Open Source and Advanced Analytics Sales Pro, Rowan Scranage, Joins to Accelerate Global Growth
SAN MATEO, CA – October 3, 2019 - Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration technology used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today announced the appointment of Rowan Scranage as vice president, global sales and business development, reporting to Alluxio CEO Steven Mih. The company is now well positioned to meet the growing demand for its Data Orchestration Platform that enables enterprises to scale analytics workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
“Alluxio’s recent focus has been primarily on building open source momentum with more than 100 community users and 1,000+ contributors,” said Steven Mih, CEO, Alluxio. “We’ve seen a dramatic uptick in our user base deploying analytic and AI workloads to the cloud, reflecting a rapid acceleration in enterprise cloud adoption and the increased need for high performance hybrid/multi-cloud data analytics systems. Next, we are committed to building a world-class Go-To-Market team with Rowan at the helm to run both the sales organization and drive strategic partnerships with mega-cloud and compute-focused vendors. His strong background building sales organizations that drive open source products, as well as his deep experience in the advanced analytics and AI space, makes him the ideal choice.”
“I am excited to join Alluxio, a company that is at the intersection of cloud, AI, and open source with a platform that uniquely addresses the challenges that have come out of decoupled architectures in today’s modern workloads,” said Scranage. “I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and tapping into my open source and AI background to continue to drive Alluxio’s growth on a global scale, working with partners and customers as they identify new, innovative use cases for leveraging data across frameworks, clouds, and storage.”
Rowan joins Alluxio from Swedish Deep Learning Pioneer Peltarion where he was chief revenue officer responsible for sales, marketing and the Go-To-Market strategy. Prior to Peltarion, he was vice president & general manager for Couchbase, the leading NoSQL Engagement Database covering EMEA and Asia Pacific. He has held senior management positions at leading B2B technology companies over the last 20 years, including Amdocs, Guavus (Thales), Mformation (Nokia) and Lucent.
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About Alluxio
Alluxio is a leading provider of accelerated data access platforms for AI workloads. Alluxio’s distributed caching layer accelerates AI and data-intensive workloads by enabling high-speed data access across diverse storage systems. By creating a global namespace, Alluxio unifies data from multiple sources—on-premises and in the cloud—into a single, logical view, eliminating the need for data duplication or complex data movement.
Designed for scalability and performance, Alluxio brings data closer to compute frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Spark, significantly reducing I/O bottlenecks and latency. Its intelligent caching, data locality optimization, and seamless integration with modern data platforms make it a powerful solution for teams building and scaling AI pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Backed by leading investors, Alluxio powers technology, internet, financial services, and telecom companies, including 9 out of the top 10 internet companies globally. To learn more, visit www.alluxio.io.
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