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Alluxio, together with Intel, has launched a go-to-market solution to offer an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem). The solution is said to eliminate performance degradation of analytics clusters that are increasingly built on disaggregated compute and storage architecture.

Alluxio, a developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is creating a solution in collaboration with Intel that offers an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem).

Alluxio develops a virtual distributed file system that began as the Tachyon research project at the University of California, Berkeley’s AMPLab. The technology provides hybrid cloud data orchestration – bringing data closer to compute systems – to improve data accessibility and speed up analytical and machine learning applications.

A new press release reports, “Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced a go-to-market solution in collaboration with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem). The solution eliminates performance degradation of analytics clusters that are increasingly built on disaggregated compute and storage architecture.”

Today, Alluxio announced a plan to collaborate with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Alluxio and Intel have entered into a strategic partnership enhancing cloud solutions by combining Alluxio’s capabilities with Intel Optane Persistent Memory
Cloud data orchestration software developer Alluxio has entered into a collaboration with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem). The companies aim to eliminate the performance degradation of the analytics cluster with the solution.

Reference architectures around the synergies between Intel Optane persistent memory and Alluxio’s open source data orchestration software for the cloud using in-memory cache will initially sell through the AWS and GCP marketplaces. A rollout to a specialized integrator channel, and to Azure will happen during 2020.

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