Qumulo With Suite of Data Services to Simplify File Data Management at Scale

Qumulo, Inc., into file data platform that helps organizationsasily store and manage file data so they can build and scale their applications with unrivaled freedom, control and real-time visibility, announced a suite of data services that simplify managing massive amounts of file data.

It unveiled 2 new data services, Secure and Dynamic Scale, and introduced advancements including Instant Software Upgrade to Core, a NVMe Cached Performance and Shift’s new visual interface.

“Radical simplicity is critical for customers to be successful with unstructured data. Our software-driven file data platform offers enterprise-level capabilities that radically simplify the process of today’s digital transformation,” said Ben Gitenstein, VP of product. “With the data services we announced today, Qumulo’s customers can simplify the complexity of their infrastructure, accelerate innovation, and unleash the power of their data, wherever it resides.”

NVMe Cached Performance: Lowering cost of performance
Although many workloads, such as data analytics, research computing, and rich media content creation, benefit from low latency and massive throughput, access to the most performant leading-edge technologies has historically been accessible only to specialized workloads with large budgets.

Qumulo is introducing the file industry’s first software to provide ML optimized read and write cache leveraging NVMe. The intelligent cache manages data on the optimal storage media to get both performance and cost-effective capacity. With the introduction of the latest release of Core software and 2 new qualified hardware options (C-192T and C-432T), the company now offers NVMe performance at the price of disk.

“The new Qumulo Core capability to use NVMe as cache enables us to meet our performance and budget needs by providing great economics from very dense hard drives combined with its great caching capabilities on extremely fast NVMe drives,” said Serkan Yalcin, director of IT, infrastructure Dev/Ops, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. “Qumulo’s intelligent caching, without managing policies, has been great and provides even more value for us with NVMe as the caching layer. These features, combined with their great customer success experience, really empower us to focus on our mission of bringing population health data to the world.”

Dynamic Scale: Leverage new processor, storage and memory innovation to scale existing deployments
Data is growing rapidly. Users need access to new technology to keep pace. Historically, organizations have had to worry about when to invest in new technology, concerned they may miss the window to access new advancements that may be imminently released. The introduction of Qumulo Dynamic Scale enables administrators to leverage newly qualified platforms with the latest processors, memory and storage devices without the need for forklift upgrades, data migrations, or complex storage pool management. Users now can add new qualified platforms into existing environments with no need to manage different storage pools or perform a data migration. The new platforms are simply added to the existing environment, data is automatically redistributed, and the increased performance and capacity are automatically made available to users and applications.

“Everyone from the marketing group to our dot-com and interactive groups is relying on it. We needed the storage equivalent of a reliable Swiss army knife, and unfortunately, our old system wasn’t cutting it anymore,” said Raoul Edwards, director, network systems engineering and field ops, MSG Networks.

Secure: Automated data encryption, for free
To help make data encryption easy and cost effective, Qumulo is introducing AES 256-bit software encryption at-rest as part of its Secure set of data services. For new deployments, the firm now encrypts all data, automatically. No additional third-party applications or key managers are needed, and there is no added cost. Encryption now comes standard, as do all firm’s features as part of the standard software subscription.

Secure provides a range of security features, including role-based authentication (RBAC), audit, and encryption in-flight. And with today’s announcement, the Qumulo software will now encrypt all data automatically, on any deployment type, at no additional cost.

“With Qumulo making industry-standard AES-256 encryption a standard in their solution, I never need to worry about if my data is at risk,” said Hanoz Elavia, storage administrator, Atomic Cartoons, Inc.

Instant Upgrade to Core: No downtime to users or applications, no maintenance windows
Software upgrades to IT infrastructure historically required time-consuming planning, maintenance windows, and scheduled downtime. When using Instant Upgrade, the system starts the new version in a container, changes the system to point to the new version, and stops the old version in under 20s, making upgrades fast and consistent across cluster sizes and different underlying hardware. And when OS updates are needed, Instant Upgrade automates those, applying updates and rebooting nodes as needed to achieve an upgraded environment with ease.

“Managing data with Qumulo is so simple that it’s hard to describe the impact. It has given us tremendous ROI in terms of time saved and problems eliminated. Having such reliable storage makes us eager to use it more broadly throughout the company,” said John Beck, IT manager, Hyundai Mobis.

Shift: Simplify transformation of data from file to object now with visual interface
Data is typically created in a file format, but applications and developers often want to leverage capabilities and services connected to cloud object stores such as AWS S3. Shift makes it simple to copy data from a file solution into S3. The new visual interface makes it easier to leverage data in the location and format that makes innovation fastest. When data needs to be transformed from file to object, customers can simply select their choice S3 target buckets and initiate a data copy with the click of a button.

With Shift, customers can:

Leverage legacy and cloud-native applications without having to re-build their architecture
Retain S3-native and file-native properties to maintain full data control and ownership
Avoid having to refactor applications or use third-party data movement packages

Qumulo’s file data platform makes it easy and affordable for organizations to leverage the value of massive data sets distributed across on-prem and multi-clouds and ensures visibility into the data with uncompromising security and data protection.

Availability

NVMe Cached Performance
- Software optimizations for NVMe as cache – available now in software release 3.0.2
- New qualified platforms:
  - C-192T – available to order today, general availability November 25, 2020
  - C-432T – available to order today, general availability November 10, 2020
- Dynamic Scale – available December 15, 2020
- Secure – available now in software release 3.1.5
- Instant software upgrade for Core – available November 25, 2020, in software release 3.3.3
- Shift included in a visual interface – available now in software release 3.3.0