Mark Cree SVP Strategic Partnerships, Hammerspace

Hammerspace, Inc. appointed storage and networking veteran Mark Cree as SVP of strategic partnerships.

He joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was the GM for the AWS Storage Gateway service and was responsible for overseeing product and business strategy with his team of techniter beng Ccal product managers and engineers.
 
Prior that, he was CEO and founder of InfiniteIO, a networked storage solution that enabled organizations to analyze, optimize, and scale application performance and storage cost throughout hybrid cloud environments without disruption. He was also the CEO and founder of NuSpeed, Inc., which developed the first commercial iSCSI product, laying the foundation to create the multi-billion-dollar iSCSI storage networking market. NuSpeed was sold to Cisco Systems in 2000, where Cree became VP and GM of Cisco’s storage router business unit.
 
He will be responsible for Hammerspace’s strategic partner ecosystem to drive growth through alliances, integration collaboration and OEM relationships. He brings decades of experience as a business leader, technologist and entrepreneur, combined with a strong network of professionals in cloud, IT infrastructure, data management and other related industries.
 
“A core vision for Hammerspace is to make its technology ubiquitous. To achieve this, we need to work with a wide range of partners that traverse the entire stack of solutions from infrastructure, as-a-service offerings, middleware and applications. Mark is uniquely qualified to help us accomplish this mission,” said Tony Asaro, SVP of strategy and business development.
 
Cree specializes in industries and use cases spanning AI and ML, DevOps, life sciences, M&E, electronic design automation and simulations. Additionally, he holds 4 patents in enterprise storage and caching technologies.
 
“Hammerspace is uniquely positioned to help organizations succeed in today’s decentralized world, and I am proud to join the talented and growing team,” he said. “Organizations have struggled for decades with the challenge of using data outside the data center or cloud region where it was created. Hammerspace’s solution unifies all data across storage silos into a single namespace and marks an evolution in how all data, especially unstructured data, is accessed, analyzed and activated.”
 
“Mark Cree is a great choice to drive the Hammerspace strategic partner business. Mark’s leadership in driving innovative technology to and ecosystem transformation with the public cloud vendors has been incredible,” said Scott Sinclair, practice director of the infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps segment, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Hammerspace is rapidly challenging how some of the world’s largest organizations access, leverage and share data today. The alliance ecosystem is a key part of its business strategy and represents an enormous opportunity for deep integrations and collaboration.”