Redefining what’s possible for archive file storage

Peter Godman, co-founder and CTO of Qumulo stated: “The storage industry has been thinking about file archive storage all wrong. By focusing scarce development resources on low-volume, proprietary hardware, storage vendors are holding customers back from the tremendous innovation in the overall market for advanced server components. Customers end up paying more and getting less, locked into designs that are obsolete the day they ship. Unlocking the power of advanced hardware components to create the world’s fastest and most scalable file system, Qumulo is destroying the myth that custom hardware is required to achieve best-in-class storage performance, scale and economics.”

Data is at the heart of every business and customers need archived information to be as accessible as the rest of their data. Today’s archive solutions need to mimic the behaviour of cloud services, with performance and economics at their core. Qumulo’s Nearline Archive Series is a scale-out storage solution that uses high density 12TB drives and system-on-a-chip to provide unprecedented performance and economics.

It is 20-40% more efficient in storing data than legacy solutions for large and small files. It’s designed for small footprint, linear scalability, with inherently low power consumption. With every release of Qumulo’s software, new features and capabilities are added, so the solution gets better and faster over time. 

Features and benefits of the Qumulo Nearline Archive Series include:

• Modern approach to scale: The Qumulo Nearline Archive Series runs QF2, which is designed for the scale and performance of the cloud era.
• Instant insight and analytics: QumuloDB’s instant analytics is used by customers to create agile, responsive storage environments, aiming to provide real-time visibility into the performance of storage, capacity and usage, all the way to the individual user’s activity. 
• Instant access to the data you need: QF2 gives information about the file system in real time, no matter how many files are stored. Administrators can tell immediately which of the archived data is still being accessed and what is dormant. 
• Standard hardware: Qumulo believes that the future is file storage on standard hardware whether on premises or in the cloud. Qumulo’s reliance on industry-standard hardware architectures is a key benefit for customers looking to maximise their investment in a world of rapid hardware innovation. 
• Dense drives: QF2’s Scalable Block Store technology means the Qumulo Nearline Archive is able to use high density drives. Today it employs 12TB drives for density and value.
• Cloud-integrated nearline archive storage: QF2, which can run on premises and in the cloud, uses continuous replication to create a data fabric that interconnects every QF2 cluster, whether it’s all-flash, high-performance hybrid SSD/HDD, nearline archive or running on EC2 instances in AWS.