The Qumulo blog
Industry news and articles about hybrid cloud, data storage, and cloud computing.
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...
Eight common storage pains and ways to resolve them
Many of you have seen a universal pain scale chart in a hospital or an emergency room. This graphic helps medical professionals assess the severity of their patients’ pain so they can guide their treatment and allocate resources appropriately. In a couple of my...
Qumulo’s continuous replication: Efficiently identifying changes between snapshots
By Henry Precheur and Kevin Jamieson Qumulo’s continuous replication ensures that an up-to-date copy of a cluster’s data is mirrored to an off-site Qumulo cluster or to the cloud. This allows our customers to sleep soundly at night knowing that they can quickly...
Using lambda functions with Qumulo (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, we packaged up python bindings for the Qumulo API and uploaded them to AWS Lambda as a layer. Now, let's use this layer! Let's make a lambda function to rotate the admin password of the cluster. We'll use AWS Secrets Manager, a...
A glimpse into the hardware team of a software company
Unlike everything in the software stack, hardware is a black box – the front door interface is the only thing that a user can observe. In some ways, this is a good thing. In software, testing can often present a challenge due to our knowledge of the implementation. In...
How Qumulo helps organizations with demanding in-house corporate video production
The modern corporate workplace has become significantly more dispersed over the last few decades, as enterprises now often have multiple office locations across multiple states, or countries. In addition, remote workers and telework initiatives are much more...
Why legacy vendors want to “never lose to Qumulo”
I just learned that one of our major competitors (a large legacy seller of servers, storage and laptops) has internally launched a “never lose to Qumulo” program. Here’s what that means and why I’m delighted about it. You’ve probably never heard of a “never lose to”...
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 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!