Bringing a large language model from its initial training to deployment requires numerous systems and components. At Zhihu, we grappled with a multi-cloud, cross-region AI platform, requiring an efficient solution to facilitate the rapid training and delivery of models for production use cases. This led us to adopt Alluxio, the high-performance data access layer for … Continued
High performance data access LAYER for analytics & ai
Alluxio Data Orchestration Platform connects all your data driven applications across all your data sources in any environment. Now, you can focus on data outcomes.
SUCCESS STORIES
Top Scenarios When Modernizing Your Data Platform
Migrating to a hybrid- or multi-cloud data infrastructure
Moving off of legacy systems to cloud-native modern data stack
Onboarding new data-driven applications accessing geo-distributed data
Common Challenges OrganizationS Face
For Cloud Data Migration
Copies of data across data centers, regions, or clouds
Application rewrites to access data
High network egress costs
For PLATFORM EXPANSION
New data APIs based on Application type
Tenant isolation for isolation and bill back
High total infrastructure costs
Customer Case Study: Expedia
“With the introduction of Alluxio, we are seeing better performance, increased manageability, and lowered costs. We plan to implement Alluxio as the default cross-region data access in all clusters in the main data lake.”
— Jian Li, Senior Software Engineer at Expedia
Trusted by the World’s Leading Organizations
“Alluxio has proven to be a valuable solution in addressing the data access challenges of hybrid cloud for Comcast. It has provided us with faster data access, reduced egress costs, and streamlined data management, resulting in more efficient and effective data value creation for the organization.”
“At Uber, we run Alluxio to accelerate all sorts of business-critical analytics queries at a large scale. Alluxio provides consistent performance in our big data processing use cases. As compute-storage separation continues to be the trend along with containerization in big data, we believe a unified layer …”
“Alluxio with metadata caching shows up to 5.9x performance gain when handling large numbers of small files. Alluxio enables the separation of storage and compute by managing the allocated ephemeral disks to cache data from S3 local to Presto.”
Meet the Alluxio Data Orchestration Platform
Why Alluxio?
Technical Value
Caching to eliminate data copies
• Multi-tier caching across data centers, regions or clouds, no more error-prone manual replication
• Reduce latency and network traffic
Unified Data Access Model
• A single interface, credential handling and access model for applications to access data across any environment
• Easily migrate your applications without changing the access model
Multi-tenancy architecture
• Enable satellite cluster architecture to offload central storage bottlenecks
• Ensure SLAs of one team are not impacted by others
Business Value
Higher roi & lower tco
• Choose the most cost-effective data infrastructure in any environment without platform re-architecture
• Simplify data management and reduce cloud storage egress cost
Drive business agility & revenue
• Onboard application teams faster
• Grow your revenue faster with shorter time-to-value
Prevent vendor lock-in
• Your applications are portable between different storage or cloud service providers
• Become hybrid/multi-cloud day one, negotiate better rates
Learn More About Alluxio
This blog post discusses the synergy between Trino and Alluxio, and how to deploy Alluxio as the caching layer for Trino. You will learn Why should you choose Alluxio as a cache for Trino How do Trino and Alluxio work together How to configure Alluxio to point to S3 storage like MinIO How to query … Continued
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Alluxio 2.9 is generally available (GA) for both the free open source Alluxio Community Edition and Alluxio Enterprise Edition! With GA, you can expect stability, support, and enterprise-readiness from Alluxio. In this blog post, we explore how Alluxio is enabling growth and agility for analytics and AI applications … Continued
This blog was originally published in Razorpay Engineering Blog: https://engineering.razorpay.com/how-trino-and-alluxio-power-analytics-at-razorpay-803d3386daaf Razorpay is a large fintech company in India. Razorpay provides a payment solution that offers a fast, affordable, and secure way to accept and disburse payments online. On the engineering side, the availability and scalability of analytics infrastructure are crucial to providing seamless experiences to … Continued
A Fortune 50 technology company has successfully implemented Alluxio to achieve a hybrid-cloud strategy, become multi-cloud ready, cut costs, and boost agility. … Continued
This article shares the data platform practice at Expedia to federate cross-region data lakes spanning multiple geographic regions in the cloud. 1. Background Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel. Expedia powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform, with industry-leading technology solutions to … Continued
Today, many organizations are running a multitude of data-driven applications and data platforms that span multiple geographic regions and across heterogeneous environments – public, … Continued
Get Started with Alluxio
Alluxio Community Edition, based on the open source project, is always free and comes with community forum support. For those looking for more, we offer Enterprise Edition Subscriptions, which include both software and SLA-based technical support.