Qumulo: Storage Systems for Video Editing With Uncompressed 4K and 6K Video Playback Solutions

Qumulo, Inc. announced its latest relentless software innovation delivers intelligent performance capabilities that are transforming the media and entertainment industry, lowering the economics of video editing, visual effects and video distribution.

New machine learning capabilities ensure that editors can access uncompressed 4K with hybrid storage and 6K video using all-flash NVMe storage. The company’s storage solutions are delivering performance for demanding workloads, enabling customers to take advantage of the public cloud with the same file system.

These performance capabilities liberate film and video production studios from the limitations of legacy storage networks. With such performance centralized uncompressed 4K and 6K video playback solutions, studios can eliminate costly SANs, client-side software, HBAs and FC switches and cabling, allowing the company to enable the transition to 100% Ethernet environments with all-flash storage. This increases the number of editors that can be supported, while fostering more effective collaboration and decreasing overall costs.

“Qumulo has been a long-time game changer for the media and entertainment industry with our state-of-the-art data management and storage – and our new performance capabilities further elevate our position on the leaderboard,” said Peter Godman, co-founder and CTO, Qumulo. “The pursuit of excellence drives us to create more data, more of the time, with more resolution. From machine learning to video editorial to seismic exploration to understanding the nature of our very genomes, everything we learn and create depends on ultra-fast access to ever-growing data stores. Our team’s relentless software innovation has allowed Qumulo to shatter all-flash performance records starting with media and entertainment – and there’s nowhere to go but up.“

The company offers a storage system designed to cost-effectively manage the volume and geographic dispersion of today’s technology, both on-premise and in the public cloud. Its solutions are designed to meet today’s requirements for scale, offering a high performance file storage system for data centers and the public cloud. The firm offers the freedom to store, manage and access their file-based data in any operating environment, at petabyte and global scale.

The company’s latest performance improvements include:

All flash P-series
Highest all-flash performance per terabyte in the industry. The P-Series sets a new standard: 6K video playback using machine learning and NVMe drives. A single 92TB cluster offers 18GB/s throughput, featuring 200,000 IO/s from a four-node cluster. This means 90GB/s/rack in a single unified namespace with instantaneous quotas and per-directory snapshots. As the minimum configuration, capacity and performance scale from here.

Hybrid QC-series
All-flash performance on a hybrid platform. The latest software offers scale-out NAS support of centralized uncompressed 4K video playback. Until now, all-flash storage was required to reach this level of performance. But, in a new storage era, customers can enjoy performance with hybrid affordability.

Qumulo File Fabric(QF2)

Pre-fetch intelligence. Machine learning-powered pre-fetch anticipates and queues up the files that users will most likely access next, whether it be a sequence of files by name or simply a traversal of all files in a directory structure.
Workload and user awareness. The firm’s software can recognize workload specific behavior, even on the same cluster, specific to an individual user. This enables dynamic workload scaling to maximize cache utilization and storage efficiency.
Proactive caching. File access pattern analysis proactively caches individual blocks of files most likely to be repeatedly accessed.
Maximum flexibility and investment protection. All platforms come with native replication directly to the public cloud.

“Enterprises today need more modern storage able to flex for performance, speed and capacity demands,” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, ESG. “With new technology innovations coupled with advances in machine learning, Qumulo’s storage solutions can help accommodate some of today’s most demanding workloads, while helping customers to take full advantage of cloud economics and scale.“

Today’s performance improvements are included at no additional charge for existing Qumulo subscriptions and all existing QC104, QC208 and QC260 systems to deliver one uncompressed 4K stream per node, delivering a 3x-10x performance improvement in frame-based workloads across video editorial and machine learning.

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