Qumulo success story
Rating: 10 out of 10
August 16, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
Qumulo is currently used as a central network storage solution for our audio design team, graphic designers, video editors, and 3D modelers. About 30 people have access to it and use it to store files and work together on them. We also have a second cluster in our second theatre which acts as a backup. The Qumulo has solved a challenge we had with the cost and complexity of our old fiber SAN.
- Support, they offer a slack based support which is fast and incredibly helpful.
- Fast releases, they release new features every 2 weeks and actively seek out improvement ideas from end-users.
- NFS and SMB co-existent support through mapping permissions allows mixed end users to connect through there native protocol.
Cons
- Admin users are not able to be tied to SSO or LDAP accounts.
- At the start there was no RBAC but this has since been addressed.
- While there is incredible analytics, there is no native way to get historical trends by volume or user.
- Reduced cost in support and upgrade times compared to old fiber San.
- Allows the Service Desk to focus on other things since permissions and access are simplified.
- Very easy and bandwidth efficient replication allows us to comply with DR.
Qumulo was not the least expensive but we were blown away by support offered and pre-sales support to ensure questions were answered. Our main challenges were mixed end-user platforms and a diverse set of use cases on those end-user computers. Having the dual access to volumes, over NFS and SMB, helps us greatly in this area.