Deb Dutta has joined DataStax as general manager of the APAC region from Quadronics, where he served as executive director.

He most recently worked as vice president for orchestration and SDN at Juniper Networks, and previously held senior regional positions at Contrail, Brocade, and McAfee.

Dutta is also a director of investment and advisory company D&M.

He holds an MSc in economics from the University of Calcutta, and an MBA from the University of South Australia.

“DataStax continues to see rapid adoption of Cassandra in a form factor which is easy to operate, developer ready, cloud delivered and presents a dramatic reduction in TCO. We recently launched Astra DB, which is the first serverless deployment based on Apache Cassandra that works on all three major public clouds,” said Dutta.

“I am thrilled to join DataStax to help connect developers and enterprises in APAC to the power of Apache Cassandra by engaging, enabling and empowering them."

The company's APAC expansion will be supported by New Zealand-based Aaron Morton, will support this expansion in his new role as field CTO.

He moves to this position from that of vice president of engineering for global services, having joined the company in 2020 as vice president of engineering for AI ops.

Morton is an Apache Cassandra veteran, starting his contributions in 2010. He is a committer to the core code base and a member of the project management committee for Cassandra.

He has served as a Cassandra advisor to several organisations, including rEniac, Baffle and Datos IO.

Earlier in his career, Morton worked in various software engineering and development roles, including spells at prominent organisations such as Weta Digital and the BBC.