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Alluxio, the data platform company for analytics and AI workloads, has unveiled Alluxio Enterprise AI – a new high-performance data platform purpose-built for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads.

Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, today introduced a completely overhauled version of its product fine-tuned for artificial intelligence workloads.

The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in keeping the pulse on the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with the movers and shakers making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning.

Unless you’ve been living off the grid, the hype around Generative AI has been impossible to ignore. A critical component fueling this AI revolution is the underlying computing power, GPUs. The lightning-fast GPUs enable speedy model training. But a hidden bottleneck can severely limit their potential – I/O.

This article explains how Shopee’s “Data Access as a Service” improves API flexibility and speeds up interactive queries for developers.

Presto is a popular, open source, distributed SQL engine that enables organizations to run interactive analytic queries on multiple data sources at a large scale. Caching is a typical optimization technique for improving Presto query performance. It provides significant performance and efficiency improvements for Presto platforms.

Uber is using Alluxio’s virtual distributed file system to speed its Hadoop-based analytics processing by caching hot read data.

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

In this article, we will discuss how data engineers and data infrastructure engineers can make Trino, a widely used query engine that’s faster and more efficient.