Asaro will lead alliance and sales strategy to accelerate the second wave of AI adoption, including sovereign AI, inference and agentic systems
Hammerspace, the high-performance data platform built for AI and hybrid cloud, announced the promotion of Tony Asaro to Chief Business Officer. In this expanded role, Asaro will lead Hammerspace’s global revenue organization — including sales, alliances, channel and go-to-market strategy — to meet rapidly growing demand from enterprises, governments, hyperscalers and Neoclouds to build AI infrastructure and data strategies around data sovereignty, high-performance training and agile inference.
As inference and agentic AI projects move into production, customers need to run AI where their compute and models live — without sacrificing speed, control, or governance.
Asaro previously led Hammerspace’s strategy and alliances teams, driving revenue and market expansion through technology partnerships spanning cloud platforms, systems providers and GPU ecosystem leaders. His appointment reflects increasing market demand for infrastructure architectures that deliver high-performance storage to feed GPUs wherever they are — across sovereign regions, on-premises environments, and public cloud — supporting production inference and agentic AI without compromising compliance or operational simplicity.
“Tony has been instrumental in consistently turning strategic partnerships into measurable revenue and durable market influence,” said David Flynn, Founder and CEO of Hammerspace. “As inference and agentic AI projects move into production, customers need to run AI where their compute and models live — without sacrificing speed, control, or governance. Tony will unify our revenue teams and accelerate how we scale that outcome with customers and partners worldwide.”
“When we talk about providing AI Anywhere, it is more than a pithy tagline but is actually a necessity in order to optimize Inference workloads,” said Tony Asaro, Chief Business Officer, Hammerspace. “We provide the only solution to truly deliver on this vision. Data orchestration. Multi-site data access. Hybrid cloud. Legacy storage systems just aren’t built to provide these capabilities — for them, it’s like asking a fish to fly. Our partners recognize this, and we’ve built strategic relationships with systems vendors and Cloud providers as a result. Hammerspace enables them to leverage all of our superpowers in conjunction with the value they bring to the table with their products, solutions and services.”
Alliance Momentum: Oracle Highlights Hammerspace for Sovereign + Hybrid AI
Hammerspace’s expanding partner momentum was recently underscored by Oracle highlighting the Hammerspace/Oracle OCI Dedicated Region. Enterprises can deploy OCI services inside their own data centers to meet sovereignty requirements — and use Hammerspace as a unified, policy-driven data layer to present a global namespace and orchestrate data placement across sites and clouds based on performance, cost and compliance.
This combination supports regulated, hybrid AI strategies by enabling teams to run compute near data, reduce unnecessary movement, avoid unmanaged copy sprawl and accelerate AI pipelines that demand consistent, high-performance data access. “The result,” says author Riley Burdon, “is an operating model that can help address residency requirements, simplify hybrid operations, and let you run AI where your data lives — without proliferating unmanaged copies or rewriting workflows.”
Continuous Sales Momentum and Coverage
Hammerspace enters 2026 with strong sales momentum, driven by strategic partner expansion, substantial VAR channel growth (with just under 200 resellers), and international expansion. Over the past year, the company launched its Asia headquarters in Singapore and scaled engagement across China and South Korea, while building new regional coverage for India and the Middle East from Dubai—extending field capacity, partner reach, and customer delivery for sovereign AI and GPU-intensive deployments.
