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01 — The flagship explainer
So, What Does VAST Data Actually Do?
A BBQ-friendly explainer on what VAST Data actually does, why it matters for AI infrastructure, and how to explain it without the buzzwords.
02 — The deep technical one
High-Performance I/O Without the Myths
A technical reference on NFS, RDMA, page cache, load balancing, and what actually governs performance in real systems.
03 — A practical walkthrough
VAST Polaris on GCP: How to deploy it
A practical walkthrough for deploying Polaris on GCP, with enough detail to move from concept to a working environment.
04 — The recent / topical one
The History and Future of KV Cache
A broader AI systems piece on KV cache, inference behavior, and why data infrastructure becomes part of model performance.
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Why S3 Is Becoming the Backbone of the Modern Data Platform
A topic-focused look at why S3 is becoming the operating model for modern data platforms, from object semantics and HTTP access to security and…
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אז מה עושה חברת ווסט דאטה או VAST Data
הפוסט הזה מסביר מה עושה חברת ווסט דאטה או בשמה VAST Data
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So, What Does VAST Data Actually Do?
A BBQ-friendly explainer, written down so I stop doing it one friend at a time 1. Why This Post Exists (a BBQ Story) Earlier…
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High-Performance I/O Without the Myths – Best practices from VAST Data on NFS, RDMA, page cache, load balancing, and GPU Direct Storage
Source: Best Practices for High Performance I/O | VAST Data For years, infrastructure teams have repeated the same assumptions about storage: NFS cannot scale…
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VAST Polaris on GCP: How to deploy it
Running VAST on premises is a known quantity. Running VAST in a cloud, with the same data, same protocols, and same operational model as…
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Configuring VAST DATA NVMe/TCP Boot from SAN using Dell PowerEdge
Overview Goal 2) Recommended High-Level Flow 3 )Information to Collect Before Starting 3.1) Host-side information 3.2) Target-side information 4) Steps to Customize for VAST…
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The VAST Data Revolution: Moving Beyond 4KB IOPS to Unified Throughput in 2026
Prologue: The Night the Dashboards Turned Red It starts, as so many infrastructure stories do, with a red bar on a dashboard. It’s 2012.…
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The History and Future of KV Cache and how VAST Data is transforming the KV cache from a temporary, disposable byproduct of inference into a persistent, manageable, and valuable data asset.
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, we often hear about massive parameter counts, powerful GPUs, and breakthrough model architectures. But there’s a…
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The Great Storage Squeeze of the 2020s: Why Skyrocketing Component Costs Are Exposing the Fatal Economic Flaws of Legacy Architectures (And Why VAST DASE is the Only Viable Escape Route)
We are currently living through a “perfect storm” in the data infrastructure world, a convergence of trends that is putting unprecedented pressure on IT…
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VAST Data NVMe/TCP Block Support: Eliminating Silos and Unifying Workloads for VMware vSphere
In modern enterprise IT, complexity is the enemy of agility. Organizations have long struggled with multiple storage silos: Fibre Channel SANs for block workloads,…
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