“Qumulo doesn't just solve the storage problem—it removes storage as a constraint to AI innovation entirely.”
—John Jacobs, CIO
Unify Your Unstructured Data at Exabyte Scale with Qumulo Core
The cloud-native data platform that powers your enterprise, delivering full feature parity and an identical management experience on-premises, at the edge, and in the cloud.
Where performance, scale, and control come together
Limitless Performance
Qumulo Core delivers consistent, high-throughput performance at petabyte scale, eliminating the bottlenecks of traditional storage.
Total Visibility
Live analytics and granular insights give storage admins the actionable intelligence to manage capacity, performance, and system health in real time.
Effortless Scale
Add capacity without downtime or complex rebalancing. Qumulo Core's scale-out architecture grows with your organization — seamlessly and without disruption.
Built-In Protection
Native replication, snapshots, and ransomware protection give your data the resilience and recoverability that your organization demands.
Unmatched Density
Maintain consistent performance at high utilization—so you can use up to 100% of your storage without excess headroom.
Unified Control
One consistent management layer across on-premises and cloud environments. Eliminate silos and simplify administration across your entire infrastructure.
Key Differentiators & Customer Outcomes
Stop letting fragmented storage silos, rising costs, and inflexible architectures constrain your business. Qumulo Core is the foundational software layer of the Qumulo Data Platform, enabling you to store, manage, and scale your unstructured data seamlessly across any infrastructure without re-architecting your applications.
Run Anywhere Portability
(No OEM Lock-In)
Qumulo Core is a 100% software-defined, hardware-agnostic platform that runs consistently on industry-standard x86 servers—such as Cisco, HPE, Arrow, and Supermicro—as well as in public cloud environments. You gain the ultimate freedom to adapt your infrastructure strategy over time without risk, operational disruption, or being tied to proprietary hardware.
True Multi-Protocol Access
Eliminate the cost and complexity of maintaining separate, siloed platforms for different workloads. Qumulo Core provides simultaneous, native support for NFS, SMB, S3, and REST on the exact same dataset. This allows diverse applications and teams to consolidate on a single platform without compromising compatibility.
Massive Scale with Real-Time Visibility
Scale effortlessly to hundreds of nodes and an exabyte or more of capacity within a single global namespace. Qumulo Core’s built-in, real-time metadata engine delivers instant analytics and visibility across trillions of files. You can troubleshoot, monitor performance, and plan capacity instantly, without relying on slow, external indexing or reporting tools.
Cost-Efficient, Predictable Performance
Stop overprovisioning and paying for stranded capacity. Qumulo Core allows you to right-size your performance and storage by supporting flash and HDD tiers within a single system. Its distributed, log-structured design eliminates centralized bottlenecks, delivering highly reliable and predictable performance even as your workloads grow exponentially.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Reliability
Keep your mission-critical data safe and strictly compliant as you modernize. Qumulo Core protects data integrity at scale with automated self-healing mechanisms, immutable snapshots, encryption in transit and at rest, and intelligent, real-time quotas.
Designed to fit into your world
A high-level look at how Qumulo Core delivers performance, scale, and simplicity at the storage layer.
Cost-Effective
Minimize storage TCO without sacrificing resilience. Archive data with Qumulo Archive — 50% less than popular cloud solutions, with software, storage, and compute included. Go cold for the lowest possible costs.
Always Accessible
Your data is available the moment you need it — no delays, no retrieval windows, no compromises on access speed or availability.
Durable & Reliable
Built for long-term data survival. Qumulo Archive delivers up to 11+ 9’s of data durability—surpassing standard, dual-system on-prem deployments.
Secure & Immutable
Protect against tampering and ransomware with cryptographically locked, immutable snapshots—no modification, no deletion, no worry.
Cloud Ready - Extend to the Cloud
Using Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric integrated with your Qumulo Core allows you to extend your on-premises file system globally, instantly, with the same unlimited scalability and high performance.
Flexible to Run Anywhere
Use Qumulo software on any supported on-prem hardware or cloud infrastructure.
Choose your storage density. Optimize for power or cost and avoid vendor lock-in
Modernize without risk.
Consolidate your file and object workloads, lower your total cost of ownership, and gain unprecedented control over your data with Qumulo Core.
Deploy the platform your way
Cloud
Run Qumulo as a managed file service on leading public cloud platforms.
On-Premises
Deploy on certified enterprise hardware for predictable performance and full control.
At the Edge
Extend file services to remote and distributed locations with lightweight deployments.
Runs on leading enterprise hardware and cloud platforms
One Platform. One Partner. Experts on Standby.
No ticket queues. 24/7 access to engineers who understand AI-driven data access, caching, and large-scale data infrastructure. Real humans. Real answers. Built for performance at scale.
Additional Resources
Blog
From Proactive to Predictive: Why Qumulo’s 95 NPS Isn’t an Accident
Blog
28 Years Later: Why Disk Refuses to Die
Blog
The Great Silicon Squeeze: Why Architectural Flexibility Is Now a Board-Level Imperative
When four companies spend $600-700B in capital, the equivalent of a nation like Switzerland’s GDP, on infrastructure, they don’t just build data centers – they break global supply chains.
Give your data the freedom to flow with Qumulo
One platform. Any Data. Any Location. Total Control.
Frequently asked questions
Qumulo Core is built for high-performance, data-intensive workloads — including media and entertainment, life sciences, AI/ML pipelines, and enterprise file services — where scale and speed are non-negotiable.
Qumulo Core uses a scale-out architecture that lets you add capacity and performance incrementally — no downtime, no forklift upgrades. Your system grows with your needs without disrupting active workloads.
Yes. Qumulo Core runs consistently across on-premises hardware and major cloud platforms. A single management layer spans your entire environment, eliminating silos and simplifying administration wherever your data lives.
Qumulo Core includes native snapshots, continuous replication, and ransomware-resilient architecture. Immutable, cryptographically locked snapshots ensure your data remains protected against accidental deletion, tampering, and malicious threats.