Vast Data VP warns stitched AI pipelines lose data sync

Vast Data is pushing back on best-of-breed agentic AI pipelines, with VP of systems engineering Vaughn Stewart arguing that stitched-together tools lose sync between source data. Stewart made the case at the AI Data Pipeline Forum on theCUBE, tying the problem to data sovereignty: about half the world's data still sits in corporate data centers or colocation facilities because it is sensitive and in regulated industries, he said. Vast's answer is DataEnclave, a confidential AI runtime announced in September 2026 with partners including Nvidia and Cohere. Stewart said it runs models in secured virtual machines, requires remote cryptographic attestation before keys are released, and logs all access to a tamper-proof database. Vast Data raised about $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation in April 2026.

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