Data management firm Qumulo to create 50 new jobs with Cork expansion

US-headquartered company said its new Cork hub will focus on R&D and customer success

Pictured from L-R at the the announcement that Qumulo is expanding its presence in Cork Dave Coughlan, Qumulo VP, Customer Success; Kiran Bhageshpur, Qumulo CTO; Anne-Marie Tierney Le-Roux, IDA Global Head of Technology and Consumer, Content & Business Services; Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Department of Transport Jerry Buttimer TD and Diarmaid Hogan Qumulo Director, Engineering. Pic Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

Data manager and cloud platform provider Qumulo is expanding its Irish operations with the launch of its European Software R&D hub in Cork.

The opening will see over 50 new jobs created across R&D and customer success in the next three years. 

Seattle-headquartered Qumulo was founded in 2012 and specialises in data storage, data management and cloud computing, with more than 1,000 production customers.

Speaking on the company's latest expansion, Qumulo's chief technology officer Kiran Bhageshpur said: "After actively reviewing a wide variety of options for our second R&D centre, we found that the stellar third-level institutions in the South-West were the basis for a deep talent pool in Cork."

For Qumulo's global customers, this new site in Cork will also see an expansion of its Customer Success team in the region.

“Additionally, the excellent support infrastructure for companies like Qumulo provided by IDA Ireland made Cork the obvious choice for us to build a team focused on leveraging AI to help businesses manage global-scale data infrastructure," Mr Bhageshpur added. 

Minister for enterprise, tourism and employment, Peter Burke TD, said: “Qumulo’s decision to establish a new European software R&D hub in Cork is a strong endorsement of Cork as a location where cutting-edge engineering and global ambition meet. 

"It highlights the depth of talent emerging from our universities, the strength of the region’s technology ecosystem, and Ireland’s ability to support companies delivering pioneering innovation on a global scale."

Qumulo said its new R&D and customer success hub in Cork is a recognition of the challenges and opportunities presented by the new global, digital landscape. 

The new Cork team will research and develop solutions to enable the secure transfer of exabyte-scale workloads across the globe, as well as deliver data requirements to power next-generation enterprise applications.

Diarmaid Hogan, engineering director at Qumulo, said the company's establishment in Cork "is a statement of the ambition of Qumulo to continue its growth to meet customer demand, and Cork’s capacity to deliver on that future with the talent base and ecosystem to drive innovation. Building and growing a European Hub for R&D is the next chapter in Qumulo’s already exciting story.” 

The company's latest expansion into Cork was supported by IDA Ireland, with chief executive Michael Lohan adding: "Ireland offers a compelling combination of talent, research excellence, and an open, collaborative business environment, and Qumulo’s expansion in Cork is another example of how that proposition continues to resonate with global technology companies.”