Qumulo QC208 Hybrid Storage Appliance

Qumulo, Inc. announced the QC208 hybrid storage appliance, the second hardware product in Q-series portfolio at NAB 2015.

Qumulo Core, the company’s software solution that was introduced to the market last month, is available on a second platform for capacity-optimized large-scale deployments.

QC208 is a 4U commodity hardware appliance that provides 208TB of raw HDD capacity and 2.6TB of raw SSD capacity per node. A minimum four-node cluster provides 832TB of raw storage capacity at a low cost per terabyte and can be scaled out by adding additional QC208 nodes.

“We designed Qumulo Core to run on commodity hardware so that our customers can leverage the ongoing decline in hardware costs vs. overpaying for older, proprietary and expensive storage hardware,” said Peter Godman, CEO and co-founder, Qumulo. “The next generation of storage is all about intelligence in the software, making the new 4U QC208 hybrid storage appliance the ideal complement to Qumulo Core for larger-scale, capacity-optimized storage environments.”

Qumulo Core is a software-only solution designed to run on commodity hardware. Low-cost hardware appliances from Qumulo like the QC208 let customers take advantage of faster processors, faster networking, and higher density/lower cost SSDsy and HDDs. Customers benefit from the decreasing costs of commodity hardware and the improved price/performance in large-scale storage for unstructured data.

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Benefits of Qumulo Core include:

Real-time analytics – doesn’t just store data, but also curates and manages it.
Software-only solution – runs on commodity hardware, on dedicated appliances, or in VMs.
Flash-first hybrid design – Maximizes both price/performance and price/capacity.
SaaS software delivery model – Pay-as-you-go for continual infrastructure software innovation.
No compromise storage – Optimized for a widerange of workloads and file sizes.
100% programmable – Public and self-documenting REST API with interactive API explorer built into the web UI.

“Since Qumulo Core is designed for a mixed workload environment it behooves one to have a variety of nodes, some delivering performance and some optimized for capacity. Adding QC208 now gives Qumulo customers the latter,” said Arun Taneja, founder, president and consulting analyst, Taneja Group. “The fact that the company could deliver this model so quickly after the launch of its first product speaks volumes for the use of commodity hardware in an increasingly software-defined world.“

Core is currently in production in commercial HPC and large-scale unstructured data environments, with customers including Ant Farm, Blind Studios, Densho, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Sinclair Oil, Sportvision, TELUS Studios, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, ZOIC Studios.

QC208 hybrid storage appliance is available to order and will ship in Q2 2015.