Building a Bridge to Savings and Performance With Qumulo and Cisco
Techstrong IT, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Storage market pressure drives a Qumulo and Cisco bridge-to-cloud approach for extending workloads without migration.
Flash prices have surged over 400% annually due to AI hyperscaler demand, while hardware lead times stretch to 26 weeks.
Qumulo's Cloud Data Fabric lets organizations extend existing NAS workloads into public clouds through Cisco UCS infrastructure, using NeuralCache predictive prefetching to mask latency.
Three deployment patterns address different needs: cloud archive for legacy data, cloud-based hot edge for primary cloud storage, and hardware reuse for existing equipment. A unified namespace enables zero-copy AI access without expensive data duplication.