Sarangan Rangachari leads the Storage and Big Data business unit at Red Hat and is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of Red Hat’s storage and big data software portfolio. Prior to this role, Rangachari drove Red Hat’s Cloud ecosystem strategy. He joined Red Hat in 2010 with more than 25 years of industry experience, including in-depth software product management and product marketing experience, and 18 years in storage software.Prior to Red Hat, Rangachari was the CEO for multiple start-up companies in systems and storage management. He founded Invio Software (acquired by Veritas/Symantec), was VP/GM of AP/J Region, and led product management and marketing for Legato Systems (acquired by EMC). Early in his career, Rangachari worked in various product management roles at Sun Microsystems.