Qumulo Valuable Features
Qumulo has improved the way my organization functions in several ways. One of the biggest improvements was authentication, which is a security feature for SMB and FTP. We set up the clusters for Qumulo, and the main spaces are accessed seamlessly for Windows and Linux, which we were using it for. That layer of authentication was great. Depending on who you are working with, we were using either standard LDAP or another directory. I work with a number of different compute end users in connecting the data files. For example, with it being a NAS, we were able to move beyond traditional NAS limitations. Different groups could access these files and authenticate through Active Directory, Windows, Mac, or Linux, and the security feature really helped a lot as far as authentication.
The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.
View full review »The best features Qumulo offers include linear scale-out, real-time analytics, multi-protocol cloud-native replication for AWS and Azure, API-driven management, and snapshots and replication, which are particularly useful in the healthcare industry and other sectors in media and entertainment.
Real-time analytics in Qumulo help me see what is going on within the environment, keeping me ahead of things.
You can use Qumulo SQS, cluster deployment, and node expansion, which are excellent for scaling out if needed.
Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by making it much easier. The snapshots and replication, along with the cloud-native replication running on HP and Dell, work on Azure and AWS, which helps considerably, especially with those being the two biggest cloud-driven systems.
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SwapnilDaga
Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The best features Qumulo offers include a very simple management interface, good visibility into storage utilization and file analytics, and it is scalable and reliable.
I find myself appreciating the file analytics the most because our customers continually ask about the unstructured data they have, such as how many files they have, how many volumes they exist, and which user is consuming how much storage. Those kinds of analytics are difficult to obtain once we have petabytes of data.
Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by simplifying storage management while providing a single, scalable platform, reducing administrative efforts, making storage growth easier to manage, and allowing users to experience consistent performance. Visibility into storage consumption also helps with capacity planning. We have definitely seen reduced administration effort, faster provisioning of new shares, better visibility into utilization, and high availability.
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Qumulo
July 2026
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One of the best things I love about Qumulo is the performance and the support available. They are easy to reach, and you can send them a Slack message with Level 3 engineers available to help you within seconds.
We use Qumulo on a day-to-day basis, and there are no specific examples of how it stood out, but it is robust, and we did not have any problems, and no problems is a good sign in IT.
Qumulo can do many more things, and the team at Qumulo is also adding new features and capabilities to it.
View full review »The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability. No failover is available in Qumulo by default, but we discussed it with our Qumulo contact and enabled a failover. If we have a disaster with our file server, nothing is recoverable. However, with Kumolo, we have a failover and a second cluster standing dormant.
View full review »The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability.
View full review »The valuable features include ease of use, the ability to update without downtime and speed, particularly IO speed in the storage and file systems.
View full review »The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable.
View full review »The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good.
View full review »The most valuable feature is real-time analytics. The data that you receive from the storage, such as the IOPS, is an essential feature. This is the main competitive advantage against the other products on the market.
Qumulo can be integrated with AWS or Google Cloud.
View full review »The feature that I like most is the analytics part of the file system. It offers good insight into the process including what and where things are happening, including which users and what files are involved.
They have implemented the most important features and they're steadily enhancing it. The update schedule and roadmap are such that every two weeks, there are new features being released.
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Qumulo
July 2026
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