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Qumulo’s Recruiting Team Hits the Road to Find Engineering Talent at Leading Universities: Tips for Success
What a busy time of the year it has been in Qumulo’s recruiting department! Over the last two months, our recruiting and engineering teams have been visiting some of the top colleges and universities in the country in order to meet and recruit the next generation of...
Qumulo Distributed File Storage: Purpose-Built to Meet the Demands of High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments
The High Performance Computing market is perhaps the fastest growth sector in the IT world today. Hyperion Research forecasts the total HPC market to reach $44B by 2023, with storage-related investments accounting for $7.8B of that. Three key points from Hyperion’s...
Qumulo is Recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader…Again!
Enterprises around the world look to Gartner for unbiased advice to inform their buying decisions. Today, Gartner published its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. In this report, Qumulo was named as a Leader for the second year in a...
Why Go All-Flash When You Can Go All-NVMe?
Why go All-Flash file storage when you can go All-NVMe file storage? You might be asking yourself, aren’t these the same thing? While they both use solid-state storage (SSDs), they are, indeed, not the same thing. Let's go back in time a bit. Historically the storage...
Qumulo for State and Local Government: Flexible File Storage for Today’s Evolving Video Surveillance Technologies
State and local governments have been among the leading proponents of video surveillance technology, which is used to detect and prevent crime, and support public safety operations in many public areas, including city streets and centers, transportation hubs, and...
As Companies Scale and Mature, the Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback Becomes Critical
When I wrote about why feedback matters back in January of 2018, we were continuing a journey that the engineering team at Qumulo had started and improved on over the years. Now we’re taking the entire company on this journey. As a company like ours grows from a baby...
Qumulo Provides Superior High Availability for Video Surveillance: Never Lose Storage Access, Never Lose a Frame
Twenty years ago, video surveillance systems had challenges with reliability. Video content was unavailable or the resolution was too low to accurately identify a person of interest in far too many cases. Today, video cameras record and capture video footage in high...
The Top Five Pitfalls Businesses Make When Considering Cloud Storage – And How to Avoid Them
By Muzamil Ahmad The business and technology world we work in now is far different than that of yesterday. We have to do more - way more - with less, while also working faster to outpace the competition. Nearly all industries are constantly being challenged by...
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 NVMe 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...
Qumulo named a leader, again
Qumulo has been named a Leader on the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.