Take any data to any workflow, at any location
Qumulo Accelerators let you project massive datasets from where they live (on-premises, in a particular cloud or region) to where they’re needed, literally in minutes and without any costly, complex, or time-consuming data duplication or migration required.
Qumulo Accelerators
Qumulo Accelerators extend the Qumulo Cloud Data Platform to any edge or cloud location, enabling real-time data creation and collaboration from branch offices, rugged environments, and remote teams. These software-defined appliances, powered by NeuralCache for intelligent reads and low-latency writes, deliver fast, consistent access to core, cloud, and edge data. Whether boosting performance at remote sites with Edge Accelerator or enabling multi-cloud, real-time collaboration with Cloud Accelerator, Qumulo Accelerators simplify management, speed innovation, and deliver a scalable, future-ready data solution anywhere you need it.
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Qumulo Edge Accelerator - Do Anything From Anywhere
Fast, secure access to your data from the edge.
Qumulo Edge Accelerator combines with Cloud Data Fabric to enable secure, low-latency access to all your important file data – whether it’s on-premises or in the cloud – from a lightweight VM or a portable physical appliance.
Create
Edge Accelerator and Cloud Data Fabric together enable a portal that allows you to create files locally that can be viewed, accessed, and modified in real time by coworkers from anywhere.
Collaborate
Strict consistency is enforced on all data at all times, ensuring that geographically dispersed users and apps can easily collaborate on shared data in real time without waiting for data replication or resolving version conflicts across sites.
Modify
With Cloud Data Fabric’s unique caching architecture, any changes made to your data are committed locally, so your writes won’t have to wait for acknowledgement from a distant target. Even data that hasn’t yet propagated back to the primary cluster is immediately available to all sites to view and use.
Ingest
Whether you have terabytes of raw video footage, thousands of geospatial image files, or any other bulk dataset, Edge Accelerator does more than just ingest your data at line speed: it also makes that data visible and available for immediate use by applications and teams throughout your organization.
Even At The Edge
Low Latency Writes
Not only are all writes committed locally, but any new or changed data is immediately visible and accessible to users and apps throughout the enterprise.
Intelligent Reads
Powered by Qumulo’s adaptive NeuralCache engine, your Edge Accelerator device anticipates the data you’ll need next and prefetches it to local storage to be ready when you are.
Strict Data Consistency
Any changes written to an Edge Accelerator appliance are propagated throughout your organization in real time, ensuring that all users everywhere are seeing and interacting with the most recent version of your data.
Efficient Storage
Eliminates the data duplication, idle replication, and wasted costs that can plague edge, cloud, and core hybrid architectures.
Simple and Flexible
Deployed on your choice of lightweight hardware, like Cisco Unified Edge, or as a virtual appliance on your choice of hypervisor, Qumulo Edge Accelerator enables remote users and applications to get online and become productive within minutes from virtually anywhere.
Small Office/Home Office
Whether deployed on NUC-grade hardware or as a single virtual appliance, Edge Accelerator simplifies remote work by enabling local access to core or cloud-based datasets, so work-from-home users and satellite offices can quickly see, access, and modify data, even at petabyte scale, from a shared namespace that spans your entire organization.
On The Road
Whether you need to edit files from home, sift through petabytes of forensic data from a hotel room, or upload a bulk dataset from a remote film shoot, Edge Accelerator can be deployed on a lightweight device that you can take with you when you travel.
Outposts
Edge Accelerator is simple enough to configure and manage that you can even deploy it in fully autonomous facilities – e.g., weather stations, seismic stations, remote surveillance outposts – where fast writes are required and collected data must be organized and analyzed quickly.
Qumulo Cloud Accelerator - Optimize Your Cloud Usage
Fast, secure access to your data in the cloud without replication.
Qumulo Cloud Accelerator combines with Cloud Data Fabric to enable secure, low-latency access to all your on-premises file data in the cloud. You can also use it for cloud cross-region or cloud-to-cloud access to enable “resource hunting” when needed.
Create
Cloud Accelerator and Cloud Data Fabric together enable a portal that allows you to create files in the cloud or on-premises and express them for collaboration on-premises, at the edge, or in another cloud.
Collaborate
Strict consistency for all data in all locations ensures that geographically dispersed users and apps can easily collaborate on shared data in real-time without waiting for data replication or reconciling version conflicts between sites.
Modify
With Cloud Data Fabric’s unique caching architecture, any changes made to your data are committed to local cache, so your writes won’t have to wait for acknowledgement from the primary cluster. Even data that hasn’t yet propagated back from the cloud to the primary cluster is immediately available to all sites to view and access.
Burst
If you need additional infrastructure on demand or access to cloud services temporarily, whether you have terabytes of edge sensor data, raw video footage, thousands of geospatial image files, or any other bulk dataset, Cloud Accelerator makes that data visible and immediately available to applications, services, and teams in the cloud.
Hunt
Use Qumulo Cloud Accelerator to quickly access compute resources (e.g. GPUs or high-end cloud compute instances) when there is limited availability or when there is a significant discrepancy in pricing across different regions and cloud platforms. With quick setup and no need to migrate data, new workflows can be fully operationalized in minutes, empowering you to respond quickly to changing conditions.
Optimized For Any Workflow
Cloud Accelerator can be deployed for virtually any workflow and may be suitably renamed to indicate a particular workload optimization. For example, Qumulo Cloud AI Accelerator provides access to all your data for AI jobs in the cloud, or Qumulo Cloud Render Accelerator enables burst rendering in the cloud for Media & Entertainment workflows.
Burst To The Cloud
Intelligent Reads
Powered by Qumulo’s adaptive NeuralCache engine, your Cloud Accelerator anticipates the data you’ll need next in the cloud and prefetches it to cloud cache storage to be ready when your cloud services are.
Low-Latency Writes
Not only are all writes committed locally, but any new or changed data is immediately visible and accessible to apps throughout the cloud, edge, and other on-premises users.
Strict Data Consistency
Instantly express data via Cloud Data Fabric from on-premises into the cloud, across cross-cloud regions, or between clouds with the Qumulo Cloud Accelerator.
Efficient Storage
Eliminates the data duplication, idle replication, and wasted costs that can plague edge, cloud, and core hybrid architectures.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Two options for Edge Accelerator: RoBo, for larger edge deployments requiring high performance and up to 100TB of local cache capacity; and SoHo, for smaller edge instances requiring up to 32TB of local cache capacity. For Cloud Accelerator, there are only charges for throughput/IOPs consumed.
If more storage is needed locally, then upgrading to a fully licensed version of Qumulo Core would be the more cost-effective and reliable solution.
No – Qumulo Accelerators are explicitly engineered as a local-storage endpoint that pairs with at least one Qumulo Core or cloud deployment via Cloud Data Fabric and are not available as standalone solutions.
No. We don’t recommend hosting data solely on Qumulo Accelerators due to their limited ability to protect local data against failure. The preferred solution would be to use Qumulo Accelerator for read-write caching only, and host all data in an on-premises or cloud-based Qumulo instance, which includes safeguards at the data layer to protect against device or node failure.
For most use cases, Edge Accelerator serves as a local cache for remote data rather than as the primary data owner, with Qumulo NeuralCache dynamically and automatically managing the prefetching of remote data to the local Edge Accelerator target and the flushing of older data that is no longer needed locally. Just open the files you use, and let NeuralCache determine how to optimize both read and write performance for the data you work with. In most cases, the movement of data between the Edge Accelerator device and an on-premises or cloud-based Qumulo deployment is fully automatic.