Introduction to QUM

What is a QUM?

Tired of unpredictable cloud bills and rigid VM configurations? Say hello to 'QUM' Compute Unit—a game-changing model that offers fixed costs and limitless flexibility. No more guessing on how many VMs you’ll need or how your monthly cloud bill gonna look like. With Compute Units, you decide how to allocate your cloud power, while we take care of the rest.

What's a QUM?

QUM is a compute unit which is your all-in-one cloud powerhouse. One QUM offers you cloud capacity having:

• 8 vCPUs

• 20 GB RAM

• 200 GB Storage

• Unlimited Network

Buy one or more units, and deploy any combination of VMs that fits within your unit’s resources. It’s like having a customizable cloud Lego set: snap together VMs however you want, as long as they fit in the box. We are soon launching Load Balancer and Kubernetes (among other features) and they would also be able to take the advantage of capacity available within allocated compute unit.

What's the benefit of QUM?

QUM offers fixed cost billing irrespective of workload being run on it. It also allows instant elasticity to increase or reduce compute capacity as needed.

There are many horror stories out there where a misconfiguration in cloud caused a billing explosion and those mistakes are realized when the damage is already done.

With QUMs, you won't have to worry about your cloud costs.

Why was the QUM introduced?

Qumulus is on a mission to create portable cloud, far away from vendor lock-in. It would allow customers to own their cloud and a choice to them to either run on servers managed and provisioned by Qumulus Cloud or any other Data Centre of their choice or servers within their premises or even Hybrid.

So the question comes is how do we manage the pricing? Billing for every single service running in different Data Centers or customer owned hardware would introduce huge pricing complexity and unpredictability. And this a very real problem where customers are already battling with existing providers even when they are on single cloud.

There are many companies out there having business model of optimizing cloud costs for their customers.

We wanted to break this complexity so customers could focus on running their workload instead of calculating their cloud costs.

Since any service/workload to run requires 4 basic components namely Compute, Memory, Storage and Network and that's what we procure in the Data Centers. And that's how we would bill our customers so pricing and portability becomes simple!

And that's exactly what we do in our day to day life. We all use laptops, smartphones, macs, desktops. They all come with fixed compute capacity and we can run as many applications on them without incurring cost for each run of app (unless they are paid).

QUM offers the same ease, brings predictability and breaks the complexity.