This document discusses modernizing a data platform for analytics and AI across single, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments using Alluxio. It describes Alluxio's key features like data locality, metadata locality, asynchronous data operations, and policy-driven data management that enable consistent performance, portability, and cost savings. Examples are provided of how Alluxio can be used to transition from on-premises HDFS to object storage to hybrid cloud and multi-cloud configurations.