<s>
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
American	O
data	B-General_Concept
storage	I-General_Concept
company	O
based	O
in	O
Seattle	O
,	O
Washington	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Founded	O
in	O
2012	O
,	O
it	O
offers	O
products	O
and	O
services	O
to	O
help	O
other	O
companies	O
manage	B-General_Concept
and	O
curate	O
large	O
amounts	O
of	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
March	O
2012	O
by	O
Neal	O
Fachan	O
,	O
Peter	O
Godman	O
,	O
and	O
Aaron	O
Passey	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
of	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
's	O
key	O
employees	O
are	O
also	O
former	O
Isilon	O
employees	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
an	O
18-month	O
development	O
period	O
in	O
2013	O
–	O
2014	O
,	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
began	O
selling	O
its	O
products	O
in	O
August	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Before	O
entering	O
the	O
development	O
period	O
,	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
employed	O
18	O
people	O
which	O
increased	O
to	O
90	O
by	O
February	O
2015	O
and	O
to	O
150	O
employees	O
in	O
January	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
remained	O
secretive	O
about	O
its	O
product	O
offering	O
until	O
March	O
2015	O
,	O
when	O
it	O
finally	O
offered	O
specific	O
details	O
of	O
its	O
software	O
,	O
describing	O
it	O
as	O
a	O
"	O
data	O
aware	O
"	O
storage	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2016	O
,	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
hired	O
Bill	O
Richter	O
to	O
succeed	O
Godman	O
as	O
CEO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
raised	O
$30	O
million	O
additional	O
funds	O
in	O
April	O
2017	O
and	O
$93	O
million	O
in	O
June	O
2018	O
,	O
bringing	O
it	O
total	O
funding	O
to	O
$230	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Citing	O
economic	O
conditions	O
and	O
getting	O
the	O
company	O
to	O
profitability	O
,	O
on	O
June	O
29	O
,	O
2022	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
laid	O
off	O
80	O
employees	O
,	O
approximately	O
19%	O
of	O
its	O
workforce	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Aaron	O
Passey	O
,	O
who	O
helped	O
launch	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
back	O
in	O
2012	O
,	O
returned	O
to	O
the	O
Seattle-based	O
data	B-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
company	O
in	O
2022	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
develops	O
storage	O
software	O
for	O
file-based	B-Application
data	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
software	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
with	O
on-premise	O
data	O
centers	O
on	O
Qumulo	B-General_Concept
's	O
network-attached	B-Application
storage	I-Application
hardware	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
on	O
Hewlett	O
Packard	O
Enterprise	O
Apollo	O
and	O
Dell	B-Device
PowerEdge	I-Device
R740xd	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2018	O
,	O
the	O
firm	O
announced	O
an	O
update	O
to	O
its	O
software	O
adding	O
machine	O
learning-powered	O
pre-fetch	B-General_Concept
to	O
anticipate	O
which	O
files	O
the	O
user	O
will	O
most	O
likely	O
access	O
next	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
preemptively	O
caches	O
files	O
identified	O
by	O
analyzing	O
user	O
behavior	O
and	O
patterns	O
in	O
file	B-Application
access	I-Application
.	O
</s>
