Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
“For enterprise customers, a viable cloud solution is one that directly enables high-value business objectives, namely improved costs, scale, availability, and truly global access to data, while fitting seamlessly into their existing infrastructure. Panzura Global Cloud Storage System 3.0 brings these ‘NetApp in the sky’ type capabilities to the enterprise, combining the familiarity of enterprise-level NAS with the holy grail of anytime, anywhere file sharing.” — Steve Duplessie
451 Research
“Panzura has developed a new storage paradigm that could transform data management strategies by putting enterprise NAS capabilities into its cloud onramp appliances. The new features of Panzura 3.0 expand the scalability and performance of the platform and fortify its position as an enterprise on ramp to private and public cloud storage. The rapid growth of unstructured data and the desire to make this content available to a globally-distributed workforce are two major problems for organizations which Panzura’s global deduplication and file locking technologies can potentially address.” — Henry Baltazar
Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
“The value proposition for Panzura is both straightforward and compelling; customers get the benefits of the cloud (gaining economy, scale and flexibility) without its downsides (losing control, functionality and performance). While consumers might overlook those downsides, enterprises will not. Panzura offers a route to true enterprise-class cloud storage for collaboration, data protection and active archive; it is based on a globally-distributed file system together with a local controller and cache, and it offers all the sophisticated NAS features (encryption, file locking, snaps, deduplication, etc.) that enterprise users demand, while maintaining levels of performance and protection at or above what business requires.” — Mark Peters
Network Computing
“While very small organizations can use Dropbox or Sugarsync to replicate files between locations, and create a backup copy while they’re at it, those services don’t provide the scale or level of service even a midsize company needs. Panzura is another valuable tool in my storage architect’s toolkit, and I can see myself using it in situations with and without a private cloud back end.” — Howard Marks
Storage Switzerland
“Panzura fills a pressing need in the enterprise, providing high performance global access to data sets regardless of location. This is ideal for workloads that need to be processed by users and teams spread around the world globally. Leveraging the cloud to provide an enterprise sync of large data sets or a true global file system is a much needed solution in the enterprise.” — George Crump and Eric Slack, Senior Analysts
Wikibon
“As far as differentiation goes, take a look at Panzura. The Panzura Controllers are very fast, offering line speeds that match those of public cloud storage networks, and are feature heavy—with built-in support for CIFS, NFS, File Locking, Versioning, Snapshots, Compression, Dedupe, Cache—and the product supposedly works. It’s not a lab experiment that’s not ready for prime time and it’s not a low-end, scalability-challenged box with little more than a cool name going for it.”
