Qumulo Core Reviews & Product Details

Qumulo is the breakthrough leader in simplifying unstructured data management at massive scale across hybrid-cloud environments. Qumulo provides a high-performance file data platform designed to store, manage and create workflows and applications with data in its native file form. Qumulo’s File Data Platform is both future-proofed and seamlessly works with existing applications and technologies: It enables customers to easily manage the full data lifecycle from ingestion, transformation, publishing and archiving with cost-effective capacity, dynamic scalability, automatic encryption, real-time analytics, and an advanced API so they can easily integrate Qumulo into their technology ecosystem and workflows.

Seller

Qumulo

Discussions

Qumulo Core Community

Languages Supported

English

Overview by

Qumulo Team

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

38 months

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User Insights

Average based on 19 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

4 months

Qumulo Core Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Qumulo Core, and what problem is it built to solve?

Qumulo Core is a data storage and management platform built to handle the scale and complexity of data-intensive workloads. It is designed to manage billions of files and large volumes of data across on-premises and cloud environments.

What languages does Qumulo Core support?

Qumulo Core supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Qumulo Core the best fit for?

Qumulo Core’s strongest fit is with mid-market and enterprise organizations, with the most industry presence in media production and broadcasting. The leading segments are:

Mid-market organizations (51–1,000 employees)
Enterprise organizations (more than 1,000 employees)
Media production
Broadcast media

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Kevin F.

Sr. Network Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 10/12/2021

"Qumulo array review"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

After the setup of the system, I spend less than 1 hr a week logging into the multiple arrays and checking them to make sure everything is going well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

The worst part of owning the arrays is doing the firmware updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher W.

Senior Data Center Operations engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/16/2021

"Qumulo Review by Christopher Wilmot"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

The response time to speak to a technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

After using Qumulo for a few years, I still have not found anything I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt D.

IT Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2021

"Qumulo a scalable high performance file system that is easy to deploy and manage"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Having worked with other storage platforms for number of years, Qumulo is a breath of fresh air, it is is simple to deploy and simple to manage. The UI is simple and straightforward to use and the documentation takes you through every thing you need to do, step by step. From receiving the equipment on site, deploying, migrating 200TB of data and bringing the system into production, all of it was completed in days.

The best feature is being able to see where your data is, how big it is and how its grown, it allows me to provide valuable insights to the business.

Their support is via Slack, has been a very good experience with a quick and helpful response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

So far after 4 months I haven't found anything to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Make sure you understand your performance requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Qumulo to consolidate 4 separate file systems to one and to provide disaster recovery and business continuity by replicating data to a remote Qumulo system.

The benefits were:

Reduced Power consumption and cooling requirements

Reduces space needs (8U vs 36U)

Simplified admin

Greater performance, single tier, so no need to move files around

Overall reduced TCO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

kevin m.

IT infrastructure supervisor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/4/2021

"Great storage for Media and Entertainment companies"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

The support, cannot rave about it enough, they have become an extension of our service desk. They are very helpful and responsive. The model they use is Slack-based so you simply chat in Slack and are talking directly to the engineers about your issue.

The software is also very simple and well documented, the REST API is fully featured since the web interface is built on top of it.

Onboarding was incredibly easy and they had an engineer to help us get started.

They are also a heavy agile shop so updates come out every 2 weeks, with the option for a quarterly roll-up, they are very active in seeking out end-user feedback on features and direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Early on there was no RBAC support and upgrades had to be planned due to outage of file services. Those have all been fixed, not much I can say I dislike. They are not the most expensive in the marketplace but also not the cheapest.

During implementation we ran into issues with how they implemented SMB 2.1 protocol, so we worked with engineering a lot and had to revert a lot of users to NFS while some users were able to stay on SMB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

I would highly recommend them over any other company, the support is what is the best part, one of our concerns going from block level fibre channel to NAS was performance and interoperability with Adobe products. We have not noticed issues and have not missed a beat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a very expensive fibre channel SAN which made it very hard to scale and upgrade. We are in a season of aggressive growth - 25-35 TB a year so adding storage with Qumulo is easy.

Also understanding storage is easy - the metadata they provide helps me understand heavy users in terms of IOPs and storage breakdown and growth.

Also as workloads mix across devices having a NAS vs a SAN is helpful for a simple sharing experience, Qumulo also does a good job with SMB and NFS sharing at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 10/14/2021

"Qumulo Core Storage"

4/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Qumulo has best-in-class support for its products. The web interface is modern and provides excellent analytics for monitor the health and performance of the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Lack of NFS-v4 ACLs is something on the roadmap but not yet implemented. Overall I am happy with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adem Y.

Storage System Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2021

"New Game Changer Qumulo"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

User friendly GUI and easy upgrade process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

S3 protocol is not supported. I hope it will come in the future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"Scalable file system and high performance"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Simplicity, visibility, performance and scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

not much to dislike with regards to technology could offer better pricing as this is always a constraint for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dave L.

IT Lead | Business Applications and Desktop Support

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great hybrid-capable storage solution - upgrading from Isilon"

5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

No tree walks, easily have storage on prem and in the cloud with replication across the platforms. They have migration solutions available to make it an easy swap from your old system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

I haven't seen any down sides yet. If I had to say anything, maybe cost? However, the cost is reasonable for what you get and it was cheaper than Isilon, so we haven't seen any reason to go think about another solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qumulo Core:

Get a demo now! It may not be the best fit for everyone, but this was a great solution for a small to mid size business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qumulo Core solving and how is that benefiting you?

No tree walks, so it's much easier to filter through the data. Being able to create a hybrid storage environment from day 1. They have migration solutions available so it's easy to move from an old/different system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2021

"Speed of work"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Qumulo Core?

Speed and versatility of the system. Using something this robust has really taken our work to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qumulo Core?

Errors that offset work and delay our production schedules. Support side has been helpful but can often confuse my team who are not IT peeps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.