Alluxio is a proud sponsor and exhibitor of Spark+AI Summit in San Francisco. If you missed the conference, don’t worry we’ve got you covered!
What’s Spark+AI Summit? It’s the world’s largest conference that is focused on Apache Spark - Alluxio’s older cousin open source project from the same lab (UC Berkeley’s AMPLab - now RISElab).
Overview of the Conference by the Numbers
- Spark+AI Summit originally Spark Summit started off in 2013 with around 200 attendees. This is their 6th year, and from our observation there were over 3000 attendees!
- Of the 3000+ attendees, we had over 1500+ interactions and more than 500 in-depth conversations with folks already using or interested in learning about Alluxio
- 100 lucky attendees won our drones!
What We Learned
- Adopting a cloud strategy is a top priority for most organizations at the event
- Many organizations are experiencing challenges with hybrid cloud, because they are not able to access data in the public cloud and their own data warehouse efficiently
- Machine learning is on the rise, but SQL queries over big data is still the bread and butter of most organizations
- Kubernetes is changing the landscape of big data analytics. In the next 3-6 months, we will see a wave of organizations move to deploying big data workloads with container orchestration systems
- Attendees love to win drones ;) Find us at the next event: Strata Data Conference in New York
Reasons to try the Apache Spark, Alluxio, and S3 Stack
- This stack is cloud-native
- Apache Spark and Alluxio are open source
- S3 is cost-effective and scalable driving down devops costs with high performance
Learn more: 10X Acceleration of Spark with Alluxio Case Study , Get started with Spark and Alluxio in 5min , Download Alluxio
All of the sessions are recorded and will be viewable here.
Thanks to everyone for stopping by the Alluxio booth and the great conversations!
Additional resources:
- Community office hour (virtual): Running Apache Spark with Alluxio on Amazon EMR
- Got questions? Chat with Alluxio experts on Slack
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