Tag: Alluxio
Meet Haoyuan ‘HY’ Li, a 2024 BDW Person to Watch
The big data revolution exposed the inadequacy of older technologies and paved the way for newer technologies. One of those technologies is Alluxio, which was developed by Haoyuan “HY” Li, one of the BigDATAwire Peop Read more…
Alluxio Nabs $50M, Preps for Growth in Data Orchestration
Data orchestration software provider Alluxio today announced the close of an oversubscribed $50-million Series C round, which its CEO plans to spend on a global expansion. It also launched version 2.7 of its software, wh 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…
Big Data Career Notes: October 2019 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details 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…
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…
Meet Alluxio, the Distributed File System Formerly Known as Tachyon
Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley's AMPLab is already being used to manage Read more…