FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS, VARS, AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS
Build a managed file services, security, and AI data business.
Stand up differentiated recurring services revenue on Panzura CloudFS delivered as a managed file service your customers don't outgrow. CloudFS is the core. Data assessments, governance, threat detection, secure remote access, and Microsoft 365 Copilot-ready data are optional services you attach when and how each customer needs them. One platform, a portfolio of services, recurring revenue that compounds as you add them.
Panzura is committed to a partner-led model. We help you build and grow the service, and we support your customer relationships rather than compete with them.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Your customers' file estates have become a problem you can solve.
Distributed file data has become too expensive, too fragmented, and too hard to manage and secure for many organizations. AI has raised the urgency — Microsoft 365 Copilot is only useful when it can reach governed, accurate, permission-safe file content.
Your customers are being asked to modernize, protect, and AI-enable their file data all at once. Most service providers lack a repeatable way to lead that work. A Panzura-powered managed file service gives you the answer. It's a practical path from modernization to resilience to AI value.
Expensive.
Aging NAS, sprawling storage, and duplicated data across silos and sites.
Fragmented.
Project data scattered across offices, job sites, locations, and clouds with no single source of truth.
Insecure.
Ransomware and insider risk against high-value project data with no behavioral visibility.
Not AI-ready.
Poorly governed for permission and policy access changes and other normal IT security practices; Essential to safely use Copilot.
THE CORE OFFERING
CloudFS delivered as a service you manage on behalf of your customers.
At the core is Panzura CloudFS, a global file system you operate as a managed service on behalf of your customers. Instead of selling infrastructure, you sell an outcome: secure, high-performance file access from any office or location, with the data governed, recoverable, and ready for AI.
Built on a true full-mesh architecture, CloudFS gives every site local-feeling performance with global consistency. It scales from a single project share to multi-site, petabyte-scale environments on the same platform. It's a service your customers never outgrow.
Local performance, global consistency
A single global namespace with real-time file locking across every site. No version conflicts, central bottleneck, and no single point of failure.
AI-powered cyber-resiliency and recovery by design
Immutable snapshots and built-in threat detection mean the service doesn't just store files. It watches file behavior and helps customers recover fast with the power of AI.
You operate it, they rely on it, you both win
You own design, monitoring, capacity, patching, and reviews. Customers get a turnkey file service and predictable subscription economics with the flexibility to grow.
Proven Results
Global partners creating real value for their customers.
Built for Serving Many Customers
Manage every customer from one place.
You're not running one deployment — you're running a book of business.
Multi-tenant management
Provision, monitor, and manage many customer environments from a single console, with isolation between tenants.
Tenant isolation and security
Each customer's data kept separate and private — the isolation regulated customers require.
Smoothly scale without truck rolls
Add sites, capacity, and customers without on-site presence — remote provisioning and lifecycle management.
A portfolio around the core. Attach what each customer needs.
None of these is a required step or a fixed sequence. CloudFS is the managed-service core; everything else is an optional service you offer when it fits. A data assessment can open a new relationship or add value to one years in. Threat detection, AI data, and data movement orchestration attach whenever the customer is ready.
A paid engagement that profiles the file estate, quantifies cost and risk, surfaces governance gaps, and recommends a path. Sell it to open a deal or to an existing customer anytime.
- Bills from day one — paid advisory work before any platform is deployed.
- Builds the pipeline — every finding scopes a follow-on managed service.
- Low delivery cost — repeatable engagement you can run again and again.
Visibility, search, audit, and recovery, plus AI-powered behavioral threat detection with automated response. Attach for regulated or ransomware-sensitive customers.
- Higher-margin add-on — security commands premium pricing over base storage.
- Deepens stickiness — customers rarely switch a provider running their security.
- Opens regulated accounts — audit and compliance unlock legal, life sciences, finance.
Connect governed file data to Microsoft 365 Copilot with full permission fidelity — no data lake, no rebuilt permissions. Attach when the customer is moving on AI.
- Strategic, board-level work — moves you from storage vendor to AI advisor.
- Multi-year engagements — ingestion, optimization, and new use cases recur.
- Hard to displace — once you own the AI data layer, you own the account.
Migrate legacy NAS and scattered file shares into the managed service, then keep data in the right tier and location over time with policy-driven movement and full visibility. Sell it as an onramp to additional services.
- Billable from move one — migration and onboarding are scoped, paid project work before service starts.
- Turns assessments into accounts — readiness finds the data; orchestration is how you win and onboard.
- Keeps billing after cutover — ongoing placement and tiering make data movement a recurring motion.
Provider-run recovery workflows, testing, and reporting on CloudFS immutable snapshots — for customers with ransomware, site-resiliency, or continuity requirements.
- Recurring testing revenue — scheduled DR drills and reporting bill on a cadence.
- Sells on defense, renews on trust — continuity is the easiest budget to defend.
- Differentiates you — managed recovery is a capability most providers can't offer.
Monthly operational, security, search, and optimization reporting. Creates recurring customer touchpoints — and surfaces the next service the customer needs.
- Merchandise expansion — every review surfaces the next upsell automatically.
- Justifies the retainer — visible, regular proof of the value you deliver.
- Protects renewals — keeps you in front of the customer all year, not at contract end.
Deployment Flexibility
Meet every customer where they are in their data journey.
CloudFS is a flexible foundation that you package into repeatable, supportable patterns. You can serve regulated, residency-constrained, and infrastructure-opinionated customers without losing the managed-service model. Each service is its own revenue stream. You don't have to sell them in any order — you sell what the customer needs, when they need it, and the relationship deepens as services accumulate.
Single-site managed NAS
Archives, regulated records, NAS refresh
Modern NAS experience with object storage, local access, and snapshots.
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Customer outcome: Modern NAS experience, lower infrastructure burden, a path to multi-site expansion.
Multi-site Collaboration
AEC, manufacturing, legal, life sciences
CloudFS nodes across sites with a standardized global namespace and locking.
- Customer outcome: Teams work on shared project data with consistent access and fewer version conflicts.
Provider-hosted GFSaaS
Customers wanting a fully managed service
You host and operate CloudFS and object storage in your environment.
- Customer outcome: Turnkey global file service with predictable economics and limited operational burden.
Customer-hosted, Provider-managed
Regulated, sovereign, infra-opinionated
CloudFS runs in the customer's cloud or data center; you manage operations.
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Customer outcome: Customer keeps control of infrastructure and data location while gaining managed expertise.
Hybrid site + Cloud/Object
LAN-speed access + durable object storage
Nodes at customer sites connected to cloud or S3-compatible object storage.
- Customer outcome: Local-feeling performance with global consistency, simplified DR, and cloud economics.
Everything you need to launch and operate.
Guided enablement to stand up your first service.
Technical and sales certification for your team.
Panzura support commitments behind your service.
Sales tools, deal registration, and resources.
The Panzura portfolio is your expansion toolkit.
You don't need all of it on day one. Land with the managed file service and add capacity as the customer relationship deepens. Panzura CloudFS is the core file system managed as a service, and the foudnation every other service attaches to.
The Provider Playbook Series
How to build a recurring-revenue managed services business on your customers' file data.
Building a managed file, security, and AI data business doesn't happen all at once — it happens one deliberate play at a time. This three-part series breaks down how to seize the opportunity, build the recurring-revenue economics, and win the AI conversation that your customers are most eager to h
Your Customers’ File Problem is Your Next Service Line
Unstructured file data has quietly become your customers’ problem. See how providers turn it into a durable managed service with Panzura CloudFS.
Land One Service and Build a Book of Recurring Revenue
Stop chasing one-off deals. See how service providers land a single managed file service on Panzura CloudFS and grow a book of recurring revenue.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Only as Safe as the Data Behind It
Copilot surfaces files employees should never see. See how service providers can stop the oversharing that stalls AI rollouts with Panzura Nexus.
Built for project-based industries and teams.
BIM/Revit collaboration, project archives, drawing sets, proposal response, field operations, and project handoffs.
- Start with: Multi-Site Collaboration + managed security + AI for proposal and project-history search.
CAD/CAE files, plant documentation, supplier collaboration, engineering change history, distributed design centers.
- Start with: Hybrid Site + Cloud + Threat Control + AI for engineering knowledge discovery.
Matter files, document repositories, e-discovery support, regulated records, and precedent search.
- Start with: Customer-Hosted/Provider-Managed CloudFS + audit + AI for matter and precedent retrieval.
Research data, trial documentation, regulated archives, lab collaboration, and sensitive records.
- Start with: Secure Managed File Service + governance + an AI-readiness assessment.
Lead the conversation your customers are already having.
Take your next step.
Talk to a Panzura expert. We'll evaluate your specific environment, show you the business outcomes you can expect, provide guidance, and help you plan your deployment.
