Lenovo is an Alluxio customer with a common problem and use case in the world of data analytics. They have petabytes of data in multiple data centers in different geographic locations. Analyzing it requires an ETL process to get all of the data in the right place. This is both slow, because data has to be transferred across the network, and costly because multiple copies of the data need to be stored. Freshness and quality of the data can also suffer as the data is also potentially out of date and incomplete because regulatory issues prevent certain data from being transferred. Lenovo deployed Alluxio to address these issues and eliminate the need for ETL altogether. Data from multiple locations is cached in Alluxio and multiple applications can access it for analysis. The data is either accessed locally from memory or fetched by Alluxio for new requests as needed from persistent storage. The working data set is always available without the need for ETL. Alluxio fits within the existing security frameworks and enforces the policies in place, ensuring regulatory and compliance requirements from different countries and jurisdictions are met. You can learn more in the full case study
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Coupang, a Fortune 200 technology company, manages a multi-cluster GPU architecture for their AI/ML model training. This architecture introduced significant challenges, including:
- Time-consuming data preparation and data copy/movement
- Difficulty utilizing GPU resources efficiently
- High and growing storage costs
- Excessive operational overhead maintaining storage for localized data silos
To resolve these challenges, Coupang’s AI platform team implemented a distributed caching system that automatically retrieves training data from their central data lake, improves data loading performance, unifies access paths for model developers, automates data lifecycle management, and extends easily across Kubernetes environments. The new distributed caching architecture has improved model training speed, reduced storage costs, increased GPU utilization across clusters, lowered operational overhead, enabled training workload portability, and delivered 40% better I/O performance compared to parallel file systems.
Suresh Kumar Veerapathiran and Anudeep Kumar, engineering leaders at Uptycs, recently shared their experience of evolving their data platform and analytics architecture to power analytics through a generative AI interface. In their post on Medium titled Cache Me If You Can: Building a Lightning-Fast Analytics Cache at Terabyte Scale, Veerapathiran and Kumar provide detailed insights into the challenges they faced (and how they solved them) scaling their analytics solution that collects and reports on terabytes of telemetry data per day as part of Uptycs Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) solutions.
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