Qumulo, a simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere, announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can provision the service on demand to power file-based workloads in the cloud that require high performance and low latency such as: video editing for media and entertainment; subsurface modeling for oil and gas; vendor neutral archives for health care imaging; and genomic sequencing for life sciences among many others.
A five-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Qumulo helps customers to scale their data with the tools, protocols, and frameworks of their choice.
“Most companies today are not exclusively storing their data on-prem or in the public cloud. They need to be able to leverage the best environment without extra complexities or limitations,” said Kiran Bhageshpur, CTO of Qumulo. “With Azure Native Qumulo, we’ve made the procurement and deployment process truly frictionless and added predictability to the costs. By providing this level of elasticity, we’re helping companies be responsive to their own business needs without the fear of over-provisioning.”
Azure Native Qumulo enables customers to move and manage data between data centers and the cloud with singular management experience and the same level of control. By taking advantage of the Azure portal’s self-service options, customers can deploy the storage capacity they need when they need it, in minutes. It also helps them avoid the risk, expense, and burden of refactoring workloads and applications.
“Unstructured data workloads are a focus area for customers on Azure,” said Jurgen Willis, VP of Azure Optimized Workloads and Storage at Microsoft. “By offering Qumulo as an Azure Native ISV service, we’re helping to address additional customer use cases in the market with the simplicity and scalability of Qumulo’s true enterprise-grade multiprotocol file system.”
To help companies keep their data safe, Azure Native Qumulo also provides Active Directory and Azure AD SSO integration, encryption at rest by default at rest and in transit, and deep insights down to the file or user level.
