Start-Up Profile: Qumulo

HQs
Seattle, WA

Founded in
March 2012

Financial funding

Series A: $24.5 million led by Data Collective, Valhalla Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Highland Capital Partners
Series B: $40 million led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Madrona Venture Group, Valhalla Partners, and Highland Capital Partners
Total investment: $67 million

Founders (all working previously at from Isilon)

Peter Godman, CEO: Brings 20 years of industry systems experience. As VP of engineering and CEO of Corensic, he brought the world’s first thin-hypervisor based product to market. As director of software engineering at Isilon (acquired by EMC for $2.5 billion in 2010), he led development of several major releases of Isilon’s OneFS distributed file system and was inventor of 18 patented technologies.
Neal Fachan, VP engineering: Brings 15 years of systems software experience. At Amazon Web Services, he designed and led development of database technologies. Prior to Amazon, he was distinguished engineer at Isilon, where he provided technical vision for Isilon’s OneFS clustered file system, resulting in more than thirty patented technologies. Prior to Isilon, he worked in the Third Market group at D.E.
Aaron Passey, CTO: Was the CTO at Clustrix producing a scale-out OLTP relational database. Previously, he was the chief architect for Isilon, where he oversaw the technical direction of the product and was named as an inventor on 33 patents. Prior to Isilon, he designed code for the I/O subsystem of Cray supercomputers.

Number of employees
90

Product description
Qumulo Core is a data-aware scale-out NAS to store, manage and curate enormous numbers of digital assets.

Qumulo Core

It is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for A wide range of workloads and file sizes and is 100% programmable through an interactive REST-API.

Qumulo Core’s real-time analytics help businesses obtain instant answers about their data footprint by explaining usage patterns and which users or workloads are impacting their performance and capacity.

At the heart of the software is the Qumulo Scalable File System (QSFS), designed to take advantage of the price/performance economics of commodity hardware, flash and dense spinning disk. It is designed to be both read and write optimized, have high sequential and transactional performance, and efficiently handle small and large files.

The software application runs as a user application on top of Linux OS that can be run on commodity hardware appliances provided by Qumulo.

Architecture

Primary benefits include:

Real-time analytics – QSFS stores data, but also curates and manages it
Software-only solution – Core runs on commodity hardware, on dedicated appliances, or in VMs
Flash-first hybrid design – Maximizes both price/performance and price/capacity
SaaS software delivery model – Pay-as-you-go for continual infrastructure software innovation
No compromise storage – Optimized a range of workloads and file size
Programmable – Public and self-documenting REST API with interactive API explorer built into the web UI

The Qumulo Q0626 hybrid storage appliance is a 1U node that provides 24TB of raw HDD capacity and 1.6TB of raw SSD capacity with two 10GbE. The data-aware scale-out NAS can be scaled from four to over 1,000 nodes in a single cluster and single namespace.

Released date
March 16, 2015

Price
Qumulo Core software and Qumulo Q0626 hybrid storage appliances are available. Entry pricing for a four node 100TB raw capacity Q0626 hybrid storage cluster begins at $50,000.

Number of customers
15

Main customers
Ant Farm, Blind Studios, Densho, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Sinclair Oil Corp., Sportvision, Inc., TELUS Studios, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, ZOIC Studios

Applications
Commercial HPC workloads

Competitors
Include Amplidata, Caringo, Cleversafe, Cloudian, DataGravity, DDN, EMC Isilon, HDS, NetApp Data ONTAP 8 and Scality