Stop asking where your data lives. Ask if it can move.
For the last decade, enterprises have treated data location as a one-time, binary decision. You pick a cloud region or a data center and you build around it. That instinct made sense because moving large amounts of data was slow, expensive and painful. In many environments, it still is. What has changed is the infrastructure market around that data, which is now shifting faster than most procurement cycles can keep up with. Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric breaks that dependency today by making data more portable and large-scale movement simpler, faster and less disruptive. Enterprises with that flexibility can respond faster to changing economic conditions, rely less on any single infrastructure supplier and gain more leverage with both on-premises and cloud providers.
Data gravity still matters: applications and compute tend to move toward wherever data already sits because moving large datasets can be costly and slow. Historically, that reality encouraged a...
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