Expanso Wins 2025 Data Breakthrough Award for Open Source Data Platform of the Year

Bacalhau Named Top Open Source Data Platform for the Second Year in a Row

For the second consecutive year, Expanso has been recognized in the Data Breakthrough Awards, this time winning “Open Source Data Platform of the Year” for Bacalhau. Last year, Bacalhau took home the award for “Data Processing Solution of the Year”—and now, its role in redefining how enterprises and developers orchestrate workloads at scale has earned it another top spot.

The Data Breakthrough Awards saw over 3,000 nominations globally, with winners including industry leaders like Cloudera, Alteryx, Fivetran, Red Hat, and Mercedes-Benz. This recognition underscores Bacalhau’s growing role in modern distributed computing.

"Expanso’s Bacalhau is a true breakthrough in the world of open-source data platforms, redefining how organizations process and manage data at scale,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, Data Breakthrough. “By bringing computation directly to the data—whether in the cloud, at the edge, or on-premises—Bacalhau is driving unprecedented efficiency, security, and real-time insights. We are thrilled to recognize Expanso with our ‘Open Source Data Platform of the Year’ award in the 2025 Data Breakthrough Awards, honoring their innovation and leadership in the evolving data landscape.”

Why It Matters

Data-intensive organizations face a fundamental challenge: running workloads across clouds, regions, on-prem environments, and remote edge locations—without introducing unnecessary complexity or infrastructure sprawl. Bacalhau solves this.

With Bacalhau, enterprises can submit thousands of jobs, and the platform ensures they’re executed efficiently, wherever needed. It handles workload scheduling across dynamic environments, resolves failures and consensus when networks go down, and seamlessly integrates into existing data architectures.

This award is a testament to the developers, contributors, and customers who have helped shape Bacalhau into a powerful enterprise solution while remaining true to its open-source roots.

Looking Ahead

This is just the beginning. Bacalhau is evolving with new capabilities that further simplify workload orchestration, increase efficiency, and integrate deeper into enterprise ecosystems. Stay tuned—there’s more to come.