Qumulo confirms its NAS market footprint

Qumulo, the obvious leader in file storage for M&E, we can say that without any doubt, makes an other key announcement following the one last week related to CloudStudio, CloudContinuity and GCP support. You can refer to this post for more info.

Now the company unveiled 3 things:

1. New hardware appliance C-72T (1U) for nearline archives being denser and faster than existing ones, starting at 144TB raw, clusterizable with 5 other nodes.
   
The company has also published some very compelling performance results reaching a new level of price/performance and price/capacity ratios. Images below illustrate performance gains.

2. New permission model to support file access protocols across heterogenous platforms. This new module named XPP for Cross-Protocols Permissions offers to users a similar model to access files even if they comme from MacOS, Linux or Windows environments. It reminds the acquisition of Likewise by EMC early 2012 for approximately $37 million to offer a similar approach between Unix, Linux and Windows environments as Isilon ran a Samba flavor for CIFS services.
3. New S3 storage service with partnership with MinIO. Qumulo has selected MinIO, the obvious S# on-premies object storage. Here it works as a gateway on top on NAS so none intrusive at all et very easy to deploy and it is super fast. A tutorial is available here. Honestly, they can't select any other player as they wish a serious offering.

Qumulo accelerates for several months now addressing new uses cases, joining new verticals with deeper integration and add key new features. Azure should arrive in a few months and the picture will even more comprehensive.