Qumulo Presents at Cloud Field Day 23

Reimagining Data Management in a Hybrid-Cloud World with Qumulo

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The presentation by Qumulo at Cloud Field Day 23, led by Douglas Gourlay, focuses on the challenges and opportunities of modern data management in hybrid cloud environments. The presentation emphasizes the need for a unified, scalable, and intelligent approach across both on-premises and cloud infrastructures. The speakers prioritize customer stories and use cases to illustrate how Qumulo’s unique architecture provides enhanced performance, visibility, and simplicity for organizations.

A key theme of the presentation is the importance of innovation, specifically in addressing the evolving needs of customers. Qumulo focuses on unstructured data, highlighting its work with diverse clients, including those in the movie production, scientific research, and government sectors. The presentation highlights how Qumulo’s approach enables both data durability and high performance, particularly in scenarios involving edge-to-cloud data synchronization, disaster recovery, and AI-driven data processing.

The presentation showcases how Qumulo enables freedom of choice by supporting any hardware and any cloud environment. Their solutions are designed to manage large-scale data, extending file systems across various locations with strict consistency and high performance. By leveraging cloud elasticity for backup and tiering, Qumulo offers cost-effective options for disaster recovery and provides the agility to adapt to changing business needs.

Personnel: Douglas Gourlay

Seamless Business Continuity and Disaster Avoidance with Qumulo

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This Qumulo presentation at Cloud Field Day 23 focuses on delivering business continuity and disaster avoidance through its platform. Qumulo leverages hybrid-cloud architectures to ensure uninterrupted data access and operational resilience by seamlessly synchronizing and migrating unstructured enterprise data between on-premises and cloud environments. This empowers organizations to remain agile in the face of disruptions.

The presentation dives into two main approaches. The first leverages cloud elasticity for a cost-effective disaster recovery solution. By backing up on-premises data to cloud-native, cold storage tiers, Qumulo allows for near-instantaneous failover to an active system. This approach utilizes the same underlying hardware performance for both active and cold storage tiers, enabling a rapid transition and incurring higher costs only when necessary. This is a more cost-effective alternative to building a complete, on-premises continuity and hot standby data center.

The second approach emphasizes building continuity and availability from the ground up. By deploying a cloud-native Qumulo system, the presentation highlights the benefits of multi-zone availability within a region, offering greater durability and resilience compared to traditional on-premises setups. Qumulo’s data fabric ensures real-time data synchronization between on-prem and cloud environments, with data creation cached locally and then instantly available across all connected locations. This offers significant cost savings and operational efficiency by eliminating the need for traditional replication and failover procedures.

Personnel: Brandon Whitelaw

Seamless Business Continuity and Disaster Avoidance: Multi-Cloud Demonstration Workflow with Qumulo

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Qumulo presented a demonstration at Cloud Field Day 23 that showcased seamless business continuity and disaster avoidance in a multi-cloud environment.  The core of the presentation centered on simulating a hurricane threat to an on-premises environment, highlighting Qumulo’s ability to provide enterprise resilience and cloud-native scalability. Brandon Whitelaw demonstrated how Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric enables disaster avoidance through live application suspension and resumption, data portal redirection, cloud workload scaling, and high-performance edge caching with Qumulo EdgeConnect.  This allows the safe migration of data and applications to the cloud, ensuring continued access and continuity in the event of a disaster.

The demo’s primary focus was on illustrating the ease of transitioning data and operations to the cloud during a simulated disaster scenario.  The process involved disconnecting the on-prem cluster and, using a device like an Asus Nook, accessing data seamlessly from the cloud. This seamless switch allowed government employees to continue their work at an off-site location. This was achieved through data portals, which enable the efficient transfer of data, with 90% bandwidth utilization.  It demonstrated the ability to maintain user experience by removing the need to change user behaviors or adopt new protocols.

Finally, Qumulo’s approach offers high bandwidth utilization, and integration into a multitude of customer use cases, all while ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity during the process.  They showed how edits made on the cloud could be instantly consistent with the on-prem solution. They were able to quickly and effectively restore data access to users after the storm,  Qumulo emphasized that the architecture allowed businesses to be proactive, moving data to the cloud days before a disaster, reducing the reliance on last-minute backups and promoting a more flexible, scalable approach to business continuity, and with the upcoming support for ARM, and the focus on multi-cloud, Qumulo allows for a great deal of flexibility in how a business manages its data.

Personnel: Brandon Whitelaw, Mike Chmiel