Alluxio
Top Executive: Founder and CEO Haoyuan Li
Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif.
Alluxio offers a data orchestration platform for managing data for analytics and machine- learning applications when the compute and data storage functions are in separate locations—an increasingly common situation in today’s complex hybrid cloud and multi-cloud IT environments.
The virtual distributed storage system is based on a memory-centric, fault-tolerant architecture that enables the separation of storage and compute functions. The technology is based on U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab Tachyon open-source project, whose creators founded Alluxio in 2015.
In October the company released Alluxio Data Orchestration Platform 2.4. The release offers new tools and functionality for linking data-driven applications, such as AI tools and business analytics software, with dispersed data sources like Hadoop-based data lakes, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
