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What do you like best about Cumulus?

Open networking compared to being locked into a specific vendor or lineup of products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cumulus?

Lack of support for "older" models. The compatible products quickly lose support for updates and newer versions of the OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cumulus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplifying configuration and networking equipment lineup across the networks. It has excellent support for automating everything as it's built on top of Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Cumulus?

NVIDIA is the leader in open networking, end-to-end at all layers of software and hardware. NVIDIA combines the benefits of NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum based switches, providing the industry's leading performing ASIC, with the latest network operating system advances including NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, Sonic and NVIDIA Mellanox Onyx, offering choice and flexibility while removing restrictions. NVIDIA Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale using web-scale principles like the world's largest data centers. Cumulus Linux was built for automation, scalability and flexibility, allowing you to build a data center network that ideally suits your business needs.

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Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. Its network switch, Cumulus Linux, is the only solution that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world's largest data center operators, unlocking vertical network stacks.

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NVIDIA
Year Founded
1993
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36,197 employees on LinkedIn®
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$16,675
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Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.

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1.5 out of 5
"Out of date"
Cumulus had a large storage capacity to store photos.
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4.5 out of 5
"Great Package To USE"
east of use, and simple processes. Out training is lower than with other providers and we save a bundle
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"Good product and customer support, lacks final finish"
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What do you like best about Cumulus?

Cumulus had a large storage capacity to store photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cumulus?

While Cumulus seemed like a good platform for our photo database, after several years, we realized it wasn't meeting our needs. It wasn't user friendly, clients had a hard time downloading and finding items, there wasn't an methodical way to help organize your assests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cumulus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a platform that could house thousands of photos; however, it wasn't able to grow and expand with our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cumulus?

It's linux based. Open source. Easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cumulus?

You can't do much on Cumulus VX. You have to buy physical switches to perform labs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cumulus:

Please try this for explanding your knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cumulus solving and how is that benefiting you?

My things was to learn about cumulus. It's really beneficial to install linux on any vendor's hardware so it's like all using same OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cumulus?

The commands and CLIs are more likely as linux and this helps a great deal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cumulus?

Giving "net commit" always is sometimes tiring and it would be nice if there's a straight commit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cumulus solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am an Interop tester and I test my switches with many other vendor devices including Cumulus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cumulus?

east of use, and simple processes. Out training is lower than with other providers and we save a bundle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cumulus?

the pricing structure could be better and also tech support sometimes lags but isn't too bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cumulus solving and how is that benefiting you?

a completed solution that ended a nightmare we had the compettion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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