Google to run vast amounts of storage continuously, Quobyte scales to thousands of clients, servers, volumes, and tenants. Storage nodes can be added live, eliminating reconfiguration downtime, and client systems can immediately make use of the added resources.

Quobyte was founded in 2013 by former Google employees Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck. Both had already gathered more than seven years of experience in distributed and storage systems research at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), developing the parallel file system XtreemFS. After the additional experience in large-scale operations at Google, the two decided to rewrite XtreemFS and add enterprise storage features to the codebase. The result is Quobyte’s Data Center File System – fast and reliable software storage.