Data storage and data management leader, Qumulo, through its new update, simplifies the process of necessary technological upgrades. The Qumulo customers will now be able to complete the upgrade process without compromising time, money, or business operations and will have access to data during the process of upgradation. Customers can simply do rolling updates on Qumulo Core without bringing the underlying computing, storage, or networking systems offline, and this raises the standard even higher throughout the industry.
Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Product at Qumulo stated, “Our customers rely on Qumulo for speed, simplicity, and competitive advantage. With this delivery of upgrades, Qumulo extended our already minimally disruptive upgrade experience to become one of the best upgrade processes and experiences in our industry. We deliver seamless and simple upgrades that take minutes instead of days, preventing any impact to those using the cluster.”
Qumulo Core will now be able to complete the update process node reboots with no cluster downtime with the help of new upgrades. As other processes on a particular node update, stateful requests may simply be passed off to them. Core component firmware and operating systems are replaced with platform upgrades. The administrators will now be able to complete the upgrade in tandem with minimal downtime and in a non-disruptive manner with one node going offline & upgraded at a time).
“Our customers rely on Qumulo for speed, simplicity, and competitive advantage. With this delivery of upgrades, Qumulo extended our already minimally disruptive upgrade experience to become one of the best upgrade processes and experiences in our industry. We deliver seamless and simple upgrades that take minutes instead of days, preventing any impact to those using the cluster,” stated Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Product at Qumulo.
The necessity to sustain stateful processes and data access during substantial upgrades has been one of the most difficult difficulties of large-scale distributed file platforms. The solution was scheduled downtime, which had an impact on revenue and end-user happiness. With this version, Qumulo delivers non-disruptive, substantial upgrades to its Network File Storage (NFS) clients in only a few clicks. Non-disruptive updates imply no revenue loss, no time wasted restarting programs and no inconvenience to end-users or the company.
