The ability to scale seamlessly in the background is the talk of the industry. Innovations from businesses such as Qumulo Inc. help make raw data into specialized outputs. 

Qumulo, a data storage company that helps organizations manage and curate large data sets, has made strides in staying a leader in that space. 

“Where we see most coming out now is customers really struggling with trying to figure out how to modernize these workloads, to be able to buy the base and rent the peak of private and public cloud, and be able to have the same simple, seamless, scalable experience for that data anywhere they want to put that data, where it’s demanded of them,” said Brandon Whitelaw (pictured), vice president of strategic partnerships at Qumulo,

Real-time visibility, scale and accurate control of your data are where Qumulo leads in its field. On the topic of customer needs, Whitelaw remarked that they want simplicity, efficiency, the ability to consolidate more workloads and have fewer things to manage. On the other side, that same organization is trying to funnel as much money as possible into agile, flexible, next-gen workloads and have those deployed, again, wherever it makes the most sense at that time.

Whitelaw spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and Lisa Martin at the recent HPE Discover event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed storing and managing data wherever it is on a single software platform and the benefits of running on the cloud or infrastructure of choice or a hybrid topology. (* Disclosure below.)

Hybrid for the win

As decentralization is growing into a more common practice, the demand for scaling not only vertically, but horizontally has grown en masse. Qumulo’s future is in the hybrid topology, according to Whitelaw. Creating a data-first modern environment that allows for storing and managing exabytes of data in the core, edge and cloud is complex.

“If I just zoom out a bit from the data center, and now I’m looking at edge and cloud and multicloud, it’s really being able to scale that same experience and capability in any of those domains,” Whitelaw said.

The three priority hyperscalers with on-prem environments are the same goal for hybrids: the same performance, flexibility and agility. The demand for resources is where some environments fail to perform with excellence, Whitelaw explained. A simple, powerful storage solution that can scale data anywhere is a sought-after feature with many organizations. As for Qumulo, the company has perfected its craft to improve services in the cloud and on-prem.

“It’s actually just the same. In fact, in some circumstances, faster performance in the cloud than on-prem,” Whitelaw said. “And with what HPE has done from a flexibility and agility and cost modeling perspective, they’re really combining the best of both worlds. And from a technology perspective, we’re a perfect fit there.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE/Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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