Meet Qumulo
Debugging a server may mean you need a fresh rig
We all know that hardware runs the software and not the other way around, so taking a proactive approach to upgrading it and leapfrogging to newer solutions is key to any business's performance-based ethos for waste mitigation and success.
Performance isn't the only trait that needs consideration. Security is another major challenge that needs to be accounted for. Older hardware typically has well-scrutinized surfaces in combination with software and firmware running on them.
This is well known as is the accelerating enterprise level of attacks occurring typically to either achieve financial losses through disruption or using this problem in ransomware attacks. The new technology can meet the challenge by integrating OT, IoT, and IT-based platforms and the loss of air gaps and zoning. Ransomware attacks are growing exponentially in all sectors, from power stations to even hospitals. We estimate that within the next ten years, any enterprise will be specifically targeted.
Supermicro Qumulo is the future
Qumulo uses the next generation of NVMe storage solutions along with the latest NVM data protocol. In the technology industry, this is being heralded as the next memory protocol with industrial companies such as Microsoft and Facebook stating that there are no future plans to develop a new protocol to replace it.
NVM has been long-awaited with SAS and SATA only being created as intermediates. This technology now allows memory to have two-way data with no on-disk hardware for compiling data from one format to another. It is this protocol that has made NVMe storage solutions much faster than predecessors and enabled storage to no longer to rely on dated drive partitioning to assign data.
Now NVMe solutions enable big data to be divided in any configuration and assessed by more than one person at a time. This has huge benefits in the current environment where file sizes are growing with the need to meet complex and granular data needs.
AI making things better before and after a system down
Artificial intelligence can be used with the Qumulo-ready server solution to enable administrators from one console to optimize data storage and pre-emptive data delivery. Gone are the days of setting pins on drives, formatting, and partitioning them individually. Plugin the hardware, use a control console, and optimize accordingly.
Better yet servers can be configured for replication or mirroring in a cluster or hybrid arrangement, with the control software enabling you or the system itself to automatically switch during hardware failure events.
No more dealing with angry users waiting on you to act or the hundreds of tools and widgets needed to get the system running again. In addition to this once a server is repaired, the software can automatically take new or missing data and actively duplicate it to the server balancing this with network demands.
What about maintenance?
No need to worry about maintaining the system as you did in your former life. Have a database software made by a certain company that will remain nameless that takes all resources by default from a server it's been installed on.
Don't panic - you can either pretend you know what you are doing and fix this in the software or let AI resolve this. All you have to do is define what you want your AI-driven solution to do in the maintenance section.
What else can a Qumulo solution achieve?
Qumulo data platform can show you in real-time exactly what the system is doing at the petabyte level of usage, manage end-user streaming data levels remotely and give full access to system metrics and control.
Assuming you don't allow the system to raise its own overhead, you will quite clearly see this here. End users streaming YouTube at work in 4K while slowing a smaller solution down, not a problem - limit their bandwidth.
What happened to the cloud?
Most companies are coming off the cloud either partially or totally due to the recognition that their secure data is not as secure as they first thought.
Many data leaks recently and ransomware attacks are driving this movement, however at present in the mid-term companies are currently using hybridized onsite and offsite solutions to reduce their exposure to data being used by 3rd parties. In the long-term companies are resecuring their intellectual property and data onsite with some even using mobile data transfer companies to get larger data sizes to the site.
The Verdict
All Qumulo servers are scalable, modular, and fully interoperable with a 1U form factor offering. One convenient data platform controls everything from installation, maintenance, and hardware scaling. Also live switching on system downs, fast partitioning remotely and active monitoring to predefined requirements makes an administrator's life much easier.
Unfortunately, it doesn't get rid of the end-user requests, change management documentation, or tinkerers. Sooner or later, you will be going to NVM to match the industrial standard, so you might as well do it now and get an advantage over the competition, making your administration much easier.