DevOps.com

  • Latest
    • Articles
    • Features
    • Most Read
    • News
    • News Releases
  • Topics
    • AI
    • Continuous Delivery
    • Continuous Testing
    • Cloud
    • Culture
    • DataOps
    • DevSecOps
    • Enterprise DevOps
    • Leadership Suite
    • DevOps Practice
    • ROELBOB
    • DevOps Toolbox
    • IT as Code
  • Videos/Podcasts
    • Techstrong.tv Podcast
    • Techstrong.tv - Twitch
    • DevOps Unbound
  • Webinars
    • Upcoming
    • Calendar View
    • On-Demand Webinars
  • Library
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Calendar View
    • On-Demand Events
  • Sponsored Content
  • Related Sites
    • Techstrong Group
    • Cloud Native Now
    • Security Boulevard
    • Techstrong Research
    • DevOps Chat
    • DevOps Dozen
    • DevOps TV
    • Techstrong TV
    • Techstrong.tv Podcast
    • Techstrong.tv - Twitch
  • Media Kit
  • About
  • Sponsor
  • AI
  • Cloud
  • CI/CD
  • Continuous Testing
  • DataOps
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps Onramp
  • Platform Engineering
  • Sustainability
  • Low-Code/No-Code
  • IT as Code
  • More
    • Application Performance Management/Monitoring
    • Culture
    • Enterprise DevOps
    • ROELBOB
Hot Topics
  • How to Build Successful DevOps Teams
  • Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
  • Serial Entrepreneur
  • Chronosphere Adds Professional Services to Jumpstart Observability
  • Friend or Foe? ChatGPT's Impact on Open Source Software

Home » Latest News Releases » Alluxio Names Bob Wiederhold Executive Chairman to Help Drive Strategy and Meet Growing Demand

Alluxio Names Bob Wiederhold Executive Chairman to Help Drive Strategy and Meet Growing Demand

By: Deborah Schalm on May 22, 2018 1 Comment

Veteran enterprise software executive, former Couchbase CEO, brings Global 2000 open source software success and expertise to Alluxio leadership team

Recent Posts By Deborah Schalm
  • Exabeam Reinvents Security Analytics with Fusion XDR and Fusion SIEM Cloud Products to Address Security Needs at Scale
  • New Study Reveals Importance of Optimized Strategy for the Selection, Support, and Maintenance of Open Source Software
  • Applitools Integrates With Rally for Fast and Automated Bug Management
More from Deborah Schalm
Related Posts
  • Alluxio Names Bob Wiederhold Executive Chairman to Help Drive Strategy and Meet Growing Demand
  • Couchbase Unveils Latest Release of Couchbase Data Platform for the Massively Interactive Enterprise
  • Couchbase Simplifies the Journey to the Cloud with the Launch of Couchbase Managed Cloud
    Related Categories
  • Latest News Releases
    Related Topics
  • Alluxio
  • Couchbase
Show more
Show less

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed with venture backing by Andreessen Horowitz, today announced that Bob Wiederhold has been named executive chairman of the company. Wiederhold also serves as executive chairman at Couchbase, where he held the title of chief executive officer (CEO) from 2010 to 2017.

Cloud Native NowSponsorships Available

“It’s exciting to work with a company as promising as Alluxio with its strong community of developers and already-impressive roster of enterprise customers around the world,” Wiederhold said. “I look forward to working closely with CEO Haoyuan Li and his executive team as they expand their role in the big data ecosystem and help enterprises access all of their data for insight and competitive advantage. It’s a huge opportunity for our customers as they leverage a virtual data layer to simplify their infrastructure and drive innovations in analytics and machine learning.”

“Alluxio is at an inflection point after two years of amazing growth supporting the scaling demands and data access requirements of some of the largest businesses in Europe, Asia and North America,” said Haoyuan Li, CEO and co-founder of Alluxio. “Bob is a great addition to our team and his proven track record of success in open source and in enterprise technology will guide us forward as we grow into a world leader in enterprise software.”

Prior to Couchbase, Wiederhold was chairman, CEO and president of Transitive Corporation, the worldwide leader in cross-platform virtualization with over 20 million users before IBM acquired the company in 2008. Previously he was president and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services. Earlier in his career Wiederhold was a senior executive with Cadence and CEO at High Level Design Systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MS from Cornell University in Electrical Engineering.  Bob also currently serves as Chairman of Synthace, a company focused on automating biological research.

Alluxio solutions help customers in a wide range of use cases to maximize the value of their data. Alluxio enables a flexible data infrastructure that meets the volume, variety and velocity challenges of data-driven enterprises with a scalable virtual data layer in the cloud, on-premise or hybrid. With Alluxio, customers can scale beyond petabytes across storage silos, geographic locations and cloud providers allowing concurrent access to shared data sources without modifying applications. Alluxio provides standard access to multiple object or file data sources concurrently to deliver data at memory speed regardless of physical location.

About Alluxio

Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the world’s first system that unifies data at memory speed. Alluxio provides a single source virtual data layer connecting applications in any format running on premises or in public clouds. Intelligent caching and data management deliver fast performance, data consistency and high availability to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact [email protected] or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

Editorial Contact

Lonn Johnston for Alluxio

+1.650.219.7764

[email protected]

 

Filed Under: Latest News Releases Tagged With: Alluxio, Couchbase

« Connected Devices and IoT: How the DevOps Approach Can Help
AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications »

Techstrong TV – Live

Click full-screen to enable volume control
Watch latest episodes and shows

Upcoming Webinars

Securing Your Software Supply Chain with JFrog and AWS
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 1:00 pm EDT
Maximize IT Operations Observability with IBM i Within Splunk
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 1:00 pm EDT
Secure Your Container Workloads in Build-Time with Snyk and AWS
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 3:00 pm EDT

GET THE TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

Sponsored Content

PlatformCon 2023: This Year’s Hottest Platform Engineering Event

May 30, 2023 | Karolina Junčytė

The Google Cloud DevOps Awards: Apply Now!

January 10, 2023 | Brenna Washington

Codenotary Extends Dynamic SBOM Reach to Serverless Computing Platforms

December 9, 2022 | Mike Vizard

Why a Low-Code Platform Should Have Pro-Code Capabilities

March 24, 2021 | Andrew Manby

AWS Well-Architected Framework Elevates Agility

December 17, 2020 | JT Giri

Latest from DevOps.com

How to Build Successful DevOps Teams
June 5, 2023 | Mariusz Tomczyk
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
June 5, 2023 | Mike Vizard
Chronosphere Adds Professional Services to Jumpstart Observability
June 2, 2023 | Mike Vizard
Friend or Foe? ChatGPT’s Impact on Open Source Software
June 2, 2023 | Javier Perez
VMware Streamlines IT Management via Cloud Foundation Update
June 2, 2023 | Mike Vizard

TSTV Podcast

On-Demand Webinars

DevOps.com Webinar ReplaysDevOps.com Webinar Replays

Most Read on DevOps.com

No, Dev Jobs Aren’t Dead: AI Means ‘Everyone’s a Programmer’? ¦ Interesting Intel VPUs
June 1, 2023 | Richi Jennings
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
May 30, 2023 | Gilad David Maayan
Forget Change, Embrace Stability
May 31, 2023 | Don Macvittie
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
May 30, 2023 | Mike Vizard
Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps With AI-Engineered Tools
June 2, 2023 | Marc Hornbeek
  • Home
  • About DevOps.com
  • Meet our Authors
  • Write for DevOps.com
  • Media Kit
  • Sponsor Info
  • Copyright
  • TOS
  • Privacy Policy

Powered by Techstrong Group, Inc.

© 2023 ·Techstrong Group, Inc.All rights reserved.