The Qumulo blog
Insights and perspective on hybrid cloud file storage innovations, Qumulo news, and company culture
A Storage Nightmare: The “Small File” Taxman Comes Knocking!
By Paula Dallabetta It was a dark and stormy night. The phone rings. It’s the office. Your heart drops with surprise and horror. Your systems are entirely out of storage… This is a nightmare scenario for many storage system administrators. You do everything you can to...
Writing Procedural Macros in Rust
Qumulo’s software has been written entirely in C for a while. In recent years we’ve been flirting with Rust and the many benefits it has to offer - I’ve written about this previously here. Recently we’ve been working on writing our own LDAP client, and part of that...
Three New Platforms Bring the Power of Flash to Enterprise File Storage
We recently launched three new configurations that take advantage of the highest capacity SSDs and HDDs on the market. For Qumulo’s customers, this means more storage capacity for your budget. And with Qumulo’s intelligent and predictive Flash cache, more performance...
Qumulo Provides a Window into Storage with Modern File Storage Analytics
Wherever you go today there is a good chance that someone is watching you - cameras are everywhere! If you haven’t noticed that, it’s probably because you have become so accustomed to seeing them that they just blend right into the scenery, but they have become a part...
Meet a new Qumulon! Berat Ulualan, Systems Engineer
By Berat Ulualan Q: Where are you based? A: Istanbul, Turkey Q: How did you find out about Qumulo? A: My colleague Filiz Turkoglu and I had worked together previously at Dell EMC in different business units, and always joked about how well we worked together. After...
Can I Really Use 100 Percent of My Storage? With Qumulo, the Answer is Yes!
By Paula Dallabetta When Qumulo tells you the usable capacity of our storage system, we mean exactly that: this is the capacity you can use to store files, regardless of file size and without adversely affecting performance. It seems straightforward, yet this is a...
Qumulo Brings Hybrid Cloud File Storage to HPE Discover More Tel Aviv
By Filiz Turkoglu For the very first time, Qumulo will be participating in HPE Discover More Tel Aviv - we’re so excited to join more than 800 HPE customers and partners in Israel, and speak with them about our hybrid cloud file storage solutions! One of the best...
Manage Your Data, Not Your Storage – Surviving Today’s Machine Data Onslaught
By David Bailey We’re going to talk today about the machine data multiplier, or the third age of data. But first, a history lesson in the explosion of enterprise data over the past few decades. The early days: Mid-to-late 1990s When you think about storage systems and...
Why Studios are Moving Digital Content Creation to AWS
Earlier this month AWS Thinkbox announced the relaunch of its partner portal. AWS Thinkbox has developed an ecosystem of partners to accelerate the journey for media and entertainment studios “to a hybrid, or full content production pipeline in the cloud.” In that...
Heading to HPE Discover? Q&A with Qumulo’s Gregg Machon
Next week the Qumulo team will be hitting the road and heading to Las Vegas for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Discover 2019. This is HPE’s largest customer and partner event of the year, and I couldn’t be more excited to hit the show floor. Since day one, Qumulo...
Addressing the complexity of mixed-protocol workflows with Cross Protocol Permissions
By Jacqueline Kong One of the challenges that Qumulo tries to solve around mixed-protocol workflows where users access the same files over both NFS and SMB protocols is how to handle file permissions. POSIX users accessing their files over NFS expect a different set...
Tips for making it work remotely
Recently at home, I needed a contractor to fix something in my house I didn’t have the talent to attempt on my own. When the guy came to do the work, he realized I worked from home and started asking me all sorts of questions about what kind of work I did, where my...
Qumulo named a leader
Qumulo has been named a Leader on the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.