Qumulo

What is Qumulo?

Qumulo is an enterprise file data platform that gives organizations a single global file system across data centers, edge sites and public cloud. The vendor says more than 1,100 enterprise companies use it.

Key features of Qumulo

• Qumulo Core: the distributed data operating system.
• Cloud Native Qumulo: an exabyte-scale file data platform in the cloud.
• NeuralCache: predictive caching and prefetching.
• NeuralProtect: real-time ransomware and malware protection.
• NeuralSearch: search for unstructured data at scale.
• Multi-protocol access: NFS, SMB, object and REST on a single namespace.
• SLURP: high-speed migration from legacy NAS.

How Qumulo works

Qumulo runs as software on supported hardware or in a cloud account, forming a scale-out cluster with one namespace. Data can be accessed over several protocols and moved between locations through the data fabric.

Who uses Qumulo?

Enterprises in media and entertainment, life sciences, healthcare, energy, financial services, higher education and the public sector. Use cases include AI workloads, archiving, backup, video surveillance and ransomware protection.

Qumulo pricing

Qumulo does not publish pricing. The vendor mentions predictable cost control and scaling capacity and performance up or down, and directs buyers to talk to sales or try Qumulo.

Qumulo integrations

Qumulo runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and on on-premises hardware from Cisco, HPE, SuperMicro and Arrow. It supports NFS, SMB, object and REST access.

Qumulo alternatives

Backblaze and Wasabi are object storage services priced by capacity, while Qumulo is a file system for high-performance enterprise workloads. Dropbox and Box are file sync and collaboration tools for end users rather than infrastructure storage.