Dell PowerStore vs Qumulo comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 7, 2024

Qumulo and Dell PowerStore compete in the advanced data storage solutions category. Qumulo may have the upper hand due to its flexibility and scalability, while Dell PowerStore impresses with innovative data reduction technologies and performance capabilities.

Features: Qumulo is known for its real-time analytics, scalable file storage, and seamless integration with cloud environments. Dell PowerStore offers automatic data tiering, advanced storage efficiencies, and innovative data reduction technologies.

Room for Improvement: Qumulo could improve its data protection features and integration with certain backup platforms. It also lacks some advanced management tools found in other solutions. Dell PowerStore may benefit from enhancing ease of setup for less technical users. Some of its enterprise-grade features could be simplified, and initial configurations require significant time investment.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qumulo emphasizes a straightforward deployment process and proactive, personalized customer service. Dell PowerStore involves more complex initial setup with advanced configurations, supported by comprehensive documentation and a robust support network.

Pricing and ROI: Qumulo typically offers a cost-effective setup with quicker ROI through lower initial and operational costs. Dell PowerStore’s higher initial investment is balanced by long-term benefits in data-heavy environments, providing efficiency gains and extensive enterprise-grade features.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerStore vs. Qumulo Report (Updated: November 2026).

Dell PowerStore vs. Qumulo

November 2026

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

5.3

Dell PowerStore offers substantial ROI through data savings, improved infrastructure, cost efficiency, and ease of management and upgrades.

Sentiment score

6.8

Qumulo enhances productivity and user satisfaction by simplifying file management, increasing uptime, and optimizing workloads across industries.

If you purchase storage with 300 terabytes, you can easily achieve one petabyte of effective capacity.

AdnanAli Khan

Regional Sales Manager at New Horizon Computers

It's been trouble-free the entire time, with very high performance, as it has been designed and built properly.

reviewer2709102

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen a return on our investment in Dell PowerStore; definitely our cost per terabyte has been very good compared to some of the other vendors that we would have been using previously, and our performance benchmarks have exceeded what we were expecting.

Eoin O’Brien

Director of Global Platform at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Qumulo is a revenue competitor with Isilon, NetApp, Ampere Stewart, and PowerScale, so this is HP's purchase to compete with those particular companies.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The capabilities for handling high throughput unstructured workloads and executing petabyte-scale migrations are paramount for media and entertainment or healthcare, where they can reduce the burden of long nights spent on migrations.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

We have seen a return on investment in the reduction of storage administration effort.

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Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.7

Dell PowerStore customer service is valued for responsiveness and expertise, despite occasional delays and post-merger quality decline.

Sentiment score

8.9

Qumulo customer service is praised for 24/7 availability, responsiveness, expertise in cloud and NAS, and effective issue resolution.

I would rate the technical support of Dell PowerStore between nine and ten out of ten.

Tiby Thomas

Solution Architect at CDA

They're responsive, knowledgeable, and have a quick turnaround.

reviewer2598762

Systems Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell support as a ten, focusing on that aspect alone, because it's what allows me to sleep at night.

Alan Farrely

Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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These professionals possess deep expertise in cloud deployments and NAS migrations, ensuring that I am speaking with knowledgeable individuals.

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Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

I rate customer support for Qumulo as excellent, giving it a 10 for its top-tier service in response, resolution, and overall attention to customer needs.

Oscar Ortega

Computing Junior at a media company with 1-10 employees

I would rate Qumulo's tech support as a 9 out of 10.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.6

Dell PowerStore offers scalable, flexible expansion options with NVMe enhancements, ideal for organizations seeking ease of use and VMware compatibility.

Sentiment score

7.4

Qumulo is highly scalable, efficient for large data environments, enhancing performance without disruptions, popular in media and healthcare sectors.

The solution's scalability is a ten out of ten.

Amjed Antari

Pre Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It scales up and scales out both ways, and as our data keeps growing, it is very easy to just keep attaching and keep growing.

Nikhil Desai

Associate Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scaling up can be done from a single enclosure that already has two controllers to a maximum of four storage units with up to eight controllers, and a massive amount of storage can be added.

KiewietKritzinger

Nutanix at Senior System Engineer

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This linear scale allows for multi-petabyte workloads, which is essential for both media and entertainment as well as healthcare's image management.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

It is really scalable and easy to use for our end users.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Scalability is one of the strongest features.

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Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Dell PowerStore is highly reliable, with strong uptime, robust support, minimal issues, and exceeds enterprise stability expectations.

Sentiment score

8.4

Qumulo is highly stable with minor performance issues mainly due to workload management, earning strong user confidence.

When I removed all the cables, it failed over within five minutes.

reviewer2707638

Consultant

It's quite stable and reliable in general.

reviewer2794212

Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I have not experienced any downtime, bugs, or glitches, and it's much better than previous technologies.

Mohammed Ajmal

Storage Backup Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I can confidently say it is highly stable.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

A lot of performance issues also depend on how the workload is handled.

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

I would rate the stability of Qumulo as a nine.

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Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Room For Improvement

Dell PowerStore users seek better pricing, NAS capabilities, integration, flexibility, UI design, support, analytics, and security features.

Qumulo users seek automation, API integrations, non-disruptive upgrades, UI enhancements, compatibility fixes, and pricing adjustments for improved performance.

Pricing must also be considered, as Dell PowerStore is quite expensive compared to competitors in the market like HPE Alletra, Huawei Dorado, or Hitachi storage, for example.

Kashif-Naseer

Unit Head - Technology Services at Shahnawaz Ltd

The main reason why people move to Pure Storage is because it's simplified.

Kevinsa Heng

IT Director at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Price is a deterrent to scalability.

reviewer2707638

Consultant

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It programs very easily. There are REST APIs, and there is a cloud connection.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Overall, it is a solid tool that works very well on-premises and in cloud environments.

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Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

If we get into an issue, hardware says, 'Talk to software, Qumulo,' and Qumulo says, 'Talk to Dell.'

Naved Siddique

Sr Infrastructure Engineer at American Express

Setup Cost

Dell PowerStore provides a comprehensive but costly licensing model, with discounts for partners and savings from data compression.

Enterprise buyers find Qumulo's pricing reasonable, valuing its straightforward licensing, competitive setup costs, and satisfactory vendor assistance.

Based on my experience, the cost of Dell PowerStore for around 500 GB of capacity is very competitive compared to any other platform in the market.

SachinSharma6

Director at Wipro Limited

I asked for a new quotation on a server, and it is quite expensive; it is really expensive.

Nicolas Philippe

Responsable Plateformes Et Cloud at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We question that quite often because they have been increased by thirty to thirty-five percent every quarter for unexplained reasons, and that definitely does not go down well with customers.

Erhan Parlaz

Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group

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The pricing setup cost and everything was the lowest compared to other competitors.

reviewer2871183

System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The pricing is on the premium side.

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Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Pricing is expensive; that was the one thing, but it is an industry standard in the animation industry or film industry.

Aguloy Anonymous

Manager of IT Corporate Software at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Valuable Features

Dell PowerStore offers ease of use, VMware integration, high performance, data reduction, cybersecurity, and automated management for enhanced efficiency.

Qumulo provides scalable, secure file sharing with real-time analytics, easy management, and seamless integration with cloud platforms.

The faster the back-end storage, the quicker the entire application performs.

reviewer1663719

System Administrator at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I consolidated all the data into a single dashboard accessible via Dell PowerStore Manager, which improves performance and IT infrastructure.

AhtishamAhmad

Manager, IT Infrastructure at SNSKIES PVT LTD

Due to the low latency on IOPS, it helps us with our critical apps that cannot afford delays.

reviewer1876119

Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

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The most valuable feature in Qumulo is the scaling feature, as Qumulo file data platform is optimized for scale, so we could support petabytes of data, billions of files, millions of operations, and thousands of users.

Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

They are easy to reach, and you can send them a Slack message with Level 3 engineers available to help you within seconds.

reviewer2871183

System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Qumulo has positively impacted my organization by simplifying storage management while providing a single, scalable platform, reducing administrative efforts, making storage growth easier to manage, and allowing users to experience consistent performance.

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Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerStore

Ranking in NAS

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

249

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (7th), Enterprise SAN (1st), All-Flash Storage (1st), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (1st)

Qumulo

Ranking in NAS

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File and Object Storage (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Dell PowerStore is 8.1%, down from 10.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qumulo is 3.6%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

NAS Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell PowerStore	8.1%
Qumulo	3.6%
Other	88.3%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2304864

Vmware Windows Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Resilience has supported proactive management and secured audit readiness across multiple sites

The resilience in Dell PowerStore benefits my company from an auditing perspective because we know we have that resilience in place. I see Dell PowerStore playing a bigger role in the future because we are starting to use it more, and that is pushing it. The biggest return on investment for me when using Dell PowerStore is scalability. Scalability is key. I can amplify that scalability is the biggest return on investment because we have redundancy between two sites; if something goes down, we have to manage it, but we want to do it proactively.

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reviewer2536608

Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

UI has simplified pixel data insights and cost savings while hardware lifecycle still needs work

There is an option I would like to see. Instead of installing a separate Grafana server to get the telemetry data, why can we not set up the same capability in the UI itself? Then we could choose the retention period of the log and get everything inside the Qumulo dashboard itself, rather than installing a separate Grafana server, because we need to maintain a separate server to collect these metrics. There is one more needed improvement I noticed. If you compare Qumulo to Dell Isilon as a vendor, a patch update with Dell Isilon covers the hardware as well. In Qumulo, however, you have to maintain the hardware lifecycle and the software separately. This means every time you update your server, you have to update two entities: one is the hardware and the other is Qumulo. So it might be quite challenging. A great deal of time is also involved for an engineer to do both of these things, so I do not think Qumulo can directly integrate with the hardware so that we can update the Qumulo software together with the hardware patches. Right now, I do not have any other improvements needed for Qumulo that I have not mentioned yet.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	83
Midsize Enterprise	49
Large Enterprise	124

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

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Overview

Dell PowerStore is a scalable, high-performance platform supporting both modern and traditional workloads, enhancing IT operations with AI-driven automation and advanced data reduction features.

Designed for flexibility, Dell PowerStore integrates seamlessly with VMware, providing robust security and high IOPS. Users benefit from fast NVMe storage, intelligent data management, and scalable performance to handle diverse workload demands. However, improvements are needed in replication, enterprise functionalities, and UI complexity. Stability and support issues highlight the need for enhanced monitoring and pricing strategies.

What are the key features of Dell PowerStore?

Advanced Compression: Optimizes storage capacity effectively.
Data Deduplication: Reduces redundant data, improving efficiency.
Scalability: Easily adjusts to growing business needs.
VMware Integration: Enhances virtualization performance.
AI-Driven Management: Simplifies IT operations.
NVMe Storage: Provides fast, reliable access to data.
Robust Security: Ensures data protection.

What benefits does Dell PowerStore offer?

High Performance: Supports demanding applications with high IOPS.
Flexible Design: Adapts to changing workload requirements.
Cost Efficiency: Promotes ROI through data reduction and scaling.
Enhanced Management: Streamlines operations with AI and integrations.
Improved Data Handling: Efficiently manages databases and storage.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and IT, Dell PowerStore is critical for VMware virtualization, high-performance databases, and backup storage. It supports hosting virtual machines, mirroring storage, and handling SAP and Oracle databases effectively. Its role in hybrid and on-premises setups showcases its adaptability and integration capabilities for mission-critical tasks.

Dell Technologies

Qumulo offers an efficient and reliable file-sharing platform with real-time analytics and seamless integration with major cloud services, ensuring ease of use and high IO speed for storage needs.

With its focus on file sharing, real-time analytics, and reliability, Qumulo allows for smooth operations, ease of use, and resilience. It boasts integration with AWS and Google Cloud, providing enhanced functionality with a strong operational cost-to-complexity ratio. Despite requests for software upgrades and better support for certain protocols, it remains a competitive choice for centralized media storage and object-based storage solutions.

What are Qumulo's most important features?

File Sharing: Offers seamless file sharing capabilities.
Reliability: Ensures stable and dependable operations.
Ease of Use: Designed with user-friendly interfaces.
Real-Time Analytics: Provides immediate insights and data analysis.
No Downtime Updates: Supports upgrading without interruptions.
Failover Capability: Allows disaster recovery operations.
Cloud Integration: Compatible with AWS and Google Cloud.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Performance: High IO speed in storage systems.
Cost Efficiency: Benefits from operational cost-to-complexity ratio.
Data Insights: Detailed analytics on processes and usage.
Integration Potential: Easy integration with cloud and backup platforms.

Organizations in marketing and entertainment industries rely on Qumulo for managing files, media storage, and archiving needs. On-premises deployments are common for centralized media storage, facilitating object-based storage for videos, images, and office data support. The solution appeals to solution providers and resellers seeking market presence with application versatility.

Sample Customers

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County of Riverside Sheriff Department, Hyundai Mobis Automotive North America, University of Arizona, UCSD - San Diego Supercomputer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Sinclair Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Kaiser Permanente, Deluxe Creative, Vexcel Imaging, University of Florida, The Madison Square Garden Company, Arizona State University, Cinesite, San Diego Padres Baseball, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, IHME, EllieMae, Washington State University.