The Qumulo blog
A Day in the Life: Qumulo Demo Day
It’s 4 p.m. in Seattle on a Friday during a release week. The new release branch has been cut and handed off to the certification team. It’s time to take a look at what new goodness made it in! Engineers and curious team members gather in the cafe, with snacks and...
Proud to be named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
We’re thrilled to share that Gartner has named Qumulo a leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report! As a leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner provides insight that helps IT and business...
Qumulo breathes new life into nearline data for HPE customers
Businesses today are defined by their data. But much of their historical data gets “stuck” as unstructured, cold, and otherwise hard-to-access archival, or nearline, data files. Breathing new life into historical data by keeping it online and accessible brings new...
How we test our React/Redux UI, and why it helps us move fast
[Author's note: This blog post accompanies the Seattle React.js Meetup we hosted on September 19, 2018, watch the recording] At Qumulo, we build a scale-out distributed file system, and building such a system, as it turns out, is hard. We have layers upon...
Psychological safety is the secret sauce to great innovation
Since the inception of Qumulo, we’ve understood teams are most innovative when they feel psychologically safe. Safe enough to take appropriate risks, to try new things, to learn from them quickly, and to produce a product that is both novel in approach and safe for...
Performance Series: SAN Speed, NAS Simplicity
It’s an all-too-common question for IT professionals: How can they get both speed and simplicity from their storage? Until recently, for the most demanding workloads like uncompressed 4K video playback, they’ve had to make a choice: An extremely fast...
Onboarding at Qumulo: Getting Immersed in a Collaborative Culture
Before joining Qumulo eight months ago, I thought I had left behind the creativity and collaborative culture of my college days. At Harvey Mudd College (class of ‘15), I learned and collaborated with a stunningly intelligent and motivated cohort inside and outside of...
At Qumulo, it’s not just another software engineering internship
The Qumulo engineering internship is unique for a lot of reasons. You get to help build a highly scalable, distributed file system. You get to ship code to actual customers every two weeks. There’s a ton that can be said about the groundbreaking technology we’re...
Qumulo Engineering: Preparing our Software for the AWS Marketplace
Qumulo challenges employees in GrumpHunt 2018
Everyone knows Qumulo has a culture of problem-solving, but a challenge last week forced Qumulons to dig way beyond their coding skills. Last Thursday's inaugural GrumpHunt - named after the Qumulo Grumpquat mascot - tested employees from across the...
Gregg Machon joins Qumulo as VP, Worldwide Channel Sales
I’m absolutely thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to join the Qumulo family as Vice President of Worldwide Channels. For those yet to be familiar with my new employer, don’t worry, we’ll get you up to speed. Qumulo is one of the world’s most innovative...
5 good engineering practices that lead to great UI at Qumulo
Before I came to Qumulo, I had gotten so jaded as a software engineer working on UI at other companies, that I gave up on good engineering practices. I felt like Code Monkey for much of my career, working hard on meeting deadlines and building, leaving no time for...
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!