The Qumulo blog
Industry news and articles about hybrid cloud, data storage, and cloud computing.
Delivering Customer Success Versus Customer Support
By Alan Delgado Duran “Customer Success.” While this may sound like a fancy, new-age way to describe “customer support,” it encompasses a great deal more than traditional support! It is a new way of discovering what works well with customers, tearing down the barriers...
Video surveillance: How important is it today?
The last time you were out in a public place - whether it was a busy city street, a stadium, casino, airport, college campus or hospital - did you notice any video surveillance cameras? Even police officers are wearing body cameras, have you noticed them? Over the...
Qumulo’s core architecture is built with hardware flexibility in mind (Part one)
At Qumulo, we designed our file system to be hardware-agnostic. In our first year, we interviewed hundreds of file storage customers and one of the strongest themes to emerge was a desire to have the freedom to run file storage on the latest data center hardware, as...
Guest Post: Examining Data Migration with Atempo and Qumulo
by Ferhat Kaddour, Vice President of Sales and Alliances, Atempo Surprisingly, when purchasing and implementing new storage technology, the actual data migration phase is not always adequately thought through. This can, and often does, lead to issues and user...
Meet a New Qumulon! Darci Penney, Territory Account Manager
Qumulo has a ton of new faces in our halls lately! To help you get to know some of the new Qumulons, the Qumulo Blog has put together a Q&A-style interview series where we’ll be profiling new employees! Stop by and say hello when you have a moment, or reach out on...
The road to all-flash (Part 3)
By Daniel Pehush and Gunter Zink The Mission - Caution, bumps ahead Picking up from our previous blog post, with the performance squared away, the next important piece was selecting the vendor(s) for our storage devices. With most of the vendors we spoke with Qumulo...
A simpler, more reliable approach to high availability in the cloud
Public cloud infrastructure has transformed many aspects of IT strategy, but one thing remains constant: the vital importance of high availability (HA). When data is your business—as is the case for every business today—any loss can have dire consequences. You’ve got...
LEDs and storage performance
Today I’m going to talk about blinking red and green lights and how they led us on a lengthy performance investigation that ended deep inside the PCI Express drivers in the Linux kernel. (Also, if you haven’t already seen it, check out the second part of the Road to...
Using Lambda functions with Qumulo (Part 1)
Qumulo’s API opens up possibilities for making your file system work for you. In the public cloud, microservices make it easy to take advantage of the Qumulo API to integrate with other tools. These services are quick to deploy and easy to manage. This is the first...
Examining Qumulo’s read prefetch system and how it’s so effective
We recently kicked off the new fiscal year here at Qumulo. During the company kickoff, this chart was presented, showing the average read latency for Qumulo customers around the world for the last year. As you can see, NFS and SMB protocol read latencies are down...
Qumulo continues its momentum with new sales offices in Chicago and Amsterdam
We’re hearing our customers and prospects loud and clear: They want Qumulo’s hybrid cloud file storage! Last year we experienced accelerating momentum at Qumulo. We turned in record-breaking business results, including sales growth and new customer adoption. Our reach...
Visual effects rendering in the cloud with Qumulo
FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects studio whose expertise in visual effects spans episodic television, film, commercials, games and special venues. FuseFX employs about 300 people and has three studio locations. They have more than 60 television shows in...
Qumulo named a leader
Qumulo has been named a Leader on the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. Download your complimentary report today!