Carahsoft Data Center Innovation Podcast Series - Beyond Traditional Storage: VAST in the Spotlight
Date: October 17, 2025
This podcast features VAST Data’s Jeff Denworth and Randy Hayes detailing their “operating system for AI,” a disaggregated, full-stack platform integrating exabyte-scale NVMe storage, high-performance databases, GPU-optimized compute, and vector search to support AI training, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows, with automated data curation, auditability, and federal zero-trust compliance to prevent data poisoning and enable secure, large-scale analytics.
Meet our Speakers:
Randy Hayes – Vice President, Public Sector, Vast Data
Jeff Denworth – Co-Founder, Vast Data
Meet our Moderator:
Scott Robohn
Scott Robohn has over 30 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale Internet and IT Infrastructure and associated technologies for CSPs, ISPs, Data Center Operators, US Government organizations, and Enterprises. He’s served in a variety of end user and vendor roles in operations, support, engineering, architecture, technical sales, training, community development, and leadership. His vendor employee experience includes Cisco, Juniper Networks, Nokia, and DriveNets. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Solutional, delivering fractional CTO, technology consulting, and GTM services, is the co-founder of the Network Automation Forum (NAF), and created the Total Network Operations project and podcast (TNOps). He's a seasoned presenter and keynote speaker. Scott's engagements span a wide variety of interesting clients and projects in Networking, AI, Automation, Data Centers, Operations, Mobility, Security, Silicon, staying up-to-date with the critical trends.