Founder and CEO of VAST Data; previously head of R&D at XtremIO
Founded
Experience
- Founder & CEOVAST DataFeb 2016 to Present
Media & appearances
- Looking AHEAD Podcast: Episode 4 with VAST Data CEO Renen HallakAHEAD
Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of VAST Data, discusses his background in computer science and previous role at XtremIO before starting VAST in 2015. He explains how customer feedback revealed the pain point of expensive all-flash storage systems that forced companies to maintain multiple tiers of legacy hard drive storage, and how emerging applications in analytics, AI, and machine learning required fast access to complete datasets, making tiered storage obsolete. Hallak details how VAST architected a storage system based on future hardware roadmaps from vendors like Mellanox and Intel, including NVMe over fabrics, QLC flash, and 3D cross-point technology, designed to break traditional trade-offs between speed, cost, scalability, and resilience.
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