Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric
Harness the full potential of your data with a unified global file system that spans across data centers and clouds, facilitating efficient accelerated computing and broadening data accessibility without being constrained by protocols or transport limitations.
Global Reach, Data Precision
Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric delivers geographically distributed workforces with low-latency access to shared remote datasets, enabling transformative business capabilities.
Benefits of the Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric
Real-time Global Collaboration
Empower distributed workforces to collaborate on the same data simultaneously without sacrificing performance.
Optimized Storage TCO
Unify on-premises and cost-effective cloud storage into a Cloud Data Fabric to optimize costs and reduce TCO without performance tradeoffs.
Improved Data Governance
Improve data governance and security with policy-driven data visibility and access.
Global Reach, Data Precision
Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric enables geographically distributed teams instantaneous data access and concurrent global collaboration on remote datasets enabling transformative business capabilities.
Global Namespace
Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric provides global visibility and secure access to data, with strict data consistency, to ensure data and application integrity and accuracy.
Qumulo Portals
Qumulo data portals enable organizations to connect and share data with remote clients without the need for point-to-point replication and complex data orchestration.
Predictive Caching
Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric Predictive Caching proactively monitors data access patterns and prefetches data to minimize latency for remote clients.
Data Acceleration
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric accelerates data availability by loading only folder and file metadata at the remote sites. Data is cached locally on request, and subsequent data requests are served locally to preserve bandwidth and improve application responsiveness.
Advanced Analytics
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric APIs expose metadata that enables organizations to query and analyze their data to discover actionable insights.
How does the Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric Work?
Download our white paper to learn more about how the CDF Hub-and-spoke model works, including our intelligent caching and WAN optimization capabilities.
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Every Workload, Everywhere, All at Once
Across various industries, Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric facilitates digital transformation, delivering competitive advantage while reducing complexity and cost.
Media and Entertainment
Burst Compute for Tight Deadlines
Never miss a deadline. Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric enables organizations to dynamically expand on-premise burst render capacity by making data available to cloud-based burst compute capacity securely and without replication.
Healthcare
Accelerate time to detection.
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric enables organizations to extend data from their systems to cloud AI services for accelerated analysis. It encrypts all data to FIPS 140-2 standards and is HIPAA and SOC-2 compliant.
Financial Services
Provide low-latency access for high-frequency trading
Financial institutions require globally consistent data for their distributed workforce. Give your analysts and high-frequency traders low-latency access to market data from centralized remote locations while ensuring high availability and regulatory compliance.
Hybrid Cloud
Global data access for a seamless hybrid cloud experience
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric enables organizations to seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud resources with a coherent Cloud Data Fabric to deliver a true hybrid cloud experience. It seamlessly spans cloud and on-premise data centers to eliminate time-consuming replication, complex orchestration, and expensive application refactoring.
Edge
Accelerate data transfer for edge computing workflows
Qumulo Edge helps you optimize limited edge compute resources. Whether you’re ingesting data from hundreds of IoT devices for processing in the core or the cloud or need to rapidly onboard a remote site, Cloud Data Fabric enables cost-optimized edge computing with no performance compromise.
Archive
Enable rapid retrieval for active archive
Seamlessly integrates on-premise data storage with cost-efficient cloud storage, such as CNQ Cold, without compromising performance, availability or security.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric?
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric breaks down the technical and economic barriers to sharing data where and when your business needs it, empowering organizations to:
- Share data data anywhere, on-demand, while maintaining data sovereignty and security.
- Rapidly on-board skilled workers and partners globally to enable competitive advantage.
- Seamlessly integrate on-premise data with cloud-based storage to enable a true hybrid cloud.
- Migrate data and applications to available cloud resources to optimize costs and accelerate application performance.
Is the Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric the same as Qumulo Global Namespace?
Yes. Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric consists of five key technologies:
- A Global Namespace that provides consistent data visibility and and access, with a geographically distributed, high-performance cache that maintains strict data consistency across the Cloud Data Fabric.
- Predictive Caching that preemptively fetches data based on application access patterns.
- Data Portals interconnect Qumulo Edges with the Data Core that enables data to be expressed from the Data core to any edge location, securely and on-demand.
- Transport optimizations that accelerate data transfer between from the data core to consumers (applications, clients, etc).
- Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric provides rich metadata via a RESTful API, enabling advanced data analytics to help inform business decisions.
How does the Data Core and Edge model for Cloud Data Fabric work?
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric is a strictly consistent data fabric that guarantees all nodes in a system see the same data at the same time, ensuring both immediate data and application consistency. To accomplish this, Qumulo uses a Core-Edge architecture, where all data is durably stored at the Data Core and expressed to an Edge across a Data Portal on-demand. The choice of word expressed is deliberate; Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric maintains a cache at the edge and does not require data replication nor persistent data.
When a user requests data, the Data Portal transfers data blocks from the Data Core to the Edge, which are cached locally. Subsequent reads for the same data are served from the cache, which improves user and application responsiveness. If a user writes to the cached data, the file is locked globally, and only changed data block(s) are written to the Data Core, not the entire file. The Data Core updates other Edges that are accessing the same file. Once the write operation is complete, the global lock is released.
What is Predictive Caching?
Predictive Caching is an extension to Qumulo’s Intelligent Caching algorithm that adds application-awareness to accelerate application responsiveness. When an application or user accesses a file, the Predictive Caching algorithm predicts which data blocks will be fetched next and prefetches those data blocks into the Edge cache, reducing file access latency and improving application performance.
How does Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric optimize traffic over the WAN?
Most existing file access protocols – SMB, NFS, etc. – communications transfer multiple small data packets and acknowledgments, which are significantly impacted by the higher latency inherent in wide-area connections, leading to noticeable slowdowns in file transfers over long distances. Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric mitigates this by terminating file protocols at the Data Core and Edge locations and uses an optimized block transfer protocol between Data Portals. This significantly increases performance and application responsiveness while maintaining interoperability with existing client protocols.
How is Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric licensed?
Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric is licensed based on the amount of data you plan to share through the global namespace and portals. Please reach out to our team to learn more.