Our musings on all things software, storage, and beyond.
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Just like you, I don’t like the title of this post, but you the people have voted with your searches on Google. So let’s start with the commonalities: Both Ceph and Quobyte have their roots in academic research projects that started around the year 2006. Prior to starting Quobyte, Felix and I were members of […] READ MORE
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While Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have become the buzziest of buzz words over the past year or so, I was using Machine Learning for protein-folding prediction and drug design as a research student 15 years ago. Back then you needed a compute cluster or, better yet, a vector machine to train complex neural networks […] READ MORE
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This blog post is about data redundancy in distributed storage systems – how to do it the right way in order to properly protect your data, and which methods to avoid. We’ll also talk about the tradeoffs required when doing disaster recovery over long distances. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly would also have […] READ MORE
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Vulnerable farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have to contend with multiple threats to their livelihoods, but thanks to a collaboration between technology providers and one innovative NGO, their crops are now much safer. Using Earth Observation Technology to Ensure Better Crop Yields The international nonprofit CABI uses science and technology to solve some of the world’s […] READ MORE
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Quobyte software storage is now available in the Marketplace of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Quobyte’s hyperscaler-derived storage is the perfect choice for customers seeking to run scale-out production workloads such as EDA, HPC, AI, Machine Learning, etc. in the cloud. By running the exact same infrastructure on-prem or in the cloud, we make the […] READ MORE
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Quobyte is a complete file system and as such has tremendous capabilities and potential. Born out of High Performance Computing (HPC) by founders with PhDs in Distributed Systems technology and fault tolerance, it is truly a file system for the modern era. As commercial enterprises begin to realize that their workloads are HPC in nature, […] READ MORE
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Written by Matthias Grawinkel and Sebastian Bünker · While we’ve all seen our fair share of infrastructure technology to help us automate deployment, scaling, and management – from the classic VMware to open source tools such as OpenStack – there’s rarely been such a speedy and widespread adoption of one as with Kubernetes. And we […] READ MORE
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If you work for a vendor of enterprise IT infrastructure, one of the best moments of your day or even your week is when you’re speaking to a prospective customer’s team and suddenly — Aha! — they get it. They understand your product, service, solution; they understand how its engineering solves their problem or saves […] READ MORE
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Random bit flips are far more common than most people, even IT professionals, think. Surprisingly, the problem isn’t widely discussed, even though it is silently causing data corruption that can directly impact our jobs, our businesses, and our security. It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and […] READ MORE
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In this post I’ll show you how to combine Quobyte’s software storage and Apache Drill – a tool to query non-relational data stores (such as files) in parallel, using a SQL-like syntax. Both form a natural duo that allows you to speed up your number crunching significantly. Apache Drill enhances your productivity by enabling SQL-on-everything […] READ MORE