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Keep IT running – Quobyte at the 5x5km Relay Race in Berlin

By  Sebastian Bünker  on  

For a second time, the Quobyte team participated in the Berliner Wasserbetriebe 5x5km team relay race through Berlin’s Tiergarten. Last year’s debut turned out to be quite the success among team members – which you can tell by the fact that the running virus spread and resulted in a second team joining the fun. While […] READ MORE

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The State of Secure Storage Access in Container Infrastructures

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

A Not So Minor Gap Container technology has made phenomenal progress and is getting ready to take over application infrastructures in public and in private clouds. Storage access is an important part of the container technology stack and most container orchestration systems are able to routinely provision access to storage systems as part of their […] READ MORE

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Fencing off Zombie Containers with Quobyte’s Implicit Locking

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

Fault-Tolerant Container Infrastructures – The Essentials Let’s say you wanted to build a reliable and efficient container-based infrastructure like Google’s. The best way to go is to turn your Linux servers into one fault-tolerant software-based machine. Your first ingredient is a container scheduler like Mesos or Kubernetes. It starts containers and keeps them running – thereby breaking […] READ MORE

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A Visual History of OpenStack

By  Sebastian Bünker  on  

The holidays are almost here and the year’s end is closing in fast. Time to reflect and review past events over a coffee with your colleagues. To us at Quobyte one event stood out in particular: the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Our data center file system was extremely well received and we got the impression that […] READ MORE

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What’s Erasure Coding and When to use it in Production

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

When I talk to people about erasure coding, I often feel that, even though they have it on their radar, they are often uncertain about what exactly it is and how it works. Some topics in distributed storage are quite complicated and require thorough studying in order to understand them (like Paxos). Erasure coding isn’t […] READ MORE

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Announcing Quobyte 1.3 – Parallel File System with Erasure Coding

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

The first week of August not only marks Quobyte’s third birthday, but also the release of Quobyte 1.3. With more than 6 months of engineering to back it up, the updated version contains countless improvements and exciting new features. They make Quobyte a Google-style storage infrastructure for the large variety of real-world workloads. Shiny New […] READ MORE

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On Working at Quobyte

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This post was written by our intern Austin Wu. He first posted it over at his blog and was kind enough to let us crosspost it here. The pictures are also his.   Working at Quobyte was great. I was able to work on a sophisticated software project, and I learned so much about the […] READ MORE

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Mesosphere DC/OS Now Open Source!

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

Containers promise to be the next big thing for enterprise infrastructure. Apache Mesos is probably the most ambitious project in this area: it not only tries to solve the problem of scheduling containers on a cluster of machines, but aims to do so in a fully fault-tolerant, scalable and modular way. With Mesosphere DC/OS there […] READ MORE

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Quobyte Storage System 1.2 Now Available – Storage Infrastructure for OpenStack

By  Felix Hupfeld  on  

At Quobyte we set out to make general software-based storage infrastructures available for everyone and eliminate the inflexible storage appliance silos that dominate today’s enterprise storage. Our first target is the technology that is omnipresent in enterprise IT: virtual machine infrastructures. Driven by Amazon’s example, this technology is seeing a refresh in recent years towards […] READ MORE