The Qumulo Stratus Architecture Webinar
Doug Gourley, CEO of Qumulo, joins Brandon Whitelaw and CTO Kiran Bhageshpur to discuss Qumulo’s shared-nothing architecture.
Qumulo Stratus: A Secure, Multi-Tenant Data Platform Built for Scale
Stratus lets divisions, workloads, and business units share infrastructure without sharing risk. Cryptographically isolated multi-tenancy, independent performance and capacity scaling, and exabyte-scale reach — all running right in your own data center.
How Qumulo Stratus Works:
Stratus separates compute and storage into independently scalable layers — so every tenant and workload gets exactly the performance and capacity it needs, without borrowing from anyone else's.
Stratus Accelerators
Stateless, high-performance compute nodes that run the Qumulo file system and handle all the heavy lifting (NFS, SMB, S3, and encryption).
Stratus DataCore
A shared, durable, and massively scalable storage foundation optimized purely for capacity and cost-efficiency. Think of it as your own private hyperscale object store.
Zero-Trust Data Isolation
Cryptographically enforced multi-tenancy ensures complete separation of workloads. No shared trust boundaries, even on shared infrastructure.
Independent Scaling of Performance and Capacity
Give every tenant and workload exactly the performance and capacity it needs — scaled independently, so one team's growth never forces another to over-provision.
Cloud-Like Elasticity On-Premises
Dynamically scale performance in seconds with a consumption-based model — bringing cloud agility and cloud economics to your own data center, with the isolation an enterprise environment requires.
Consolidated Multi-Tenant Platform
Give every division, workload, or business unit its own secure, governed environment — without standing up separate storage silos. Stratus pairs shared infrastructure with shared-nothing data access, so isolation and control travel with each tenant.
Freedom from Lock-In
Run Stratus on-prem, in the cloud, or across both, without committing to a single hardware or cloud provider. Your data strategy can evolve — your infrastructure choices stay yours.
Operational Simplicity at Scale
One platform, centrally managed, serving every division and workload on your terms. Less time policing shadow IT and storage sprawl, less complexity, lower total cost of ownership.
Customer Outcomes That Actually Matter
Cloud Economics, Zero Lock-in
Stop paying for stranded capacity or idle compute. Mix high-performance NVMe for AI with low-cost HDDs for archive on one platform. Scale Accelerators up or down in under 90 seconds—no disruption.
Evict the “Noisy Neighbors”
In shared environments, one workload can degrade everything else. Stratus assigns dedicated Accelerator clusters to each tenant or workload, ensuring complete performance isolation for critical applications.
Zero-Trust, Cryptographically Assured Multi-Tenancy
Stratus doesn’t just separate data—it secures it. Each tenant has dedicated encryption keys, and data is encrypted before reaching shared storage, ensuring complete isolation and zero visibility across tenants.
Exabyte Scale Without the Growing Pains
Unify unstructured data from every division, workload, and location into a single global namespace, without merging their security boundaries. Scale to exabytes while delivering the performance each tenant needs, exactly when it needs it.
One Platform. One Partner. Experts on Standby.
No ticket queue. 24/7 support from engineers who understand multi-tenant architectures, performance isolation, and large-scale data infrastructure. Real humans. Real answers. Backed by the expertise your team demands.
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Qumulo Stratus - An Overview Whitepaper
An overview of Qumulo Stratus—a fully disaggregated, shared-nothing, multi-tenant data platform built for hybrid and multi-cloud at exabyte scale.
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