinvention
Kafka has been the backbone of real-time data streaming for more than a decade, but AI is changing what modern event infrastructure needs to deliver. In this episode, VAST Data's Matt Mohr joins us to explore the evolution of Kafka, where traditional architectures are beginning to show their...
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(Re)Engineering the Inference Stack
In this episode, we're joined by Stephen Bates, AMD Fellow in the AI Group, and Alon Horev, Co-founder and CTO of VAST Data, to explore one of the biggest architectural shifts happening in AI today: the move from training to inference. Using AMD and VAST's expanded partnership as a starting…
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Encore Episode: TACC's Dan Stanzione on AI, Power, and the Future of Supercomputing
TACC Executive Director Dan Stanzione, and VAST Data's Don Schulte discuss the evolution of the Texas Advanced Computing Center and its role in high-performance computing (HPC). Dan highlights TACC's history, including the transition from Stampede to Stampede 2 and the impact of AI on power...
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Where's The Real Bottleneck in Enterprise AI?
Everyone wants to talk about AI models, but most enterprise AI projects succeed or fail because of the data underneath them. In this episode, Abhas Ricky, Chief Business Officer at Cloudera, joins Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST Data, to explain why getting the right data to the right place at...
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The Data Mess the AI Era Exposes
Howard Marks has spent more than four decades watching every major shift in enterprise computing, giving him a rare perspective on what AI is changing beneath the surface. In this episode, he explains why the AI boom has fundamentally altered the economics of infrastructure, forcing organizations...
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AI Is Accelerating Cybersecurity Faster Than Enterprises Can Adapt
On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole sits down with cybersecurity analyst and longtime practitioner Adrian Sanabria to explore how AI is reshaping enterprise security faster than organizations can adapt. They discuss why AI has accelerated vulnerability discovery, the growing...
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Can We Build the AI Infrastructure We Keep Promising?
On today's episode of the Shared Everything podcast, we're joined by Rich Miller, one of the datacenter industry's longest-serving journalists, to examine what's really driving the AI infrastructure boom. We discuss the growing gap between ambitious announcements and what can actually be built…
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Productivity Is Replacing Performance as the Real Metric
On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole Hemsoth sits down with Sven Breuner, Field CTO at VAST Data and one of the pioneers of modern parallel file systems, to discuss how AI is reshaping data infrastructure. Drawing on two decades of experience in HPC storage, Sven explains why...
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Scaling Alps for AI, HPC, and Trusted Research Environments
On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole talks with Maxime Martinasso, head of engineering at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, about the design of the Alps supercomputer and how CSCS is supporting both traditional scientific computing and modern AI workloads. They discuss...
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The Economics of AI Beyond Earth
On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast Nicole sits down with Dan Nishball, Ellie Holbrook, and Harley Blackard of SemiAnalysis to explore one of the most ambitious ideas in AI infrastructure: space datacenters. Using SemiAnalysis's orbital compute cost model and detailed report as a...
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What It Looks Like at The End Of The HPC Storage Stack
SciNet, one of Canada's primary academic supercomputing centers, recently deployed a new infrastructure platform built around AMD CPUs, H100 GPUs, NDR InfiniBand, and VAST Data. The deployment provides a useful look at how modern HPC environments are evolving as traditional simulation workloads...
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AI Meets DNA: Small Models, Big Data, Huge Impacts
In this episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Derrick Harris speaks with Oxford Nanopore VP of Machine Learning Mike Vella about the company’s relatively unique approach to doing AI in the fast-moving field of genomics. From hand-programming CUDA kernels to dealing with the gigabyte per…
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Where Data Stops Being "Data" in Quantum Systems
On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast from VAST, Nicole talks with Chris Powell, Quantum Information Science Lead at SAIC, about what “data” actually means in a quantum system. We move past storage and into representation, where problems have to be mapped into mathematical forms like...
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From Detection to Reasoning: Scaling the Infrastructure of Autonomous AI
In this episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett speaks with Norm Marks, VP of Automotive at NVIDIA, about how autonomous systems are evolving from detection to prediction and now reasoning-driven AI. Marks explains how that shift is driving massive increases in GPU…
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Beating the Flash Crunch With Efficiency, Not Supply
In this episode of Shared Everything, we sit down with Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST Data, and Scott Shadley of Solidigm to unpack what’s actually driving the current flash supply crunch. The conversation moves from NAND physics and fab constraints to hyperscaler buying behavior and the…
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How TACC Pushed Supercomputing Toward an IO-First Architecture
On today's episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole is live at SC25 with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), for a look at why Horizon required a fundamental architectural reset. Stanzione explains how rising GPU power densities, liquid cooled…
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When Software Becomes a System: The Architecture Behind VAST 5.4
In this episode Nicole talks to Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data, about the deep architectural shifts behind the 5.4 release, delving into how a new distributed runtime, native vector database, and event-driven compute layer transform VAST from a storage platform into a fully programmable…
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From Cloud to Cosmos: Jason Vallery on Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure
On today’s episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole talks to Jason Vallery, who just joined VAST after a 13-year career at Microsoft where he helped build the Azure cloud from the ground up. Jason reflects on the early days of object storage and cloud-native computing, when scaling from...
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Data Proximity and the Quantum Architecture of Tomorrow
In this episode Nicole talks to Chris Powell, Chief Scientist at SAIC, and Kartik, Chief Scientist at VAST Data, about how the foundations of supercomputing are being rewritten by quantum advances, new architectures, and the collapse of distance between data and compute. Together they explore…
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From AlphaGo to Surfer H: The New Frontier of AI Agents for All
In this episode Nicole talks to Laurent Sifre, co-founder and CTO of H Company and former DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Chinchilla. They explore how his discoveries in model scaling shaped the design of H Company’s computer-use agents, including the Surfer H platform that…
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The Future of Reasoning Models and AI Infrastructure
In this episode of the Shared Everything, reasoning models take center stage. No longer just text predictors, they now loop, branch, and drag in outside data, which blows open context windows and GPU limits. Alon Horev, CTO of VAST Data, unpacks how this shift strains infrastructure, while Kevin...
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Building the Secure AI Factory: Cisco, NVIDIA, and VAST Rewire the Enterprise Datacenter
On this episode, Nicole sits down with Danny McGinniss, VP of Product Management for Cisco Compute, Jacob Liberman, Director of Enterprise Product at NVIDIA, and John Mao, VP of Business Development and Alliances at VAST, to pull apart what it really means when three of the biggest forces in...
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How Engineers Navigate Data Transition in the Age of AI
In this episode, Nicole speaks with Aaron Chaisson and Blake Golliher of VAST Data about how the company is reframing its mission for the AI era, centering on the idea of becoming the Operating System for AI. Aaron lays out the strategy behind this shift, while Blake—drawing on his deep…
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How SK Telecom Built a Sovereign AI Cloud from the GPU Up
In this episode, we explore how SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless carrier and now a major force in AI infrastructure, joined forces with VAST Data to tackle one of the most difficult problems in large-scale computing: building a sovereign AI cloud that doesn’t compromise on speed,...
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Lambda's VP of Infrastructure on Building the Aggregated Edge for Sovereign AI
In this episode, Nicole talks with Ken Patchett, VP of Datacenter Infrastructure at Lambda, about how hyperscale AI and sovereign LLMs are redefining datacenter and data management strategies. Ken highlights the challenge of data gravity, emphasizing the critical role of co-locating extensive...
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The AI Dilemma: Why Federal IT Projects Fail and How to Fix Them
Stacks of federal reports tell countless stories of IT investments gone sideways, yet the stakes have never been higher as artificial intelligence reshapes government. David Hinchman, Director of IT and Cybersecurity at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), joins Shared Everything to…
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From Supercomputers to the Frontlines of AI Inference: Glenn Lockwood on Infrastructure That Lasts
In this episode of Shared Everything, Glenn Lockwood, just named Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data, shares what decades at the bleeding edge of large-scale systems design have taught him about architecting for an AI future that refuses to stay put. From building the first all-NVMe 30PB...
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The New Shape of Life Sciences Systems
00:00 – 02:00 Intro and Kartik’s background in physics and industry evolution; early days of personalized medicine and genomic research. 02:00 – 04:30 Breakdown of three main advances in life sciences: genomics, gene editing (CRISPR), and long-read sequencing technologies like Oxford Nanopore and...
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Europe Gets Real About AI Sovereignty and Neoclouds at GTC Paris
In this episode from GTC Paris, Nicole chats with Andy Pernsteiner, Global Field CTO at VAST Data, for an insider's view of Europe's quickly evolving AI landscape. From the sidelines of Nvidia’s packed event—strategically co-located with Viva Tech—Andy shares candid insights on the shift from...
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TACC's Dan Stanzione on AI, Power, and the Future of Supercomputing
Podcast Timeline: Dan Stanzione (TACC) & Don Schulte 00:00–02:07 Introduction by Nicole; guests Dan Stanzione (Executive Director, TACC) and Don Schulte (VAST Data). 02:08–03:51 Reflections on TACC’s history, reputation for innovation, and pioneering adoption of new technologies. 03:52–05:57...
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Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack
In this conversation with host Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, experts Wes Brewer (Oak Ridge National Lab) and Adrian Jackson (EPCC) discuss the evolving landscape of digital twins, particularly in the context of supercomputing and AI. They explore the distinctions between digital twins and traditional...
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Vectors, AI, and the Infrastructure Fury Ahead
00:00 – Introduction Nicole introduces Jeff Denworth, reminiscing about the Big Data era (~2010–2014). 01:15 – Big Data to Big Metadata Jeff reflects on the Big Data era (Hadoop, analytics, NoSQL). Today's valuations (Snowflake, Databricks) suggest Big Data's continued relevance. 02:11 – The Rise...
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AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules
Jonathan Koomey—renowned researcher and the mind behind Koomey’s Law—joins to explore how AI is testing the limits of power infrastructure and computing efficiency. We dig into the history of data center energy use, the real implications of synthetic data, and why renewables—not nuclear—may be…
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What Comes After Compute? An OS for AI
This isn’t about faster servers or more storage; it’s about designing infrastructure for a new species of intelligent entities. In this episode, we explore how VAST Data is setting the stage for the AI-native cloud, where inference workloads take center stage, and agents form the nervous system…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Shared Everything is VAST Data’s editorial and thought leadership platform, spotlighting the technical frontlines of AI infrastructure, datacenters, and cloud architecture. Through in-depth interviews, expert-led discussions, and narrative-driven content, we explore how the most advanced organizations are architecting for the Agentic Age—where AI, data, and compute converge. Whether it's the latest in GPU optimization, multitenancy design, or the future of data orchestration, we dive deep into the systems and strategies shaping tomorrow’s digital landscape.
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