Case Study: Yahoo! JAPAN achieves scalable, lower-cost storage with Quobyte

Yahoo!JAPAN reduces storage complexity and drives down operational costs with Quobyte

Yahoo! JAPAN, one of the world’s largest internet companies, needed a better way to manage rapidly growing storage demands across its massive private cloud environment while keeping operational and acquisition costs under control. To support its shift toward becoming a data company, it looked for a scalable, fault-tolerant storage foundation for OpenStack and Kubernetes, and turned to Quobyte’s software-defined Data Center File System for file storage and unified storage services.

Quobyte implemented a unified storage platform for Yahoo! JAPAN that serves as backend storage for OpenStack components such as Cinder and Manila, while also supporting S3 access through its proxy service. The solution let Yahoo! JAPAN use all-flash commodity hardware for high performance, simplify operations across multiple clusters, and improve scalability and fault tolerance; benchmark testing on 18 storage nodes and 70 compute nodes showed Quobyte outperformed the company’s legacy storage system.

Yahoo! Japan

Yasuke Sato

Infrastructure Engineer