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Qumulo

byQumulo
in File and Object Storage Platforms
4.8

Overview

Product Information on Qumulo

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Qumulo?

Qumulo is a software designed for managing and storing large-scale file data across on-premises and cloud environments. The software offers features such as real-time analytics, scalable storage, and data management capabilities that enable organizations to monitor usage patterns, optimize performance, and manage unstructured data. Qumulo supports integration with different infrastructure, provides automated data protection, and facilitates centralized management of file storage. The software is used to address challenges in handling rapid growth of digital content and supports use cases such as backup, collaboration, and media archiving.

Qumulo Pricing

Qumulo software uses a subscription-based pricing model, where fees vary depending on storage capacity, deployment type such as on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, and additional features required. Pricing typically scales according to the volume of data managed and support options selected, and is provided on a recurring basis for access to software updates and technical support.

Overall experience with Qumulo

IT Associate
1B - 3B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Solid reliability marred by difficult hardware maintenance and impact of drive failures”

4.0
May 22, 2026
Overall, the performance and reliability of our Qumulo clusters was fine. However, it was a painful process to get all of the metadata ssds with high wear rates replaced. In general, their support team was knowledgeable and quickly responsive via Slack channel.
IT MANAGER
<50M USD, Media
CRITICAL

“Reliable storage but lacking required features”

3.0
Jun 23, 2023
Product just works, updates are stable, but there just isn't enough features for me to use it as my primary storage.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Qumulo is a company that provides solutions for managing vast amounts of primarily unstructured data. With the constant increase in data size and complexity, businesses face challenges in effectively managing their data stores across various platforms, including data centers, edge, and cloud, especially when working with limited budgets and personnel. Current solutions tend to be either overly complex or restrict users to specific, expensive proprietary platforms. Qumulo presents an alternative by offering a simplified method to manage data on an exabyte-scale, irrespective of location - edge, core or cloud- or platform. Given the global trend of expanding file quantities and the rise of zettabytes, there is a demand for a solution that offers both adaptability and simplicity, which is what Qumulo seeks to provide.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
201 - 500
Website
http://www.qumulo.com

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Qumulo Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(168 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
85%
4 Star
15%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.8

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Solid reliability marred by difficult hardware maintenance and impact of drive failures

    4.0
    May 22, 2026
    Overall, the performance and reliability of our Qumulo clusters was fine. However, it was a painful process to get all of the metadata ssds with high wear rates replaced. In general, their support team was knowledgeable and quickly responsive via Slack channel.
  • SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Transition to Qumulo Completed Smoothly Despite Some Challenges With Usability

    4.0
    Nov 15, 2025
    We just recently started using Qumulo and so far we have had no major incidents even though we moved lot's of our data from outdated systems there.
  • Engineer
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Scalable Cloud-Based Storage Solution with Exceptional Support

    5.0
    Apr 17, 2025
    It's a performant, scalable product that spans local and cloud-based data centers. Account team is on point and their support organization is second to none.
  • SR. STORAGE ENTERPRISE
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Qumulo: Providing Quality Support and Reliable Data Storage Solutions

    5.0
    Jan 23, 2025
    Qumulo provides excellent service and support to us on a consistent basis. We work with several vendors and many technologies, so it's nice to have a vendor that's accessible when you need them. Qumulo is the only vendor we have on the floor that uses the Slack product for problem determination. This makes troubleshooting so much better. We also have a dedicated account and resource team for support. The product is highly reliable and easy to administer. The product is scalable to exabytes of storage capacity without any system disruption or data migration. Once configured, the system runs without a high degree of handholding. We have had many different NAS solutions over the years. Qumulo is the best solution we've ever had.
  • DIRECTOR OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM ENGINEERI
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Reliable and user friendly!

    5.0
    Jan 24, 2025
    we looked at a few other choices besides Qumulo that were much more expensive. I’m really happy we’re working with Qumulo because the NFS share is easy and really user friendly. Reliable and user friendly! In terms of technology and software revolution, with the new version it made a big difference! Monitoring features are really cool and with every single they will surprise you with new features!
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Qumulo Likes & Dislikes

Like

Stability, general performance, management GUI

Like

Updates are painless and reliable, every feature just works, support is incredible and actually care.

Like

The prefetch AI algorithm works really well. It caches the files to be requested by user processes preemptively. Support guys are really nice to deal with. Maybe not the quickest response but they fix all the issues we raised with them. Even though some of those were us not using some features right.

Dislike

Earlier OS versions a bit buggy, painful process to replace the metadata ssds with high wear rates, failing data drive would significantly impact cluster performance.

Dislike

No de-dupe, inline compression, access zones, needs further security integration

Dislike

Ui is not always intuitive. Help docs also need a bit more refinement. Pricing policy is a bit steep.