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Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today unveiled a redesigned website – alluxio.io – that merges the previous .org and .com domains with new features and documentation designed to better serve Alluxio’s global open source developer community.

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data for multi-cloud environments, today announced the appointment of Steven Mih as CEO. Mih succeeds founding CEO Haoyuan Li (HY), creator of the original Alluxio technology, who will now serve as CTO and Chairman of the Board. With Mih joining the company as CEO, Bob Wiederhold who joined Alluxio as executive chairman and board member last year transitions to being an independent board member.

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced the preview release of Alluxio 2.0, the most ambitious platform upgrade since the inception of Alluxio. This preview release, now available for free download, is the largest open source release with the most new features added since the creation of the project and is designed to allow the community to experiment with new capabilities and explore Alluxio for new use cases such as simplifying data engineering and access for AI model training.

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced that it has closed $8.5 million in Series B funding led by Seven Seas Partners with participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the total funding raised to date to $16 million.

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today named Dipti Borkar as vice president of Product and Marketing. Borkar brings more than 15 years of marketing, product and engineering experience from successful global enterprises IBM, MarkLogic and Couchbase to new role at Alluxio. She reports to CEO and company co-founder Haoyuan Li and will be responsible for all marketing and product strategy for the company.

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced the release of Alluxio 1.8 to accelerate cloud adoption for analytics and machine learning workloads. Location-aware data management tools provide a wide range of policy-based control within hybrid cloud environments and within cloud availability zones. Optimizations for object storage, and each major cloud provider, close semantic differences with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and ease application portability between cloud platforms. The new Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) interface enables machine learning frameworks to access cloud data as if it were in a local file system.