Quobyte at German Cloud Services Provider SysEleven

Quobyte, Inc. announced their partnership with SysEleven GmbH.

After rolling out the version 1.2 of Quobyte’s software storage system on the SysEleven Stack, a customized OpenStack infrastructure, the service provider was seeing an increase in productivity and storage efficiency.

“Our IO/s performance improved. Right away it was more than 5 times better than that of other storage systems we tested. But what’s even more, we’re running business-critical workloads on our SysEleven Stack and that is thanks in no small part to Quobyte and its improved compatibility with OpenStack,” said Marc Korthaus, SysEleven’s CEO. “I think the new version puts Quobyte squarely in the lead in creating a proper storage infrastructure for the software-defined data center.“

A software-defined storage solution, Quobyte offers simplified management of large-scale data repositories and is the first software-only scale-out storage to provide complete fault tolerance and split-brain safety. As a POSIX-compatible file system, it runs any application and any workload while safeguarding data and freeing it from the restrictions of local hardware storage.

The 1.2 release builds the capstone to Quobyte’s OpenStack integration. It gets the block and object storage capabilities ready for production in even the most business-critical deployments and thus provides the technology for future-ready enterprise storage infrastructures. Quobyte is not just a patch grafted onto OpenStack, but thoroughly integrated into the whole OpenStack ecosystem. It thus allows for block IO performance which is combined with – thanks to years of research – a fault tolerance that holds up under network failures.

Quobyte’s software storage system does not stop short of block storage, but offers the complete package: it ships with an S3-compatible object storage interface and also serves the shared storage needs of enterprises.

SysEleven and other service providers benefit especially from its multi-tenancy support. The NFS interface is integrated with Manila and allows for self-service provisioning of the shared file storage. Closing the list is Quobyte’s management console and API which can be hooked up to OpenStack Keystone to build a fully integrated infrastructure.

Quobyte is part of OpenStack since the Kilo release. Backports for earlier releases Icehouse and Juno are also available.

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