VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, announced the appointment of Jonsi Stefansson as General Manager of Cloud Solutions. He will lead the company’s hyperscale cloud strategy.

Stefansson, founder and CEO of Red Stapler, brings decades of experience developing strategic partnerships with infrastructure providers. He has enabled hyperscalers to deliver differentiated, large-scale services.

This appointment highlights VAST’s commitment to deepening partnerships with leading hyperscalers. The VAST AI OS now aims to deliver consistent, intelligent infrastructure across public cloud, hybrid, and neo-cloud environments.

With this strategic move, VAST expands the AI OS’s ability to power agentic AI and large-scale enterprise workloads in the cloud. The unified platform consolidates data services, database capabilities, and agentic execution, providing hyperscalers with scale, performance, and efficiency for AI innovation.

Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO of VAST Data, said, “The Red Stapler team brings proven expertise in cloud-native services. With Jonsi joining VAST, we gain strong leadership to accelerate a unified, multi-cloud data foundation.”

Stefansson added, “VAST’s architecture offers a unified global namespace across on-premises environments, neo-clouds, and all major public clouds. This creates opportunities for customers building the future of AI and enterprise applications.”

Customers can now expect:

• Unified Multi-Cloud Experience: Seamless extension of the VAST AI OS across major cloud providers.
• Integrated AI Execution: Intelligent workflows run where data lives, enabling vector search, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent reasoning.
• Global Namespace & Scalability: Enterprise-grade performance with exabyte-scale support for AI workloads.

Related post

View all