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The 2022 Tech Innovator Awards
Rick Whiting
From among more than 260 applicants, CRN staff selected products spanning the IT industry – including in cloud, infrastructure, security, storage and devices – that offer ground-breaking functionality, differentiation and partner opportunity.

Storage: Cloud
Winner: Qumulo on Azure
Qumulo on Azure is a petabyte-scale data platform delivered as a managed service in the cloud. Qumulo significantly enhanced its cloud capabilities on Azure in June 2022, utilizing its patented serverless storage technology, improving efficiency and providing cloud file storage that is said is 44 percent lower in cost than competitive file storage solutions on Azure. Qumulo on Azure scales to multiple petabytes and billions of files in a single namespace, offering 25 percent faster performance than competitive alternatives for data-intensive cloud applications and high-performance workloads. Customers can scale from 3 GB to 20 GB and the multiprotocol file system supports workloads across Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems.
Finalists:
DataCore Bolt 1.0
Lightbits
Nasuni File Data Platform