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Container management standard was designed for scale-out applications, so storage systems must scale-out too. Kubernetes, the popular container management system, offers enterprises many benefits: agility, scalability, faster development, and management. Consequently, open-source orchestration software has quickly been gaining traction. One ripple effect is many enterprise storage systems are struggling to keep pace with their […] READ MORE
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UPDATE (February 2021): We migrated the demo to our new 3.0 release. Being developers and sysadmins ourselves, we like software that we can just test quickly in a container. That’s why we decided to bring you a single container demo of Quobyte. This demo will start a container with all Quobyte services and the Quobyte […] READ MORE
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It has been some time since our first blog post on Quobyte and Kubernetes (Quobernetes) and this year marks the fifth anniversary of our Kubernetes support. Our new Quobyte Free Edition comes with full Kubernetes support, so it’s time for new tutorials how to take full advantage of Quobyte persistent volumes: A step-by-step guide on how […] READ MORE
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One of the big challenges for storage admins is the mix of millions (billions?) of small files and large files in the same file system. Small files need to be treated differently than large files, e.g. you want them on flash for high performance. On the other hand, large files are great for HDDs to […] READ MORE
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In a fireside chat with Joe Chapman, IT Manager at 3vGeomatics, Quobyte’s CEO and Co-founder Bjorn Kolbeck discussed how 3vGeomatics, an InSAR company is helping to solve complex problems. Following is a brief summary of the conversation: 3vGeomatics’ goal is to make InSAR contribute to all assets, life, and environmental protection. With the advent of […] READ MORE
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We recently announced the availability of our latest Quobyte release, version 3.0, which comes with tons of new features. This blog will provide a quick overview of the new features. There will be more blog posts about individual new features in the coming weeks, so watch this space. At Quobyte, we have a different way […] READ MORE
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It’s no secret that I don’t like the NFS protocol – it’s dated and is the root cause for the inability of many file storage products to scale. NFS has clearly failed at meeting the scale needs of users and applications, and in enabling appropriate data safety to address security, compliance, and availability. It’s also worth pointing out that […] READ MORE
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We’re happy to announce, in collaboration with Oracle, the availability of an automatic deployment of Quobyte on Oracle Cloud. It’s based on terraform and can easily be adapted and integrated into your overall cluster deployment. The fast networking with 100G ethernet and availability of bare metal machines make Oracle Cloud particularly useful for some of […] READ MORE
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We are pleased to announce our cooperation with MPICH and the release of our Quobyte I/O backend driver on the main branch of MPICH, available publicly today. This driver uses the user space Quobyte library, libquobyte, to communicate directly with the Quobyte filesystem, allowing MPICH-built MPI programs to circumvent the native system I/O operations. Bypassing […] READ MORE
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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