Big data, but faster: API speeds links between apps and storage

Alluxio, originally known as Tachyon, is giving big data applications fast, unified access to the storage where their data resides.
Now at version 1.0, Alluxio provides frameworks like Spark, MapReduce, Flink, or Presto with access to multiple types of storage systems. Cloud storage providers Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and OpenStack Swift are supported, alongside storage vendors EMC and NetApp.[ See what hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services came out on top in the Info