Qumulo Expands Lead in M&E Business

Qumulo, Inc. continues to increase customer adoption, use case diversification, and global expansion across the global M&E industry.

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Following momentum during its FY22, where it saw a customer base expansion of more than 40%, and added over 200 new customers to its roster, the company includes 9 of the world’s top 10 M&E companies among its more than 1,000 enterprise customers. Qumulo continues to stand apart for production workload capabilities that make it easy for M&E companies around the world to manage unstructured data at scale.

As the M&E industry continues to adopt cloud and virtual collaboration, Qumulo’s flexibility of deployment, simplicity, and efficiency of management at petabyte scale is cementing the company as the storage software for in-house and remote creative work teams. From major film studios, streaming networks, gaming and production houses, to animation, post production and VFX companies, The vendor helps innovators capture, collaborate and distribute creativity for audiences all over the world to enjoy.

“Data has never been more important. For M&E companies, it holds the power to transport us to new worlds captured in the minds of innovative creative teams such as animators, visual effects creators and post production teams,” said Ben Gitenstein, VP of product. “Qumulo’s modern infrastructure removes limitations and scales to meet the most demanding performance requirements, allowing customers to accelerate innovation and increase collaboration. We can manage, store and protect EBs of file data, whether in on-prem or cloud environments and that is why customers continue to choose Qumulo, and why we excel in industries like M&E.“

The Qumulo file system provides reliable data access to speed creativity and collaboration, as well as management, storage and protection for petabyte scale 4K and 8K content and beyond across on-prem, and public cloud environments. It is designed to provide support and visibility for billions of files, with scalability to enable rapid growth and expansion.

M&E studios around the world use different Qumulo solutions – from AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q, to the Qumulo real-time analytics dashboard.

“Qumulo on AWS gives us the performance gains needed over object stores and the ability to use our highly-active file data at any scale in the cloud. Qumulo, with its capacity-based consumption options, allows our line of business and IT teams to work together on our digital projects without compromising on choice of how we manage our unstructured data or control costs,” said Graham Peddie, COO, Cinesite. “Qumulo has enabled us to boost Cinesite’s competitive position within the industry.“

“Since we deployed the Qumulo File Data Platform, the game changed. The platform lets us spin up one thousand computers within minutes, not days or weeks. This advantage is just the start. We are confident we can scale to three thousand nodes. The cloud-based solution allows us the flexibility to switch over faster and provide the power that our artists need,” said Curtis Linstead, system administrator, Raynault VFX.

“Qumulo’s analytics dashboard allows us to quickly see what folders are using the most space and identify the bad actors to see who’s eating up bandwidth. As an admin, you don’t realize how important that is until you’re faced with it. We can quickly find where the biggest offenders are. To be able to look at the entire file system – to crawl the 19 million files we had at the time, took about eight hours previously. Now, it’s instant,” said Saham Ali, VP of technology, Falcons Tree House, LLC.

“The size of the movies we are working on is growing. If we double the amount of production, we do it times four because the images will be larger. This means it will be x8 the amount of disk space needed to do all of this. This is why Qumulo is a very good solution for us. It is very simple to add new modules and to have the storage grow,” said EDI Effeti Digitali Italiani CEO, Franceso Grisi.

Qumulo enables M&E customers to take advantage of: