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VC Ben Horowitz Dishes on Hadoop, AI, and Data Culture

Don’t mistake Ben Horowitz as big fan of Hadoop. “The product was just never good,” the noted venture capitalist said today in a wide-ranging fireside chat with Sisu CEO Peter Bailis during the Future Data Conferen Read more…

How Facebook Accelerates SQL at Extreme Scale

Serving SQL queries on a petabyte of data is one thing, but delivering it at Facebook’s scale is something else entirely. Earlier this year, the social media giant implemented the Alluxio distributed file system into i Read more…

Alluxio Claims 5X Query Speedup by Optimization Data for Compute

Ever since Alluxio emerged from the AMPLab, its focus as a data orchestration layer has been to grease the wheels for data initiatives by making remotely stored data appear to be stored locally. Today the company took it Read more…

Alluxio Looks to Bring Data Closer to Presto Engine

Alluxio, the cloud data orchestration specialist, is the latest vendor to join the Presto Foundation, which is shepherding the popular open source distributed SQL query engine. Presto was launched by Facebook (NASDAQ: Read more…

Cloud Looms Large for Big Data in 2020

If you’re involved with big data in 2020, then it will be hard to avoid the cloud, which has become the de-facto standard platform for storing and processing vast amounts of data. The cloud will change quickly this yea Read more…

Big Data Predictions: What 2020 Will Bring

With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It all starts today with what i Read more…

Alluxio Bolsters Data Orchestration for Hybrid Cloud World

Alluxio was conceived at Cal Berkeley's AMPLab as a virtualization layer that eliminates barriers between data silos, and allows users to access remote data as if it were local. With today's launch of Alluxio 2.0, the te Read more…

Celebrating Data Independence

Every company wants the independence to do what they wish with their data. That's one of the first assumptions underlying this whole big data movement. But depending on where and how a business stores its data -- such as Read more…

Alluxio’s Storage Layer Gains Traction in China

Alluxio, the storage layer startup already working with some of China's largest cloud and Internet providers, is expanding its reach with a deal to supply its memory-centric virtual distributed file system to one of Chin Read more…

Über File System from Alluxio Gaining Enterprise Traction

It took several years, but now we're starting to see multi-hundred-node deployments of Alluxio, the distributed in-memory file system that was developed alongside Spark and Mesos at Cal Berkeley's AMPlab. By greasing the Read more…

This Just In

Alluxio Announces Advanced Cloud Service Integrations on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud

Nov 13, 2019 |

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 13, 2019 — Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced at the first Data Orchestration Summit at the Computer History Museum, the availability of a range of cloud offerings and integrations with the latest Alluxio version 2.1, as well as strengthening of partnerships with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. Read more…

Alluxio Appoints Rowan Scranage to VP, Global Sales and Business Development

Oct 7, 2019 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 7, 2019 — Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration technology used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today announced the appointment of Rowan Scranage as vice president, global sales and business development, reporting to Alluxio CEO Steven Mih. Read more…

Alluxio Delivers First Data Orchestration Platform Powering Multi-Cloud Analytics and AI

Jul 11, 2019 |

NEW YORK, July 11, 2019  — Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration technology used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today announced at AWS Summit New York the availability of Alluxio 2.0 with breakthrough innovations for data engineers managing and deploying analytical and AI workloads in the cloud, particularly for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Read more…

Alluxio Announces Preview of Alluxio 2.0

Mar 8, 2019 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 8, 2019 — Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, has announced the preview release of Alluxio 2.0, the most ambitious platform upgrade since the inception of Alluxio. Read more…

Alluxio Closes Series B Round to Increase Investment in Unifying Data at Memory Speed

Jan 17, 2019 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 17, 2019 — Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced that it has closed $8.5 million in Series B funding led by Seven Seas Partners with participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the total funding raised to date to $16 million. Read more…

Analytics Solution Released for Alluxio Enterprise Edition and Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage

Jan 17, 2017 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 17 — Alluxio (formerly Tachyon), developers of the world’s first system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced a solution with Alluxio Enterprise Edition (AEE) and Dell EMC’s Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) for big data workloads. Read more…

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