One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential.

The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available.

Initially, the failover was supposed to be implemented in Qumulo itself. This failed to happen mid-case, so we had to devise a middleman solution. It was not the cleanest of solutions, but we did get something that worked. Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo.

In the next release, I would like to see maybe the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system using more standard UNIX commands.

This product is not available in the Azure marketplace, which is not a good thing.

The price of the software is a bit expensive, so a reduction in cost would make it more competitive.

There is plenty of room for improvement.

In the future, I would like to see non-disruptive updates.

Switching our or replacing nodes should be easier to do.

The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations.

Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities.