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Qumulo offers free cloud software
to help fight COVID-19 outbreak
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umulo is offering its cloud-native
file software, for free, to public
and private sector medical and
healthcare research organisations that are
working to minimise the spread and impact
of the COVID-19 virus. geographies. Qumulo’s software works
seamlessly with the applications medical
and healthcare researchers have been using
for decades, as well as Artificial Intelligence
and analytics services more recently
developed in the cloud.
Effective immediately, Qumulo is making its
software in the public cloud available free of
charge through to July 2020 to organisations
combatting the COVID-19 outbreak. “Using Qumulo’s software to manage and
understand petabytes of data in real-
time, medical and research organisations
around the world can work together and
leverage the power of the cloud and hybrid
environments to fight COVID-19,” said Bill
Richter, President and CEO of Qumulo.
“This virus requires every organisation that can
make a difference to do so right now and band
together to solve this problem with all available
technology resources and the smartest minds
on the planet collaborating seamlessly.” n
Researchers and clinicians are working day
and night to learn more about COVID-19.
Organisations are building tools to track
its spread and to develop containment
and eradication measures, including the
development of a vaccination. The public
cloud is critical to enabling actionable
results, fast.
Matt McIlwain, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Centre and Managing Partner at
Madrona Venture Group, said: “Research
and healthcare organisations across the
world are working tirelessly to find answers
and collaborate faster in their COVID-19
vaccine mission.
“It will be through the work of these
professionals globally, sharing and analysing
all available data in the cloud, that a cure for
COVID-19 will be discovered.”
At a time when every minute matters for
the public health of the global community,
research organisations need the ability to
launch workloads with large amounts of
compute power to analyse large datasets
using their trusted applications for research.
With Qumulo’s cloud-native file and data
services, organisations can do that in the
cloud to capture, process, analyse and share
data with researchers distributed across
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