Company Profile: Quobyte

Location
HQs Santa Clara, CA, subsidiary or R&D in Berlin, Germany

Date founded
2013

Financial funding:
Seed and series A from Samsung, Target Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and Alstin (Alternative Strategic Investments); seven-figure Euro financing in 2014.

Revenue
Owler.com estimates annual revenue at $67 million. Private company Quobyte announced 150% sales growth for from 4Q17 to 1Q18

Founders
Björn Kolbeck, co-founder and CEO: spent time at Google working as tech lead for the hotel finder project (2011-2013), was the lead developer for the open-source file system XtreemFS (2006-2011). His PhD thesis dealt with fault-tolerant replication.

Felix Hupfeld, co-founder and CTO: worked as a tech lead and capacity planner in Google‘s infrastructure team (2009-2013). He was the architect and project manager for XtreemFS (2006-2009). his PhD was on distributed storage.

Number of employees
31

Technology
Distributed file systems

Product Name
Data Center File System

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Product description:
Designed in the post web-scale era, the Quobyte Data Center File System is a software that turns commodity servers into a unified, high performance, scalable software storage system. It leverages hyperscale parallel distributed file system technology to unify file, block, and object storage. Simple to use, it allows companies to scale storage capacity and performance linearly and obtain the operational efficiency of reduced manpower, money and time spent on storage management.

Release date
Data Center File System 2.0 in November 2017

Price
Plans start at 200TB for 15 cents per gigabyte for the complete software solution including support.

Roadmap
Adding technology that provides as much automation as possible and more performance optimization for high speed networking, retention policies and encryption.

Partners

Technology partners: Galactic Fog, Google Cloud, FastLTA, Grau Data, Mellanox, Mesosphere, Openstack, Rancher, RedHat, Solarflare, Ubuntu
VAR and cloud service providers: Alces Softwware, Bios IT, Bodega, Boston, concat AG, DST, e-shelter, Escape Technology, eurotech, Galactic Fog, Hamburgnet, Infront, Inovex, Itiso, NEC, Newnet, Rauschnetzwerktechnik, XMA

Main customers
Airbus, STFC, HLRS, Points; several customers have been deployed in production for 2+ years. Others have grown their Quobyte footprint by more than 20X.

Target market
Distributed file system storage. Vertical markets include HPC, financial services, media and entertainment, life sciences, containers, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Competitors
Include Dell EMC Isilon, GPFS and Lustre