For the inaugural episode of Shared Everything, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett sits down with Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of VAST Data, to discuss what comes after compute. If we erased all technical debt and legacy architecture and started building AI infrastructure from scratch in 2025, what would it look like? Hallak isn’t talking about cloud-native apps or hypervisors—he’s talking about power plants, 500kW racks, and a habitat for autonomous agents that don’t just execute tasks but persist, learn, and communicate over time.
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 of a new computational world.