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Say the word “Kubernetes” (aka k8s)around dev/ops workers, IT managers, or even tech savvy marketers and CEOs and their attention will be yours. Like most new technologies in an era during which people believe “software is eating the world,” Kubernetes holds the promise of getting things done faster, cheaper and with greater efficiency in the name of bigger top lines, bigger bottom lines and lower costs.

The technology industry is undergoing a data revolution in which the unlimited storage and compute power of the cloud is changing how data is stored, processed and managed. Alluxio is a platform for data orchestration that aims to simplify and standardize how data is managed across different types of infrastructure by creating a layer of abstraction between the storage and application layers.

Data orchestration means trying to bring order and speed to a complex Big Data ecosystem, a conglomeration of storage systems like Amazon S3, Apache HDFS, or OpenStack Swift and computation frameworks and applications such as Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce. The data stack is fragmented and performance-challenged by a proliferation of data silos.

We are in the early stage of the data revolution. Today’s conventional wisdom states that hybrid latency prevents you from running analytic and machine learning workloads in the cloud with the data on-prem. As a result, most companies either do not burst their workloads into the cloud or have to copy their data into a cloud environment and maintain that duplicate data—and even this can take days or weeks.

The selected companies come from our massive data set of vendors and industry metrics. Yes, we use machine learning to analyze the industry in a detailed manner to determine a ranking for this list.

How is artificial intelligence – and its prominent discipline, machine learning – helping deliver better business insights from big data? Let’s examine some ways – and peek at what’s next for AI and big data analysis

Alluxio has roped in Rowan Scranage as vice president, global sales and business development to drive the company’s growth on a global scale. In his new role, Scranage will be reporting to Alluxio CEO Steven Mih.

I recently caught up with Haoyuan Li, Founder and CTO of Alluxio to examine the next critical piece in the data evolution: Data Orchestration – the missing piece in building hybrid and multi-cloud analytical architectures.

KubeCon 2019 is shaping up to be a fantastic event! And the number of sponsoring vendors at this year’s show is extremely impressive as the show continues to grow in scope and size! One of the companies that will be on VMblog’s MUST SEE list this year at the event is Alluxio.