en.Wedoany.com Reported - Qumulo announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft during the Microsoft Build developer conference, launching the Azure Native Qumulo (ANQ) service to help organizations address the chip shortage caused by the global hardware supply chain crisis. As hyperscale cloud providers absorb the vast majority of global DRAM and NVMe capacity, enterprise customers face soaring hardware prices and delivery cycles extending from months to quarters. Azure Native Qumulo, together with Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric, provides a seamless, cost-reducing cloud pathway that allows customers to burst capacity to Microsoft Azure without migrating applications or clients, while retaining enterprise-grade NAS functionality and avoiding capital expenditures and local hardware delivery delays.
Qumulo CEO Douglas Gourlay stated that in an era of scarce advanced components and steep price curves, enterprises face a choice between clinging to legacy architectures and designing flexible solutions, and Azure Native Qumulo provides a seamless cloud bridge. To ensure organizations can migrate quickly, Qumulo uses the Simple Lightweight Universal Replication Program (SLURP) to accelerate the direct migration of massive unstructured datasets from traditional NAS file systems to ANQ. SLURP employs high-performance parallel data transfer and snapshot-based synchronization mechanisms to achieve zero-downtime migration while preserving all metadata and permissions.
In the cloud, ANQ offers a zero-copy architecture with native integration of Microsoft's top-tier AI tools, including Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, and Copilot. Data remains on ANQ and is instantly accessible to Microsoft AI services without the need to copy or stage datasets, accelerating insight generation and fully utilizing GPU resources. Aung Oo, Vice President of Azure Storage Product Management at Microsoft, said that through deepened collaboration, both parties provide customers with a high-performance, cost-effective path to migrate file workloads to Microsoft Azure, accelerating innovation with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Fabric.
The partnership also introduces integration with Azure Blob smart tiering, which automatically moves data between hot, cool, and frozen access tiers based on real-time usage patterns, enabling zero-touch cost optimization with no retrieval penalties or early deletion fees. Brandon Whitelaw, Senior Vice President and Head of Product at Qumulo, stated that Smart Tier simplifies enterprise cloud storage optimization and is highly complementary to Qumulo's data services on Azure. Additionally, the recently released Qumulo NeuralProtect is first available on ANQ, providing built-in real-time ransomware and malware protection directly at the storage layer by inspecting every file on every write, stopping attacks before enterprise data is encrypted or destroyed.
Qumulo is the only vendor to be named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for seven consecutive years, managing exabyte-scale data, serving over 1,000 production customers, and trusted by Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.
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