Cloud and AI analytics company Alluxio has registered sales growth of more than 650% in 1H 2020 compared to 1H 2019. The first half of the year saw Alluxio growing presence in financial services, high tech, telecom, internet, gaming and ecommerce across North America, Asia and Europe.

Alluxio said it continues to attract new customers and expand existing customer deployments around the globe. Recent notable additions and success stories include: Alibaba, Aunalytics, Datasapiens, EA, Nielsen, Playtika, Roblox, Ryte, Tencent, VIPShop, Walmart, Walkme and WeRide.

“2020 has been an unprecedented year as organizations adjusted their priorities to emphasize cost saving and infrastructure modernization to prepare for future growth. For data & AI teams, a key solution is adopting a cloud / hybrid cloud strategy and Alluxio has become a critical element for that by bringing cost savings, speed and agility to data analytics and AI infrastructures,” said Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li, Founder and CEO, Alluxio.

The company recently announced the latest release of Alluxio, version 2.3. It focuses on streamlining the user experience in hybrid cloud deployments where Alluxio is deployed with compute in the cloud to access data on-prem.

Features such as environment validation tools and concurrent metadata synchronization improve Alluxio’s functionality. Integrations with AWS EMR, Google Dataproc, K8s, and AWS Glue make Alluxio easy to use in a variety of cloud environments, the company added.