Alluxio Virtualizes Distributed Storage for Petabyte Scale Computing at In-Memory Speeds

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Alluxio (formerly known as Tachyon), the world’s first memory-centric virtual distributed storage system, today announced its open source version 1.0 release. The vision for Alluxio is to become the de-facto storage unification layer for big data and other scale-out application environments in the same manner that Apache Spark became the standard computation layer.

Alluxio’s memory-centric architecture provides orders of magnitude performance gains over existing solutions and superior manageability by allowing developers to interact with a single storage layer API without worrying about the configurations and complexities of underlying storage and file systems. Co-created by Haoyuan Li, CEO of Alluxio, Inc. and a founding committer of Spark, Alluxio ushers in the next generation of storage virtualization for petabyte scale computing…

"A storage unification layer that bridges computation frameworks and underlying storage systems is long overdue in the enterprise," said Haoyuan Li. "Alluxio is that unification layer with a memory-centric architecture. Alluxio enables any framework to access any data, from any storage at memory speeds."…

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