Qumulo Shift opens up scale-out NAS to AWS S3 in the cloud
Summary
Distributed scale-out NAS/file system provider Qumulo has launched Shift, which converts file data held in its physical and virtual arrays into objects in Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage in the cloud. We are offering to our customers, without any extra cost, a way of having their data in both formats,” he added, in a presentation to the virtual edition of the IT Press Tour last week. But enterprises don’t want to lose file format, which is in use for the majority of their workloads.” A particular focus for Qumulo is media production, for which fast and expandable disk is needed for video rendering. It explained that this would allow video production customers access to hundreds or thousands of virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud to carry out their processing workloads. “With Shift, we are the only file system that formats and sends your data to online services while allowing you to continue to process it locally,” said Molly Presley, head of global marketing at Qumulo, who also spoke of an oil and gas sector organisation – Shell – that is particularly interested in this functionality.