Aerospike Names Don Dama Chief Executive Officer to Lead the Next Generation of Enterprise Data and AI Infrastructure

As enterprises move AI from experimentation into real-time operations, Aerospike enters its next chapter, powering applications that reach more than 2 billion people.

Key Highlights:

• Aerospike names Don Dama CEO to lead the company as it becomes the foundational data platform for operational AI.
• More than 2 billion people worldwide interact with applications built on Aerospike.
• Aerospike already powers some of the world's most demanding AI operations, including PayPal's fraud prevention platform (8M+ transactions per second) and AMD's grid computing platform (20M+ daily jobs).
  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerospike, Inc., the real-time state, context, and decisioning platform for operational AI, today named Don Dama Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the company as enterprises move AI from experimentation to operational reality.

The New Enterprise AI Challenge: Grounding Intelligence in Real-Time Reality

AI has demonstrated extraordinary capability. But agents and algorithms alone are not enough. Without immediate access to changing operational data, models reason and act on an enterprise reality that has already changed by the time a decision is made. AI-powered applications need instant access to real-time data, delivered by a new generation of enterprise data infrastructure operating in milliseconds, at an extraordinary scale, with deterministic performance and sustainable economics.

“A model may reason brilliantly. Compute may run quickly. And applications and agents can execute. But none of it operates correctly unless it is continuously grounded in the changing reality of the enterprise it serves,” said Dama. “You need to operationalize intelligence against the continuously changing state of the enterprise. That’s the infrastructure challenge of the AI era. And it’s not only the opportunity that Aerospike was built to address, but also what it’s delivered for years in some of the world’s most demanding applications and most successful AI and ML initiatives.”

Years of Success Powering Operational AI at Top Companies Worldwide

For years, Aerospike has delivered an operational data platform capable of acting on massive amounts of data in real time. More than 2 billion people worldwide now interact with AI and other applications built on Aerospike’s real-time state, context, and decisioning platform.

Last year, approximately half of Aerospike’s revenue came from large-scale operational AI and machine learning use cases, as enterprises seized the opportunity to fuel AI with real-time data for a competitive business advantage. Aerospike powers some of the largest-scale AI operations in the world, including:

• AMD’s grid computing monitoring platform, which runs more than 20 million jobs daily, with over 1 million running concurrently at peak.
• AppsFlyer's mobile attribution platform, which handles 2.5 million writes and 4.5 million reads per second with sub-millisecond latency at global scale.
• PayPal's real-time fraud prevention platform, which executes more than 8 million database transactions per second, completing roughly 75% of risk decisions in under 50 milliseconds.
  

A New CEO for a New Era of Operational AI

Don brings more than 25 years of experience transforming enterprise technology companies through periods of significant growth, market expansion and strategic change. Throughout his career, Dama has served as a CEO, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and General Manager at SingleStore, Mirantis, Oracle, Infor and i2 Technologies, as well as other enterprise data, cloud and application companies.

“Aerospike is in an exciting phase with accelerating growth and is well positioned to become a foundational data platform for operational AI,” said Tim Connor, chairman of the Aerospike board and partner at NewView Capital. “Throughout his career, Don has helped enterprise technology companies capitalize on market transitions and scale rapidly. He brings the ideal combination of urgency, product vision, execution discipline, and leadership to build on Aerospike’s momentum and capture the opportunity ahead. I’m excited to welcome him to the Aerospike team.”

About Aerospike

Aerospike is the real-time state, context, and decisioning platform for operational AI, helping enterprises ground intelligence in the current reality of their business and turn it into action at scale. More than 2 billion people worldwide interact with applications built on Aerospike. Organizations across AI, financial services, telecom, and adtech, including AMD, Mistral AI, and PayPal, rely on Aerospike to retrieve, update, and act on their most critical data in milliseconds.

To learn more and get started, visit aerospike.com/get-started/.

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