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Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced it has joined Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation. Along with members such as Facebook, Uber, Twitter and Alibaba, together we help scale and accelerate the popular distributed SQL query engine Presto. In addition, Alluxio will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the very first PrestoCon. Presto with Alluxio brings together two open source technologies to provide a unique solution for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments for the modern analytic stack.

A new press release reports, “Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced it has joined Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation. Along with members such as Facebook, Uber, Twitter and Alibaba, together we help scale and accelerate the popular distributed SQL query engine Presto… ‘With more companies using Presto Alluxio Stack (PAS) for reporting and analytics, we see tremendous demand for both remote data access and data acceleration as organizations look towards modernizing their analytic stack, particularly to embrace cloud environments,’ said Steven Mih, CEO, Alluxio.

Data, data everywhere! What’s an analyst to do? These days, the practice of data integration has matured in significant and game-changing ways. The amount of innovation is so vast, that we can now genuinely talk of a new era in data provisioning: Data Orchestration!

Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li is the founder, chairman, and CTO of Alluxio. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley AMPLab, where he co-created Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) Open Source Data Orchestration System, co-created Apache Spark Streaming, and became an Apache Spark founding committer. He spoke with Upside about how to build an enterprise data strategy.

The biggest challenge in a Multi-Cloud environment is the amount of data and the synchronization of that data across on-prem and multiple Cloud providers. With Alluxio, our users can mount all data stores without having to maintain complete copies of the data in each of the cloud vendors you rely upon.

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Alluxio’s Founder, Chairman and CTO Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li forecasts seven major developments in cloud, AI, DevOps, data analytics and storage in 2020. Most organizations are in the early stages of the data revolution running many different workloads on a wide variety of platforms across clouds and hybrid clouds. 2020 will see even more advances in AI, machine learning and analytic workloads and technologies to support them.

Alluxio’s Founder, Chairman and CTO Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li forecasts seven major developments in the Cloud, AI, DevOps, Data Analytics and Storage in 2020. HY thinks Containers and Kubernetes, with a push from AI, will make the biggest impact on the IT, Cloud and Big Data Analytics businesses.

Engineers who can manage structured and unstructured data will be the most in demand IT professionals in 2020 as companies build out their data technology infrastructure, according to Alluxio founder and CTO Haoyuan Li.
He describes 2020’s “super-power” skill as the ability to understand data as well as pick the right approach to analyze it.