I believe Qumulo is great for a storage engineer because it allows me to validate migration throughput, which is part of the real-time analytics. That helps considerably during migrations. I frequently monitor hot directories and optimize cutover, particularly with Windows, and handle petabyte-scale migrations. I also track throughput metrics including read and write per node, per client, and directory, along with protocol throughput for NFS or SMB. Regarding Qumulo's AI capabilities, I think they are doing a very good job with governance and security. The accuracy and reliability of Qumulo's AI output are great, especially when looking at AI infrastructure storage. It helps with cyber recovery in healthcare due to the growing ransomware issue. I think they are doing a fine job, and as AI quickly advances in various directions, I feel Qumulo will get even better with it. Their AI is extremely useful for migration engineering, ransomware detection, performance tuning, and determining hot file and non-directed detections. It provides insights on client behavior and predicts performance bottlenecks, giving engineers a clear perspective, along with tiering recommendations. Overall, their AI is solid and strong, and I anticipate they will grow even stronger with further developments in AI. My advice for others looking into using Qumulo is to ensure that it fits their needs, especially in media entertainment or large cloud environments that require handling petabytes of data with the ability to scale out. It is crucial to have a clear understanding of your requirements, particularly in environments like AWS or Azure. I am unsure about Google, but I know Azure is supported along with AWS. Therefore, if you are part of a media entertainment company or healthcare organization dealing with large quantities of images, it is worth considering how Qumulo integrates with your on-premises, hybrid, or cloud infrastructure. I give Qumulo a review rating of 9.
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 14, 2026
I would rate Qumulo a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. I am really satisfied with the service being offered, and it is basically value for the money. We are exploring Microsoft Azure for our hybrid environment. Please explore this option for sure; this is one of the best solutions available in the market, and even though maybe not many are using it, it is worth exploring. My overall review rating for Qumulo is 10.
I have plans to increase the usage of Qumulo in the future. We have brought it in to work with specific teams or test groups and test users, seeing how they enjoy it and how they feel about it. We have not had any complaints when we rolled it out. In certain instances, with AWS users, we have had to bring in a few kinks, maybe connectivity issues, that were resolved. It is a new rollout, but we intend to expand it in-house. I was not involved on the pricing side of Qumulo, but with HP bringing it in, my thought is they see a great deal of potential for it as it is competing with Dell EMC and NetApp in this area. So they felt that purchasing this company would make them quite competitive. My advice for someone who would use Qumulo is to probably go to their site, do some research, and communicate with some of the individuals or online salespeople to give you an idea. There are probably some guides you can obtain. I think a lot of admins would appreciate this tool, as it has the API and tools to work with the cloud, and the support team is pretty solid. You can create SMB shares and NFS shares, and it works with AD and LDAP identity services. I would say to reach out to human level support, go to their website, and do a little research on it. I think they would appreciate it. Overall, I would rate Qumulo a nine. I appreciate that it does snapshots, and you could use replication. It works with Qumulo shift and works with Amazon S3. The object store replication enables any of Qumulo file data platforms to treat a cloud object storage service as Amazon S3 as a suitable replication target, so users can copy from Qumulo namespace to a cloud store. That is great for storage, and it has quotas to enable users to control the growth of any of the subsets. I think it is something that anyone in AWS and the cloud technologies would appreciate. The file system is expandable, grows quickly, and has failure recovery. So it is a great application. I would advise anyone who is interested in it to contact the support team, and they can set up a meeting, such as a Zoom session, and walk them through it by sharing screens to give them an idea of it. HP purchased Qumulo to compete with EMC's Isilon and NetApp. So it is a solid tool. I work with both of those solutions, and what I am seeing immediately reminded me of Isilon as soon as I saw it, so I knew what was going on there. My overall rating for Qumulo is nine out of ten.
Senior System Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
May 22, 2023
We are working with the latest version of Qumulo. Planning is key. We took multiple months to plan everything, which was barely enough. Overall, I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.
Director of Product Management at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Jan 12, 2022
I would advise others to make sure they do a proof of concept or a trial. If they are using Qumulo for object-based storage, ensure that they fully test and validate both the use case as well as their operational requirements before. I rate Qumulo a seven out of ten.
CTO / Co founder at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Jul 19, 2020
The mastery of the market in this space comes down to scale and from my perspective, Qumulo and Isilon are the only two products in the market. My preference is Qumulo and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Qumulo offers an efficient and reliable file-sharing platform with real-time analytics and seamless integration with major cloud services, ensuring ease of use and high IO speed for storage needs.With its focus on file sharing, real-time analytics, and reliability, Qumulo allows for smooth operations, ease of use, and resilience. It boasts integration with AWS and Google Cloud, providing enhanced functionality with a strong operational cost-to-complexity ratio. Despite requests for software...
I believe Qumulo is great for a storage engineer because it allows me to validate migration throughput, which is part of the real-time analytics. That helps considerably during migrations. I frequently monitor hot directories and optimize cutover, particularly with Windows, and handle petabyte-scale migrations. I also track throughput metrics including read and write per node, per client, and directory, along with protocol throughput for NFS or SMB. Regarding Qumulo's AI capabilities, I think they are doing a very good job with governance and security. The accuracy and reliability of Qumulo's AI output are great, especially when looking at AI infrastructure storage. It helps with cyber recovery in healthcare due to the growing ransomware issue. I think they are doing a fine job, and as AI quickly advances in various directions, I feel Qumulo will get even better with it. Their AI is extremely useful for migration engineering, ransomware detection, performance tuning, and determining hot file and non-directed detections. It provides insights on client behavior and predicts performance bottlenecks, giving engineers a clear perspective, along with tiering recommendations. Overall, their AI is solid and strong, and I anticipate they will grow even stronger with further developments in AI. My advice for others looking into using Qumulo is to ensure that it fits their needs, especially in media entertainment or large cloud environments that require handling petabytes of data with the ability to scale out. It is crucial to have a clear understanding of your requirements, particularly in environments like AWS or Azure. I am unsure about Google, but I know Azure is supported along with AWS. Therefore, if you are part of a media entertainment company or healthcare organization dealing with large quantities of images, it is worth considering how Qumulo integrates with your on-premises, hybrid, or cloud infrastructure. I give Qumulo a review rating of 9.
I would rate Qumulo a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. I am really satisfied with the service being offered, and it is basically value for the money. We are exploring Microsoft Azure for our hybrid environment. Please explore this option for sure; this is one of the best solutions available in the market, and even though maybe not many are using it, it is worth exploring. My overall review rating for Qumulo is 10.
I have plans to increase the usage of Qumulo in the future. We have brought it in to work with specific teams or test groups and test users, seeing how they enjoy it and how they feel about it. We have not had any complaints when we rolled it out. In certain instances, with AWS users, we have had to bring in a few kinks, maybe connectivity issues, that were resolved. It is a new rollout, but we intend to expand it in-house. I was not involved on the pricing side of Qumulo, but with HP bringing it in, my thought is they see a great deal of potential for it as it is competing with Dell EMC and NetApp in this area. So they felt that purchasing this company would make them quite competitive. My advice for someone who would use Qumulo is to probably go to their site, do some research, and communicate with some of the individuals or online salespeople to give you an idea. There are probably some guides you can obtain. I think a lot of admins would appreciate this tool, as it has the API and tools to work with the cloud, and the support team is pretty solid. You can create SMB shares and NFS shares, and it works with AD and LDAP identity services. I would say to reach out to human level support, go to their website, and do a little research on it. I think they would appreciate it. Overall, I would rate Qumulo a nine. I appreciate that it does snapshots, and you could use replication. It works with Qumulo shift and works with Amazon S3. The object store replication enables any of Qumulo file data platforms to treat a cloud object storage service as Amazon S3 as a suitable replication target, so users can copy from Qumulo namespace to a cloud store. That is great for storage, and it has quotas to enable users to control the growth of any of the subsets. I think it is something that anyone in AWS and the cloud technologies would appreciate. The file system is expandable, grows quickly, and has failure recovery. So it is a great application. I would advise anyone who is interested in it to contact the support team, and they can set up a meeting, such as a Zoom session, and walk them through it by sharing screens to give them an idea of it. HP purchased Qumulo to compete with EMC's Isilon and NetApp. So it is a solid tool. I work with both of those solutions, and what I am seeing immediately reminded me of Isilon as soon as I saw it, so I knew what was going on there. My overall rating for Qumulo is nine out of ten.
We are working with the latest version of Qumulo. Planning is key. We took multiple months to plan everything, which was barely enough. Overall, I rate Qumulo an eight out of ten.
It's a good option to go with because it's easy to use and it saves time. Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
I would advise others to make sure they do a proof of concept or a trial. If they are using Qumulo for object-based storage, ensure that they fully test and validate both the use case as well as their operational requirements before. I rate Qumulo a seven out of ten.
Overall, this is a good product and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
The mastery of the market in this space comes down to scale and from my perspective, Qumulo and Isilon are the only two products in the market. My preference is Qumulo and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.