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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

No tree walks, easily have storage on prem and in the cloud with replication across the platforms. They have migration solutions available to make it an easy swap from your old system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

I haven't seen any down sides yet. If I had to say anything, maybe cost? However, the cost is reasonable for what you get and it was cheaper than Isilon, so we haven't seen any reason to go think about another solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Get a demo now! It may not be the best fit for everyone, but this was a great solution for a small to mid size business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

No tree walks, so it's much easier to filter through the data. Being able to create a hybrid storage environment from day 1. They have migration solutions available so it's easy to move from an old/different system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Qumulo Core Overview

What is Qumulo Core?

Qumulo is the breakthrough leader in simplifying unstructured data management at massive scale across hybrid-cloud environments. Qumulo provides a high-performance file data platform designed to store, manage and create workflows and applications with data in its native file form. Qumulo’s File Data Platform is both future-proofed and seamlessly works with existing applications and technologies: It enables customers to easily manage the full data lifecycle from ingestion, transformation, publishing and archiving with cost-effective capacity, dynamic scalability, automatic encryption, real-time analytics, and an advanced API so they can easily integrate Qumulo into their technology ecosystem and workflows.

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Qumulo Core is a software-only solution that leverage the price/performance of commodity hardware coupled with the modern technologies of flash, virtualization and cloud.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Qumulo offers:
- Radical simplicity so that customers can set up in minutes on -prem or in the cloud and achieve faster time to results. The intuitive user interface with real-time operational analytics (ITOps) makes it easy to manage billions of files, multiple users and regions with few resources.
- Easy migration to the cloud without refactoring.
- Freedom of choice as a software-defined solution that avoids vendor lock-in and supports environments on public cloud, data center or edge.
- Support for an unlimited number of applications and users running on Linux, Windows, or MAC in a single environment.
- Dynamic scalability to serve petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users with cost-efficient capacity for different files, plus it supports billions of files in a single namespace.
- Extreme agility, releasing new features and performance enhancements in two week rapid-release cycles.
- The most agile customer support program in the industry.


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Qumulo
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2012
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4.0 out of 5
"Qumulo Core Storage"
Qumulo has best-in-class support for its products. The web interface is modern and provides excellent analytics for monitor the health and performa...
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"Qumulo array review"
After the setup of the system, I spend less than 1 hr a week logging into the multiple arrays and checking them to make sure everything is going well
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KF
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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

After the setup of the system, I spend less than 1 hr a week logging into the multiple arrays and checking them to make sure everything is going well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

The worst part of owning the arrays is doing the firmware updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

The arrays house inspection images for production and security camera footage for more than 500 cameras. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

The response time to speak to a technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

After using Qumulo for a few years, I still have not found anything I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Qumulo, we were using an Expensive all-flash solution with windows on the front end.

Qumulo is a much more cost-effective solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt D.
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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Having worked with other storage platforms for number of years, Qumulo is a breath of fresh air, it is is simple to deploy and simple to manage. The UI is simple and straightforward to use and the documentation takes you through every thing you need to do, step by step. From receiving the equipment on site, deploying, migrating 200TB of data and bringing the system into production, all of it was completed in days.

The best feature is being able to see where your data is, how big it is and how its grown, it allows me to provide valuable insights to the business.

Their support is via Slack, has been a very good experience with a quick and helpful response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

So far after 4 months I haven't found anything to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Make sure you understand your performance requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Qumulo to consolidate 4 separate file systems to one and to provide disaster recovery and business continuity by replicating data to a remote Qumulo system.

The benefits were:

Reduced Power consumption and cooling requirements

Reduces space needs (8U vs 36U)

Simplified admin

Greater performance, single tier, so no need to move files around

Overall reduced TCO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

The support, cannot rave about it enough, they have become an extension of our service desk. They are very helpful and response. The model they use is slack based so you simple chat in slack and are talking direct to the engineers about your issue.

The software is also very simple and well documented, the rest API is fully featured since the web interface is built on top it.

Onboarding was incredibly easy and they had an engineer to help us get started

They are also a heavy agile shop so updates come out every 2 weeks, with the option for a quarterly roll up, they are very active in seeking out end user feedback on features and direction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Early on there was no RBAC support and upgrades had to be planned due to outage of file services. Those have all been fixed, not much I can say I dislike. They are not the most expensive in the market place but also not the cheapest

During implementation we ran into issues with how they implemented SMB 2.1 protocol, so we worked with engineering a lot and had to revert a lot of users to NFS while some users were able to stay on SMB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would highly recommend them over any other company, the support is what is the best part, one of our concerns going from block level fibre channel to NAS was performance and interoperability with Adobe products. We have not noticed issues and have not missed a beat Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a very expensive fibre channel SAN which made it very hard to scale and upgrade. We are in a season of agressive growth - 25-35 TB a year so adding storage with Qumulo is easy

Also understanding storage is easy - the metadata they provide helps me understand heavy users in terms of IOPs and storage breakdown and growth

Also as work loads mix across devices having a NAS vs a SAN is helpful for a simple sharing experience, Qumulo also does a good job with SMB and NFS sharing at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Qumulo has best-in-class support for its products. The web interface is modern and provides excellent analytics for monitor the health and performance of the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Lack of NFS-v4 ACLs is something on the roadmap but not yet implemented. Overall I am happy with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project storage and near-line archival are both problems solved by using Qumulo. The benefits realized including lower management costs, storage efficiencies gained from the filesystem design, and excellent support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adem Y.
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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

User friendly GUI and easy upgrade process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

S3 protocol is not supportted. I hope will be come at future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is faster response many workload type and easyly presentation NAS storage req. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Simplicity, visibility, performance and scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

not much to dislike with regards to technology could offer better pricing as this is always a constraint for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

File access for 20k staff is now delivered with performance and complete visibility in usage analytics (in real time) and also a reduction (zero) in downtime without the overhead of the previous windows SMB patch management issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Speed and versatility of the system. Using something this robust has really taken our work to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Errors that offset work and delay our production schedules. Support side has been helpful but can often confuse my team who are not IT peeps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Take it for a test run and put it through its paces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

Video asset management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

We can easily control all data. Easy and practical controllable storage. Authorizations are useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Other than being a bit expensive, there is no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Expensive but worth compared to other storage servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

The replaced discs did not have an external problem. This problem was resolved after the updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

The team at Qumulo is very helpful in any issues we have had. They are proactive and are always monitoring our Storage Stack. They have many times informed us of issues with the stack we haven't even noticed.

Even at those times, they have always excelled and always ensured we are kept in shape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Nothing I can think of that I dislike about them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

I can assure you that you cannot go wrong with choosing Qumulo. The device, support, and vision that the company has enabled us to look to them only for storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are provided a large data platform for our company which is fast, informative and great to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.