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Barclays accelerated Spark jobs from hours to seconds using Alluxio

Haoyuan Li · A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark) · Apr 13, 2016 · at 12:03

Haoyuan Li, founder and CEO of Alluxio, discusses enterprise adoption cases, referencing Barclays' published case study on using Tachyon/Alluxio.

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“They used Tachyon to accelerate Spark jobs from hours to seconds”

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Barclays used Tachyon (now Alluxio) to accelerate Spark job execution from hours to seconds.

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Barclays Spark Tachyon

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