Alluxio Recognized for Technology Innovation in Open Source and Big Data with Industry Awards
April 5, 2022

SAN MATEO, CA –April 5, 2022 - 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 2021” – DBTA’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

Alluxio, a leading provider of the high performance data platform for analytics and AI,
accelerates time-to-value of data and AI initiatives and maximizes infrastructure ROI. Uniquely
positioned at the intersection of compute and storage systems, Alluxio has a universal view of
workloads on the data platform across stages of a data pipeline. This enables Alluxio to provide
high performance data access regardless of where the data resides, simplify data engineering,
optimize GPU utilization, and reduce cloud and storage costs. With Alluxio, organizations can
achieve magnitudes faster model training and serving without the need for specialized storage,
and build AI infrastructure on existing data lakes. Backed by leading investors, Alluxio powers
technology, internet, financial services, and telecom companies, including 9 out of the top 10
internet companies globally. To learn more, visit www.alluxio.io.

Media Contact:
Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for Alluxio
978-649-7189
beth@alluxio.com

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