Alluxio is an open source data orchestration layer that brings data close to compute for big data and AI/ML workloads in the cloud.
Founder Haoyuan Li was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley AMPLab when he built the beginnings of Alluxio. His goal was to build a new data analytics stack. Today, Alluxio runs workloads in companies such as Alibaba, BaiduBaidu, Barclay, CERN, ESRI, Huawei, Intel, and Juniper.