Quobyte Inc.
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| Industry | Software-Defined Storage
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| Founded 📆 | 2013 |
| Founders 👔 | Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck |
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| Products 📟 | Quobyte 3.0 |
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| 🌐 Website | https://www.quobyte.com/ |
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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 is a software-based storage solution that was conceptualized and created by Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck, alumni of Humboldt University of Berlin. Their initial work on Quobyte can be traced back to their contributions to an academic research initiative called XtreemFS, a distributed parallel file system designed for wide area networks. As PhD students at the Humboldt University, they played significant roles in the XtreemFS project, which was primarily financed by the European Commission’s IST Programme.
The XtreemFS project sought to explore methods of maintaining fault-tolerance across machines while upholding POSIX semantics. Post their academic pursuits, Hupfeld and Kolbeck served at Google, where they encountered the operational demands of large-scale systems. They recognized the fundamental importance of simplicity for managing such extensive infrastructures.
In 2013, drawing on their experiences and the principles they had explored during the XtreemFS project, they launched Quobyte. This innovative storage solution, which synthesizes their findings about system simplicity and large-scale operations, quickly garnered attention and recognition within the industry[3][4][5].
The Quobyte File System
Quobyte is a parallel distributed file system that operates based on a shared-nothing architecture[6]. Its operational framework relies primarily on commodity x86 servers, implementing synchronous data replication and erasure coding to ensure software fault tolerance[7] across various machines. This unique architecture design positions Quobyte favorably to cater to the demands of contemporary high-performance computing applications[8]
Funding
Quobyte is backed by four different investors, the most recently Samsung Catalyst Fund and ALSTIN Capital.
References
- ↑ Storage Networking Industry Association, (SNIA). "Technical Whitepaper: Software Defined Storage" (PDF).
- ↑ Pelletier, Francis (16 January 2020). "Quobyte Assigned Patent". Storage Newsletter. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
- ↑ Miller, James Alan; Martin, Nick; Peterson, Stacey; Crocetti, Paul; Sullivan, Erin. "Enterprise data storage 2019 Products of the Year finalists". TechTarget. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ↑ Kovar, Joseph F. (13 October 2020). "Quobyte Goes Big On Security With New File System, Offers Free Edition". CRN. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
- ↑ Hemsoth, Nicole (22 July 2021). "Getting Hadoop to Jump Through ML/AI Hoops". The Next Platform. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
- ↑ Farooqi, Saad. "How Quobyte Uses Software to Add Lanes to the Data Highway". Engineering.com. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
- ↑ Harris, Robin. "Quobyte's TensorFlow plug-in speeds machine learning". ZDNet. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ↑ Mellor, Chris (10 August 2020). "Quobyte storage software takes a bite at HPC and machine learning". Blocks & Files. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
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