The Qumulo blog
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
Preparing to list a paid version of our Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) software in the AWS Marketplace means our cloud engineering team had to solve some unique challenges. This blog post is the first in a series where we discuss some of those challenges and show how we...
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...
Migrating to the Cloud
The public cloud is awesome. Cloud-native companies and enterprises are able to adapt and build new features faster than ever before. Now, if you are sitting in an enterprise, having just been handed a mandate to “move to the cloud by 20XX,” you might be starting to...
Creating Your Own Career Path at a Startup
Advancement opportunities are usually available in whatever career path you take. But startups like Qumulo offer something the big guys can’t — the opportunity to carve your own path. Here’s my story of how being “hungry” pays off in a startup culture like Qumulo. A...
Qumulo is now available on Dell hardware
Today, Qumulo announced we are partnering with Dell EMC, giving our customers even more options for storing and managing their data. This is an exciting announcement because it supports our philosophy that customers need choice and flexibility in managing data,...
Why I’m excited about Qumulo and Rust
As a startup, Qumulo gives its engineers a lot of influence in deciding how we do things. And since joining as an intern five years ago, I’ve gotten to be involved in many of the important decisions Engineering has made. So Qumulo’s decision to start using the Rust...