Qumulo Core vs. SUSE Enterprise Storage (discontinued)

Qumulo is great for media and entertainment companies, that need simple and easy management of a NAS. The product can also scale and be sized to larger shops too. The support that comes with it also can act as an extension of internal IT. Their support is always watching the box when it phones home with hardware errors or if it would go offline. Qumulo is not initially set up well-running virtual workloads, while Vmware supports NFS, some settings need to be adjusted on Qumulo to allow for upgrades to happen while virtual machines are running

Incentivized

This is the most powerful platform that administers all our storage capacity. It has great server that distributes data from various sources to each department. It has secure database that cannot be easily compromised by unauthorised access. Data backup has given us more trust with this product since we can focus on more productive tasks. The customer support is reliable and can easily be reached when there is arising performance challenge.

Incentivized

• Support, they offer a slack based support which is fast and incredibly helpful.
• Fast releases, they release new features every 2 weeks and actively seek out improvement ideas from end-users.
• NFS and SMB co-existent support through mapping permissions allows mixed end users to connect through there native protocol.

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• Document management.
• Storage of files and data transfer.

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• Admin users are not able to be tied to SSO or LDAP accounts.
• At the start there was no RBAC but this has since been addressed.
• While there is incredible analytics, there is no native way to get historical trends by volume or user.

Incentivized

• All the features have been performing effectively.
• I have not identified any poor performing tool.

Incentivized

Their Slack-based support is like nothing I have experienced. They are fast, helpful, and willing to go the extra mile, even when an issue is not clearly their's to solve. They are committed to your success. The engineers on the Slack channel are oftentimes the engineers that programmed the very same feature you are asking questions about or having issues with.

Incentivized

Qumulo was not the least expensive but we were blown away by support offered and pre-sales support to ensure questions were answered. Our main challenges were mixed end-user platforms and a diverse set of use cases on those end-user computers. Having the dual access to volumes, over NFS and SMB, helps us greatly in this area.

Incentivized

My experience with SUSE Enterprise Storage has been great. I have not come across any powerful platform that is more reliable in data storage and backup than this software. It has great servers that monitors data across our enterprise. Data transfer from one department to other is well monitored and the network paths are always secure. Licensing and maintenance of the available plans does not incur added cost that can affect operations in our company.

Incentivized

• Reduced cost in support and upgrade times compared to old fiber San.
• Allows the Service Desk to focus on other things since permissions and access are simplified.
• Very easy and bandwidth efficient replication allows us to comply with DR.

Incentivized

• It has contributed to positive Return on Investment.
• All storage plans have been achieved.

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