Alternatives to Qumulo Core

Ceph

Ceph is for organizations and developers that can deploy and manage distributed storage clusters on their own hardware.

MinIO AIStor

AIStor suits organizations building AI data infrastructure that need object storage alongside persistent agent memory and Iceberg tables.

MooseFS

Community is described as suitable for development, evaluation, and smaller deployments.

StarWind Virtual SAN suits SMB, ROBO, and Edge deployments seeking shared storage software with high availability from two nodes.

OpenEBS

OpenEBS suits developers and platform SREs running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, including databases, observability stacks, or CI/CD.

DataCore SANsymphony

It is aimed at organizations managing storage across SAN or hyperconverged environments, from high-performance deployments to backup and replication targets.

SeaweedFS

SeaweedFS may suit teams needing object, table, and POSIX file storage in one cluster.

It suits organizations needing distributed storage across Linux or self-hosted infrastructure.

It suits organizations that need to combine storage across servers and manage replicated data on premises.

Longhorn

Longhorn suits teams running Kubernetes that need distributed block storage, snapshots, backups or cross-cluster recovery.

JovianDSS is aimed at organizations building storage for NAS, SAN, backup, continuity, or disaster recovery.