Alluxio announced the immediate availability of version 2.8 of its Data
Orchestration Platform. This new release features enhanced interface support
for the Amazon S3 REST API; security improvements for sensitive applications
with strict encryption compliance and regulatory requirements; and strengthened
automated data movement functionality across heterogeneous storage systems
without the need to manually move or copy the data.
Alluxio 2.8 enhances S3 API
compatibility, so onboarding and managing Alluxio on existing large data
pipelines becomes much easier. As a major enhancement to enterprise-grade
security, Alluxio 2.8 adds features to support server-side encryption capabilities
for securing and governing data. Data migration is a major challenge for
organizations having data stored cross-vendors, cross-clouds, or cross-regions.
Alluxio 2.8 improves reliability of data movement across heterogeneous storage
systems with enhanced usability of policy-based data management and high
availability.
"At Uber, we run Alluxio to accelerate
all sorts of business-critical analytics queries at a large scale," said Chen
Liang, Senior Software Engineer, Uber's interactive analytics team. "Alluxio
provides consistent performance in our big data processing use cases. As
compute-storage separation continues to be the trend along with
containerization in big data, we believe a unified layer that bridges the
compute and storage like Alluxio will continue to play a key role."
"The support for S3 API is
significant, making Alluxio much more accessible to a huge number of
customers," said Adit Madan, Director of Product Management, Alluxio.
"Together, our rich set of S3, HDFS and POSIX APIs enables true
storage-agnostic and multi-cloud deployments. The data migration capabilities
further eliminate vendor lock-in and provide organizations with the flexibility
to choose whatever they want to run their applications or store their data."
Alluxio 2.8 Community and Enterprise Edition
features new capabilities, including:
Enhanced S3 API with Metadata Tagging
Alluxio 2.8 enhances the support for
the S3 RESTful API with metadata tagging capabilities. With S3 API,
applications can communicate with Alluxio without a custom driver or any
additional configuration. By using S3 API, data-driven applications, end-users,
and admins can seamlessly and rapidly onboard Alluxio for new uses. Metadata
operations can be achieved through the S3 object and bucket tagging APIs.
Data Encryption for Enterprise-grade
Security
The Enterprise Edition of Alluxio 2.8
supports encryption of data in Alluxio managed storage at REST as an essential
security feature. In conjunction with SSL, this new feature supports
server-side encryption, ensuring data security. Alluxio now offers multiple
encryption zones for data it manages to meet the demands of security. Data
stored on the Alluxio worker is protected, and decrypted on the server before
being sent to a client.
Data Movement Across Heterogeneous
Storage Systems
Alluxio 2.8 Enterprise Edition also
improves the policy-based data management features, which facilitate data
access and movement between heterogeneous storage systems for better
performance and lower cost. Alluxio manages data placement between the
different storage systems with predefined policies. With transparent storage
options, organizations can choose whichever storage best suits their needs
without undergoing complex manual data migrations.
Availability
Free downloads of Alluxio 2.8 open source
Community Edition and trials of Alluxio Enterprise Edition are generally
available here: https://www.alluxio.io/download/