Qumulo Showcases Cloud Data Fabric Innovation
Qumulo’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 23 highlighted their innovative approach to unstructured data storage across hybrid cloud environments. The company, known for their advanced file system technology that enables unified global data management across data centers and clouds, has built a customer base spanning entertainment, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and government sectors during their 13 years in business.
The core of Qumulo’s offering is their cloud data fabric, designed to unify data across any hardware platform and cloud environment. The company’s solution works with unstructured data, which is 80% of what feeds enterprise systems and includes film/video, images, telemetry, game builds, mapping/GIS, and more. By supporting data on any hardware and any cloud, it gives customers infrastructure freedom of choice and allows them to choose the configuration that is best for them.
Central to Qumulo's approach is building a strictly consistent, very correct, and very durable file system that extends authentication and authorization to surrounding systems. This ensures data is available to authorized users in its most accurate and consistent form, which is critically important for AI applications that depend on current, correct data. The system can treat distributed data pools as a single file system while maintaining local performance characteristics, addressing pain points around data gravity and geographic distribution.
I was blown away by Qumulo’s customer testimonials as their value proposition came to life. The company believes they are in 10 of the world's 10 largest video production houses, with many recent major releases having some connection to their infrastructure. In pharmaceuticals, they support 10 of the 10 largest recipients of grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. They also handle critical applications like wildfire modeling for Southern California firefighters and real-time crime center operations.
The TechArena Take – Innovation for Real Problem Solving
What impressed me from the talk was Qumulo’s focus on solving real operational challenges. Their cloud data fabric addresses pain points around data gravity, geographic distribution, and strict consistency across hybrid environments. The ability to treat distributed data pools as a single file system while maintaining local performance is technically impressive and practically valuable.
Customer stories demonstrate clear ROI, from helping mortgage underwriters improve productivity from 3 to 14 applications daily with AI processing technologies to enabling global visual effects collaboration without traditional data movement constraints. The combination of technical innovation with real-world problem-solving makes Qumulo compelling for enterprises dealing with large-scale unstructured data challenges.
Qumulo’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 23 highlighted their innovative approach to unstructured data storage across hybrid cloud environments. The company, known for their advanced file system technology that enables unified global data management across data centers and clouds, has built a customer base spanning entertainment, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and government sectors during their 13 years in business.
The core of Qumulo’s offering is their cloud data fabric, designed to unify data across any hardware platform and cloud environment. The company’s solution works with unstructured data, which is 80% of what feeds enterprise systems and includes film/video, images, telemetry, game builds, mapping/GIS, and more. By supporting data on any hardware and any cloud, it gives customers infrastructure freedom of choice and allows them to choose the configuration that is best for them.
Central to Qumulo's approach is building a strictly consistent, very correct, and very durable file system that extends authentication and authorization to surrounding systems. This ensures data is available to authorized users in its most accurate and consistent form, which is critically important for AI applications that depend on current, correct data. The system can treat distributed data pools as a single file system while maintaining local performance characteristics, addressing pain points around data gravity and geographic distribution.
I was blown away by Qumulo’s customer testimonials as their value proposition came to life. The company believes they are in 10 of the world's 10 largest video production houses, with many recent major releases having some connection to their infrastructure. In pharmaceuticals, they support 10 of the 10 largest recipients of grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. They also handle critical applications like wildfire modeling for Southern California firefighters and real-time crime center operations.
The TechArena Take – Innovation for Real Problem Solving
What impressed me from the talk was Qumulo’s focus on solving real operational challenges. Their cloud data fabric addresses pain points around data gravity, geographic distribution, and strict consistency across hybrid environments. The ability to treat distributed data pools as a single file system while maintaining local performance is technically impressive and practically valuable.
Customer stories demonstrate clear ROI, from helping mortgage underwriters improve productivity from 3 to 14 applications daily with AI processing technologies to enabling global visual effects collaboration without traditional data movement constraints. The combination of technical innovation with real-world problem-solving makes Qumulo compelling for enterprises dealing with large-scale unstructured data challenges.
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