Qumulo Garners Industry Recognition for Company Growth, Corporate Culture, Product Innovation and Outstanding Leadership

Data-Aware Storage Startup Closes 2015 With Prestigious Accolades From Entrepreneur, GeekWire, the Puget Sound Business Journal and Others


SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Dec 1, 2015) - Qumulo, pioneer of the world's first data-aware scale-out NAS, today announced its continued industry recognition with the receipt of several new prestigious awards that underscore its dedication to customers, employees, company growth and product innovation in a competitive market.

Most recently, Qumulo nabbed a coveted spot on Entrepreneur's 2015 Top Company Cultures List for successfully instilling a high-performance culture in its workplace. Further demonstrating a one-of-a-kind corporate culture that encourages, inspires and empowers employees, Qumulo was also recognized as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal's 2015 Washington's Best Workplaces, winning Gold in its category.

In addition to its company culture, Qumulo was also awarded for its outstanding leadership. Its co-founder and vice president of engineering Neal Fachan was named a Puget Sound Business Journal's 40 Under 40 honoree for his entrepreneurial spirit and desire to leave a lasting impact on the world with software that will change the enterprise forever. The annual list highlighted top innovators and business leaders under the age of 40 from the Puget Sound area who are excelling in their industry and demonstrating dynamic leadership.

Additionally, Qumulo was selected by GeekWire and the Museum of History and Industry as a winner of the 2015 "Seattle 10," a roundup of the 10 hottest and most promising startups in the Seattle region. Business Insider recently named Qumulo on the list of "50 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career on in 2016."

"At Qumulo, we believe that extraordinary success requires an extraordinary team and environment," said Peter Godman, co-founder and CEO of Qumulo. "We invest daily in our culture by building a tight knit group of brilliant minds who like to have fun, enjoy working together and who are driven by our magnetic field -- our customers. 2015 has been a milestone year for us and we are thrilled to enter 2016 with accolades of this stature."

Since emerging from stealth in March 2015 and introducing its flagship solution Qumulo Core™, the world's first data-aware scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), Qumulo has been named a finalist and winner of many other company and product awards, including TechTarget SearchDataCenter Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards, CRN 2015 Emerging Technology Vendors, Network World Fave Raves 2015, Enterprise Management Associates' "Vendor to Watch" and OnCloud 50 Companies to Watch.

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About Qumulo
Qumulo, headquartered in Seattle, pioneered data-aware scale-out NAS, which enables enterprises to manage and store enormous numbers of digital assets by building real-time analytics directly into the file system itself. Qumulo Core is a software-only solution designed to leverage the price/performance of commodity hardware coupled with the modern technologies of flash, virtualization and cloud. Qumulo was founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, and has attracted a team of storage innovators from Isilon, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. Qumulo has raised $67 million in two rounds of funding from leading investors. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

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