Quobyte

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Quobyte
Distributed File System
IndustrySoftware Defined Storage
Founded2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Founder
  • Felix Hupfeld
  • Björn Kolbeck
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California
Number of locations
2
Websitequobyte.com

Quobyte, is a cloud-based software defined storage company founded by Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck.[1] Launched in 2013 it is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with operations in two other locations.[2] Quobyte specializes in turning commodity servers into a unified, high-performance, scalable software storage system.[3][4]

Quobyte is based on the latest distributed systems technology and runs on commodity Linux servers.[5] It is designed to help the users efficiently manage with the rapidly evolving complexity of storage infrastructure, allowing them to scale their businesses.[6][7]

History

Quobyte was established with the aim of simplifying the process of enterprise data storage.[8] The software was developed by former Google engineers, Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck, who previously worked on the development of XtreemFS, a distributed file system. The idea was to develop such a software storage system that is self-managing, reliable, and scalable, which came through in 2013 with the launch of Quobyte.[9][10]

Quobyte is a user-space application that runs on commodity Linux servers with hard discs and/or flash devices.[11] The servers' Quobyte services connect with each other and with the clients across an IP network (v4 and v6 both supported).[12] It uses quorum replication or erasure coding to secure data and ensure availability. It can be accessed via native clients, user-space plugins for Hadoop or TensorFlow (kernel bypass), or gateways for Object/S3 or NFS. Quobyte also offers a free Edition that has 150TBs of capacity.[13][14][15]

Products and services

Quobyte facilitates a vast range of services for:

  • High-performance computing: The Quobyte makes storage management easier by eliminating data silos and wasteful storage space, and eradicating performance limits. It also delivers 24/7 functionality and is hyper scalable.
  • Machine Learning and AI: Quobyte improves AI productivity by providing enough storage for a seamless operation. It optimizes the TensorFlow plugin to reduce latency and CPU burden, ensuring great GPU performance.
  • Enterprise Analytics and Big Data: Quobyte makes managing enormous amounts of data storage simple and scalable, allowing big data analytic workloads like Hadoop and Spark to run smoothly.
  • Kubernetes and Container Infrastructures: Quobyte’s distributed file system also integrates with Kubernetes and provides container-native storage, as well as meeting the needs of modern enterprise IT infrastructures and workloads.
  • Financial Services: Quobyte also facilitates high-performance storage for financial modeling and backtesting.
  • Media and Entertainment: Quobyte can also be leveraged by the media and entertainment industry, where people can use it to store data from post-production, VFX, Playout, Streaming, and CDN Origin Storage.

Apart from that, Quobyte also offers its services to the Life Sciences and IT as well as Low-Latency Storage for OpenStack and several other industries.

Funding

Quobyte is backed by four different investors. The most recent investors are Samsung Catalyst Fund and ALSTIN Capital.[16]

References

  1. ↑ TechBullion, Angela Scott-Briggs (12 September 2019). "Distributed File Storage System For Machine Learning: Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck, the CEO of Quobyte". TechBullion. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Enterprise data storage 2019 Products of the Year finalists". SearchStorage. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "How Quobyte Uses Software to Add Lanes to the Data Highway by SaadTFarooqi". Engineering.com. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Nalbone, Ken (3 June 2019). "Quobyte Brings HyperScaler Principles to Enterprise Storage". Gestalt IT. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Quobyte Assigned Patent". StorageNewsletter. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Mellor, Chris (13 October 2020). "Lose the 36-year-old: Quobyte pushes folks to ditch NFS for its 'secure' scale-out, self-service, policy-driven software". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "Quobyte Offers TensorFlow Plug-In to Speed Machine Learning | Truth in IT: Enterprise Tech via Video". truthinit. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. ↑ Mellor, Chris (10 August 2020). "Quobyte storage software takes a bite at HPC and machine learning". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (13 October 2020). "It Takes Geological Patience To Change Datacenter Storage". The Next Platform. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "Checksums in Storage Systems and Why the Enterprise Should Care - DZone Performance". dzone.com. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "File system software startup Quobyte chases IT, developers". SearchStorage. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  12. ↑ Kovar, Joseph F. (13 October 2020). "Quobyte Goes Big On Security With New File System, Offers Free Edition". CRN. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  13. ↑ Hemsoth, Nicole (22 July 2021). "Getting Hadoop to Jump Through AI/ML Hoops". The Next Platform. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  14. ↑ Whiting, Rick (24 July 2019). "Emerging Storage Vendors To Know In 2019". CRN. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  15. ↑ Harris, Robin. "Quobyte's TensorFlow plug-in speeds machine learning". ZDNet. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  16. ↑ Mellor, Chris. "Linux kernel-bypassing Quobyte plug-in goes with the TensorFlow for faster file access". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 15 January 2022.

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