Alluxio

Alluxio Unveils New Data Platform for AI: Accelerating AI Products’ Time-to-Value and Maximizing Infrastructure ROI

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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“Alluxio Enterprise AI provides customers with streamlined solutions for AI and more by enabling enterprises to accelerate AI workloads and maximize value from their data.

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  • “Alluxio Enterprise AI provides customers with streamlined solutions for AI and more by enabling enterprises to accelerate AI workloads and maximize value from their data.
  • Alluxio Enterprise AI enables enterprise AI infrastructure to be performant, seamless, scalable and cost-effective on existing data lakes.
  • Alluxio Enterprise AI can be added to the existing AI infrastructure consisting of AI compute engines and data lake storage.
  • Alluxio will demonstrate for the first time publicly the newly available Alluxio Enterprise AI at AI Infra Day on October 25.

Alluxio Named to Forbes List of America's Best Startup Employers of 2023

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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SAN MATEO, Calif., March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data platform that simplifies the management of large-scale analytics and AI/ML applications, is honored to announce its inclusion as one of Forbes ’ "Best Startup Employers" of 2023.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data platform that simplifies the management of large-scale analytics and AI/ML applications, is honored to announce its inclusion as one of Forbes ’ "Best Startup Employers" of 2023.
  • Alluxio placed 142 on Forbes' list done in conjunction with Statista Inc. ranking the 500 best growing companies displaying excellence across employer reputation, employee satisfaction and headcount growth.
  • It is a huge honor to be included on this list.”
    The Best Startup Employers list is the fourth such ranking done between Forbes and Statista, examining the best performing startups and identifying the most innovative and best startups to work for.
  • The final list ranked the top 500 employers.

Alluxio Reimagines Architecture for Multi-Tenant Environments at Scale

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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This new release introduces the Alluxio operator, which simplifies deploying, configuring, provisioning, and managing multiple Alluxio clusters, reducing DevOps complexity.

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  • This new release introduces the Alluxio operator, which simplifies deploying, configuring, provisioning, and managing multiple Alluxio clusters, reducing DevOps complexity.
  • This feature makes one Alluxio cluster aware of another Alluxio cluster by automatically syncing the metadata between Alluxio clusters.
  • Deploying Alluxio clusters across any environment can achieve tenant-level isolation with the metadata of Alluxio clusters in sync at scale.
  • Using the Alluxio operator removes the burden of deploying Alluxio on different environments, greatly reduces the amount of manual work and simplifies DevOps when managing multiple instances of Alluxio.

Alluxio Featured Speaker and Silver Sponsor at QCon San Francisco

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, today announced its participation in QCon San Francisco, taking place October 24 - 28, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, today announced its participation in QCon San Francisco, taking place October 24 - 28, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.
  • Tuesday, October 25 at 2:55pm PDT Architecting Your Data Platform Across Clusters, Regions, and Clouds , by Adit Madan, director of product management at Alluxio.
  • Whether data is distributed across multiple datacenters and/or clouds, a successful heterogeneous data platform requires efficient data access.
  • Alluxio enables companies to embrace the cloud migration strategy or multi-cloud architecture for large-scale analytics and AI workloads.

Alluxio Featured Speaker and Premier Sponsor at PrestoCon Day

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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Alluxio will also be hosting a Presto Committer Virtual Office Hour to answer any questions related to Presto and Alluxio.

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  • Alluxio will also be hosting a Presto Committer Virtual Office Hour to answer any questions related to Presto and Alluxio.
  • July 21 at 11:45 am PT Dynamic UDF Framework and its Applications , by Rongrong Zhong at Alluxio and Yanbing Zhang, software engineer at Bytedance.
  • In this talk, Rongrong and Yanbing will talk about a microservice that they built at Uber to analyze Presto queries.
  • Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeleys AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project.

Alluxio Will Present Session At Open Source Summit About Building Super-Contributors in an Open Source Community

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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SAN MATEO, Calif., June 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, today announced it will present a session at the Linux Foundations Open Source Summit about strategies for building super-contributors in an open source community.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., June 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alluxio , the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, today announced it will present a session at the Linux Foundations Open Source Summit about strategies for building super-contributors in an open source community.
  • Session Presenters: Bin Fan, Founding Engineer & VP of Open Source, Alluxio; Jasmine Wang, Community Manager & DevRel, Alluxio
    Session Details: The lack of community engagement is one of the most significant barriers to the survival of open source projects.
  • The Alluxio open source community experimented with different approaches to nurture the community.
  • In this talk, Bin Fan will share the story and findings of engaging the Alluxio community over the past six years.

Alluxio Expands Data Access and Security for Data-driven Applications in Heterogeneous Environments with v2.8 Release

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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Alluxio 2.8 enhances S3 API compatibility, so onboarding and managing Alluxio on existing large data pipelines becomes much easier.

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  • Alluxio 2.8 enhances S3 API compatibility, so onboarding and managing Alluxio on existing large data pipelines becomes much easier.
  • As a major enhancement to enterprise-grade security, Alluxio 2.8 adds features to support server-side encryption capabilities for securing and governing data.
  • Alluxio 2.8 improves reliability of data movement across heterogeneous storage systems with enhanced usability of policy-based data management and high availability.
  • The Enterprise Edition of Alluxio 2.8 supports encryption of data in Alluxio managed storage at REST as an essential security feature.

WeRide Relies on Alluxio for its Cross-Region Hybrid Cloud Storage Gateway for Machine Learning and AI

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Thursday, October 14, 2021
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For example, prior to developing or debugging, developers need to download the latest data from the cloud to their local environment.

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  • For example, prior to developing or debugging, developers need to download the latest data from the cloud to their local environment.
  • Currently, WeRide maintains the local copies by running a cron job to clean up local data on a regular basis.
  • Data orchestration for WeRide via Alluxio is now a critical component of connecting in-office machine learning applications with data in the cloud, said Haoyuan Li, founder and CEO, Alluxio.
  • Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects.

Aunalytics Leverages Alluxio As A “One-Stop-Shop” for Data I/O with Faster Analytics

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Monday, August 2, 2021
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The combination of Aunalytics cloud-native data analytics platform coupled with Alluxios open-source data orchestration software enables customers to harness the power of universal data access across all data sources and derive AI-driven answers for competitive advantage, said Tom Panozzo, Analytics Cloud CTO, Aunalytics.

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  • The combination of Aunalytics cloud-native data analytics platform coupled with Alluxios open-source data orchestration software enables customers to harness the power of universal data access across all data sources and derive AI-driven answers for competitive advantage, said Tom Panozzo, Analytics Cloud CTO, Aunalytics.
  • Alluxio presents Aunalytics compute environments with a single point of access for all stored data regardless of its volume, velocity, or storage I/O performance capabilities.
  • Alluxio is the primary data access and write mechanism for the batch compute environment, dynamic query environment, and primary product DaybreakTM.
  • Alluxio orchestrates data closer to data analytics and AI/ML applications in any cloud across clusters, regions, and countries, providing memory-speed data access.

Alluxio Brings Substantial Performance and Ease of Use Improvements to GPU-Centric AI/ML Workloads with v2.6 Release

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Thursday, July 1, 2021
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Alluxio aims to apply GPU compute to large datasets faster, which can help speed data ingestion, data transformation, and model training.

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  • Alluxio aims to apply GPU compute to large datasets faster, which can help speed data ingestion, data transformation, and model training.
  • In the latest release, Alluxio improves its system architecture to best support AI/ML applications using the POSIX interface.
  • Alluxio 2.6 Community and Enterprise Edition features new capabilities, including:
    Alluxio 2.6 unifies the Alluxio worker and FUSE process.
  • Alluxio 2.6 enhances the mechanism to load data into Alluxio managed storage and introduces more traceability and metrics for easier operability.