Listening to Qumulo a company who is figuring out how to fix the data growth for customers while managing issues that may not be the normal issues exploding data growth within the customer environment.
Great use case of the pricelessness of Data “Within this data is the cure for cancer, but how do we ensure that durability of data long enough to find it?!”
Qumulo is built remove barriers for customers rather than directly fix a problem that creates others. The goal behind Qumulo is to be everywhere (In hyperscalers and on-premises) be able to move data everywhere, run with customized low usage solution thus cloud native, finally the network is a key component to migrating data and motioning the data, so qumulo is working to fix the required sharing of data by building the engineering required to radically change how we use data.
Qumulo is wildly expansive on the capabilities they are building, but also in how they are attacking the problems the customers have. This starts at the confusion of multiple platforms into how the data is replicated, stored, secured, and more.
Qumulo Nexus combines all the individual storage solutions across on-premises and in the cloud. Allowing customers to utilize a single solution that helps them solve issues from multiple endpoints.
Qumulo looked at how the cloud is used for the majority of data use cases. The reality is most users just threw data into an S3, or an Azure blob which is an object storage and not a solution for file storage that would be used for AI and other solutions. Qumulo then worked with hyperscalers engineers to build a solution on the object storage (S3/Azure Blob) and figured out how to integrate multiple buckets and utilize a solution to stripe each buck as if it was a spinning disk in a datacenter dramatically improving performance without having to 10x the cost.
We were able to see the deployment of CNQ with Terraform and it was really cool to see what was possible with their IaC code in order to get it up and running. Smaller shops will run automation between production hours and off-time to bring up and down the storage infrastructure to reduce cost.
Conclusion
Qumulo had a great presentation at CFD21 which really focused on changing difficult solutions into something easy, durable, and usable for customers who are trying to solve the problem of their file storage across multiple different levels. Qumulo is even looking at how far they can take the solution to solve GDPR compliance and “no-cloud” customers to allow the data to be processed in the cloud, but not stored in the cloud. Its great to see a vendor locked into the customers issues and dramatically challenging how things work in order to help solve major problems that customers are being challenged with continuously.
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