Vrashank Jain
Director, Product Management · Dell Technologies
Position Evolution
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Best-of-breed partner selection rationale
Hardenedconfidence 93%In April 2026, best-of-breed was articulated solely around Elastic as the keyword and vector search choice. By June 2026, the same principle is applied across a full named ecosystem — Starburst, Elasticsearch, and Spark — and explicitly contrasted against the risk of bundled-but-inferior tooling. The expansion from one named partner to a multi-vendor architecture signals the strategy has been formalized and is now a public differentiator.
"We were looking for a partner who could bring both of those technologies to bear. We had a lot of internal experience with Elastic already. And like I said, we were looking for the best of breed, a best keyword and vector search company, and we landed with Elastic."
Source on theCUBE ↗"that's why we've been on this journey to really do best- of- breed partnerships, which means partnering with the best SQL engine out there, which is Starburst for federated queries, while partnering with Elasticsearch, which is arguably one of the best vector databases out there for keyword search and vector search. And then, bringing in Spark for that heavy- duty processing."
Source on theCUBE ↗Data destinations shifting to agents
Hardenedconfidence 91%In April 2026, Jain introduced the concept of agents replacing humans as the destination for data, framing it as an emerging customer behavior. By June 2026, the position has matured into a concrete architectural prescription — naming specific technologies (Iceberg, Elastic, Starburst) that must serve agentic workflows. The evolution from observation to named-technology blueprint shows the idea has moved from insight to product strategy.
"In the new way of doing things, our destination is an agent. It is not a human consuming this data anymore; it's actually an agent. And so what we're now starting to see are customers pushing us into allowing them to build data products. Data products that are particularly suited for agents with a given amount of context."
Source on theCUBE ↗"Agentic AI will bring together reasoning, retrieval and being able to take action, which means that these data platforms have to feed these agents with trusted versioned data products, think Iceberg, rate of retrieval across unstructured content, think Elastic, or federated queries into live enterprise databases, think Starburst."
Source on theCUBE ↗On-premise data security imperative
Hardenedconfidence 88%In April 2026, Jain framed on-premise as a response to enterprises wanting to protect closely guarded secrets while still accessing AI. By June 2026, the position is more specific and higher-stakes, explicitly calling out regulated industries and elevating on-prem platforms to parity with cloud-native ones. The hardening signals Dell is doubling down on this as a core market differentiation rather than a general observation.
"I think that's one of the big reasons we're seeing a dramatic shift to on- premise. If you look at the most closely guarded secrets and the most valuable information for any major enterprise, it's within their data center, it's within their control. They don't want to let that go, but that also doesn't mean that they don't get access to the amazing piece of technology that's available."
Source on theCUBE ↗"on- premise data remains critical. Many customers, especially in regulated industries, they still need to keep their sensitive data on their own environment, but they want to use that because it's such high value in their AI applications. So, that makes secure high- performance on- prem platforms just as important as cloud- native ones."
Source on theCUBE ↗All theCUBE appearances (2)
Future of Data Platforms Summit | Geeta Vaghela & Vrashank Jain, Dell Technologies
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Director, Product Management
NVIDIA GTC 2026 | Steve Kearns, Elastic & Vrashank Jain, Dell
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Director, Product Management