We recently wrote about Hadoop’s HDFS and how it was once mighty and instrumental in big data, but today the file system’s flaws leave it buckling under modern analytics and AI workloads. Anyone working in those spaces needs to be aware of these disadvantages. But what about the rest of…

With container acceptance rapidly growing, Kubernetes (k8s) became a very important and popular tool to automatically manage containerized workloads and services. Some of the reasons Kubernetes has become so popular is because it provides great benefits such as container orchestration, automation, portability, availability, and much more. …

Quobyte Core Services These services run on worker nodes with local drives (nvme, HDD…) and implement the actual Quobyte file system. We recommend running these services on a pool of dedicated worker nodes to avoid the negative impact of other workloads on the file system performance. …

New and enhanced technologies like cryo-EM/ET, automated genome sequencers and higher resolution cameras have heavily impacted many areas of life sciences. These have contributed dramatically to accelerate research and lower costs in fields such as structural biology, genomics, drug discovery, etc. …

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) enables researchers to study proteins and biomolecules at atomic resolution. With recent advancements in technology, cryo-EM is breaking barriers that imaging techniques such as x-ray crystallography could not. Cryo-EM has had such an impact that Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson were awarded the 2017…

Imagine if scientists could take a look at people’s DNA and figure out if they were prone to a major disease. Or if doctors could take a look at a patient’s DNA and based on that, give them better medication for their diseases. Nowadays, this is possible with technologies such…

Software-defined storage can mean something completely different, depending on who (or better which vendor) you ask. For us at Quobyte it’s simple. To get all the benefits of software for your storage, you need real software storage: An entire storage system in software that runs on standard off-the-shelf servers. …

The cloud has changed the user’s expectations for enterprise storage: Today, users expect instant provisioning of new storage, “unlimited” scalability, 24/7 uptime, and storage that can handle a wide variety of workloads — from traditional databases to massive scale-out workloads like machine learning or big data analytics. Enterprise storage systems…

From the Quobyte side, installing the Quobyte client is just a matter of downloading the client, installing it, and running a simple line of code in a Terminal window. However, if you are using MacOS Monterey, especially if you have a Mac with an Apple M1 chip, you will need…