Adit Madan from Alluxio presented how to enable fast big data analytics on Ceph object storage using Alluxio. Alluxio acts as a virtual distributed file system that caches data in memory to accelerate access to data stored in Ceph. This provides orders of magnitude faster performance for Spark queries on large datasets. A demo on EC2 showed Spark counting a 60GB dataset was 20x faster when using Alluxio to cache data from Ceph compared to directly accessing Ceph.