Alluxio Recognized for Technology Innovation in Open Source and Big Data with Industry Awards


SAN MATEO, Calif., April 05, 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 several more industry recognitions and awards for technology innovation.

Alluxio functions between computation and storage in the big data analytics and AI/ML data infrastructure stacks. It provides a data abstraction layer for computation frameworks such as Spark, Presto, and TensorFlow, enabling applications to connect to numerous storage systems across clusters, regions, and clouds through a common interface. Alluxio also provides advanced caching and “zero-copy” bursting, bringing distributed data closer to compute to improve application performance and reliability while reducing data egress and infrastructure costs.

Recent award recognitions, include:

  • 2022 Data Breakthrough Award, “Best In-Memory Solution of the Year" award - The Data Breakthrough awards program recognizes the data technology innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories. Alluxio is among those companies in the data technology ecosystem that have made groundbreaking solutions insights available in real-time.
  • InsideBIGDATA, “IMPACT 50 List for Q1 2022” – Alluxio earned an Honorable Mention for the first quarter of 2022, rounding out its recognition consistently quarter over quarter last year as one of the most important movers and shakers in the big data industry. Companies on the list have proven their relevance by how they are impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services.
  • CRN, “The 10 Coolest Big Data Tools of 2021” - Working with ever-growing volumes of data continues to be a challenge for business and organizations. Alluxio is recognized as one of the 10 coolest Big Data tools that caught CRN’s attention in 2021.
  • DBTA Big Data 50: “Companies Driving Innovation in 2021DBTA’s Big Data Quarterly presents the 2021 “Big Data 50,” a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data. Alluxio is included in this list of the most forward-thinking companies.

“Alluxio enables companies to embrace the separation of storage from compute and use Alluxio data orchestration to overcome the challenges this brings,” said John Mracek, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Alluxio. “We are honored to be recognized for our commitment to innovation in this area and for our contributions to the open source community.”

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About Alluxio

Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to data analytics and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, and clouds, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Intelligent data tiering and caching deliver greater performance and reliability to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Alluxio is in production use today at eight out of the top ten internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Seven Seas Partners, Volcanic Ventures, and Hillhouse Capital. Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact info@alluxio.com or follow us on LinkedIn, or Twitter.

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