Open Storage Lifts Off With Cumulus, HPE Partnership

Along with stuffed turtles, Cumulus Networks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today launched open storage networking into the stratosphere with a new partnership. “The combination of Cumulus Linux and NetQ with HPE’s M-Series Ethernet Switches now provides organizations a more open, flexible networking fabric that is predictable, scalable, and reliable to help drive businesses forward,” said Josh Leslie, CEO of Cumulus Networks in a prepared statement. Cumulus Linux is the company’s Linux-based operating system, and NetQ is its performance monitoring product. The new partnership makes Cumulus Linux and NetQ available on HPE’s StoreFabric M-Series ethernet switches. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and IoT represent an influx of data being generated across sectors — and require robust networking capabilities in companies’ data centers.