Qumulo gets fat appliance alongside skinny fast one

Qumulo – the start-up building a better-than-Isilon scale-out NAS and staffed by Isilon vets – has launched a capacity-focused hardware product to complement its fast skinny one. Qumulo’s QC24 is a 1U appliance focused on performance, with 24TB of raw disk and 1.6TB of raw flash capacity (2 x 800GB eMLC SSDs) per node with the …

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait!

"...the start-up building a better-than-Isilon scale-out NAS and staffed by Isilon vets"

Why didn't they built it the first time?

[Doctor T]

Benchmarks

No benchmarks for their gear to be found anywhere online?

Seems to be they will to tiptoe around all the previous patents they cooked up for Isilon.

Great concept for file system, but it's missing so much. No snapshots, no smart pools, no remote replication...