Qumulo Wins Future’s Best of Show at NAB 2026, Cementing Its Lead in AI-Era Media Infrastructure

The award recognizes innovation in managing massive, AI-driven media workflows across hybrid cloud environments in the media and entertainment industry.

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI—Qumulo Inc., the enterprise leader in unstructured data management and provider of cloud data platforms, has been named the recipient of Future’s Best of Show Award, presented by ITPro, at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The award, judged by a panel of engineers and industry experts against criteria including innovation, feature set, value, and real-world application, places Qumulo among an elite group of technology providers shaping the future of broadcast, streaming, and content production.

A Critical Inflection Point

As studios, broadcasters, and streaming platforms grapple with an explosion of high-resolution content and the distributed production pipelines needed to deliver it, the infrastructure challenge has never been more acute. Qumulo’s Data Platform was singled out for its ability to meet that moment head-on.

Purpose-built for the data-intensive demands of modern media and entertainment workflows, including post-production, animation, visual effects, gaming, and live broadcast, the platform enables organizations to manage petabyte-scale volumes of 4K and 8K content across billions of files, spanning on-premises, edge, and cloud environments simultaneously.

Eliminating the Bottlenecks That Slow Production

What sets Qumulo apart is its ability to solve a problem that has quietly cost the industry millions in lost time: the need to physically copy or move massive files between dispersed locations before creative teams can work on them.

“As media production becomes increasingly distributed, Qumulo allows globally dispersed creative teams to collaborate on the same datasets in real time, eliminating the need to copy or move massive files between locations,” said Brandon Whitelaw, Senior Vice President of Product at Qumulo. “Qumulo stands alone in being able to manage all data — in the cloud and on premises — and deliver that data anywhere in the world in seconds or less, making it ideal for media and entertainment and many other industries. This approach supports faster production cycles while reducing operational complexity.”

“The products nominated for the NAB Best of Show program provide an outstanding overview of new technology on the NAB show floor and shine a spotlight on the very best,” said the ITPro awards editorial team.

To learn more about the Qumulo Data Platform and Qumulo’s award-winning solutions for Media & Entertainment, please visit: ​​https://qumulo.com/industries/media-entertainment/

About Qumulo

Qumulo is the enterprise-grade platform built to power the world’s most demanding workloads. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises, Qumulo manages, stores, curates, and protects data at scale — unlocking new possibilities across media and entertainment, healthcare, scientific research, energy exploration, autonomous systems, and public sector intelligence. The only seven-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File and Object Storage, Qumulo is the foremost provider of cloud data platforms. One Platform. Any data. Any location. Total control. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

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Qumulo Communications Team

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