Company:Quobyte
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Software-Defined Storage
Distributed File Systems Computer Data Storage Computer Software |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California |
| Products | Quobyte 3.0 |
| Website | https://www.quobyte.com/ |
Quobyte, Inc. is a software-defined storage[1] company[2] founded by former Alphabet Inc. engineers Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck.[citation needed] Launched in 2013, it is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with operations in two other locations.[citation needed]
History
Quobyte has its roots in an academic research project called XtreemFS, a distributed parallel file system for wide area networks. While working on their PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin, Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck, were members of the research team that built XtreemFS. Funded by the European Commission’s IST Programme, the team was investigating how to do fault-tolerance across machines while preserving POSIX semantics. Felix and Bjorn went on to work for Google, where they realized that to operate at large scale, simplicity is a key. In 2013 combining this realization with concepts they researched during the XtreemFS project they built a software-based storage solution, Quobyte; which soon gained industry recognition[3][4][5].
The Quobyte File System
Quobyte is a parallel distributed file system built on a shared-nothing architecture[6]. The file system runs on commodity x86 servers and uses synchronous data replication and erasure coding to achieve fault-tolerance[7] in software across machines. Its architecture makes it particularly suitable to the needs of modern high-performance computing applications[8].
Funding
Quobyte is backed by four different investors, the most recent are Samsung Catalyst Fund and ALSTIN Capital.
References
- ↑ Storage Networking industry Association, (SNIA). "Technical Whitepaper: Software Defined Storage". https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA%20Software%20Defined%20Storage%20White%20Paper-%20v1.0k-DRAFT.pdf.
- ↑ Pelletier, Francis. "Quobyte Assigned Patent". https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2020/01/16/quobyte-assigned-patent/.
- ↑ Miller, James Alan; Martin, Nick; Peterson, Stacey; Crocetti, Paul; Sullivan, Erin. "Enterprise data storage 2019 Products of the Year finalists". https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Enterprise-data-storage-2019-Products-of-the-Year-finalists.
- ↑ Kovar, Joseph F.. "Quobyte Goes Big On Security With New File System, Offers Free Edition". https://www.crn.com/news/storage/quobyte-goes-big-on-security-with-new-file-system-offers-free-edition.
- ↑ Hemsoth, Nicole. "Getting Hadoop to Jump Through ML/AI Hoops". https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/22/getting-hadoop-to-jump-through-ai-ml-hoops/.
- ↑ Farooqi, Saad. "How Quobyte Uses Software to Add Lanes to the Data Highway". https://www.engineering.com/story/how-quobyte-uses-software-to-add-lanes-to-the-data-highway?postID=220118.
- ↑ Harris, Robin. "Quobyte's TensorFlow plug-in speeds machine learning". https://www.zdnet.com/article/quobytes-tensorflow-plug-in-speeds-machine-learning/.
- ↑ Mellor, Chris. "Quobyte storage software takes a bite at HPC and machine learning". https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/08/10/quobyte-hpc-storage-softwre/.
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