CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector · Carahsoft

Beyond Traditional Storage: VAST in the Spotlight

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When OpenAI's O3 model was introduced, intelligence shot up over 200% while cost per task increased.
A deep technical discussion between Kerasoft's CTO and Vast Data executives on AI infrastructure's role in public sector transformation. The conversation spans data quality challenges for AI training/inference, federal adoption barriers, and Vast's full-stack operating system approach. Key tensions explore how adversarial data poisoning threatens federal systems, necessitating unprecedented auditability. The episode bridges commercial innovation with public sector security requirements, emphasizing zero-trust architecture and traceability as table-stakes for federal AI deployment.

As heard by us

A practical look at public-sector AI infrastructure, with a clear view of the platform response.

This episode gives a useful look at how public-sector data centers are being pushed by AI demands, with a host and two Vast Data leaders keeping the focus grounded.

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Hear how Vast Data frames public-sector AI as an infrastructure problem, from storage and indexing to runtime and agents.

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