<s>
Alluxio	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
virtual	O
distributed	O
file	O
system	O
(	O
VDFS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
as	O
research	O
project	O
"	O
Tachyon	O
"	O
,	O
Alluxio	B-Application
was	O
created	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
California	O
,	O
Berkeley	O
's	O
AMPLab	O
as	O
Haoyuan	O
Li	O
's	O
Ph.D.	O
Thesis	O
,	O
advised	O
by	O
Professor	O
Scott	O
Shenker	O
&	O
Professor	O
Ion	O
Stoica	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alluxio	B-Application
sits	O
between	O
computation	O
and	O
storage	O
in	O
the	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
analytics	I-Application
stack	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
is	O
published	O
under	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
License	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	O
Driven	O
Applications	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Data	O
Analytics	O
,	O
Machine	O
Learning	O
,	O
and	O
AI	O
,	O
use	O
APIs	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
Hadoop	O
HDFS	O
API	O
,	O
S3	O
API	O
,	O
FUSE	O
API	O
)	O
provided	O
by	O
Alluxio	B-Application
to	O
interact	O
with	O
data	O
from	O
various	O
storage	O
systems	O
at	O
a	O
fast	O
speed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Popular	O
frameworks	O
running	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
Alluxio	B-Application
include	O
Apache	B-Language
Spark	I-Language
,	O
Presto	O
,	O
TensorFlow	B-Language
,	O
Trino	B-Language
,	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
Hive	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
PyTorch	B-Algorithm
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alluxio	B-Application
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
on-premise	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
cloud	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
AWS	B-Application
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Compute	I-General_Concept
Engine	I-General_Concept
)	O
,	O
or	O
a	O
hybrid	O
cloud	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
run	O
on	O
bare-metal	O
or	O
in	O
a	O
containerized	O
environments	O
such	O
as	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
,	O
Docker	B-Language
,	O
Apache	B-General_Concept
Mesos	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alluxio	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
started	O
by	O
Haoyuan	O
Li	O
at	O
UC	O
Berkeley	O
's	O
AMPLab	O
in	O
2013	O
,	O
and	O
open	O
sourced	O
in	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alluxio	B-Application
had	O
in	O
excess	O
of	O
1000	O
contributors	O
in	O
2018	O
,	O
making	O
it	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
most	O
active	O
projects	O
in	O
the	O
data	O
eco-system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
is	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
notable	O
enterprises	O
that	O
have	O
used	O
or	O
are	O
using	O
Alluxio	B-Application
:	O
</s>
