What is Panzura Cloud File System?

Panzura’s global cloud file system CloudFS is a distributed file system incorporating network acceleration technology, specifically designed to accommodate highly latent remote object stores, and able to overcome the limitations preventing organizations from successfully integrating cloud storage into their infrastructure. The result is a multi-cloud file services platform that enables high performance tiered NAS, global file collaboration, ransomware resilience, active archiving, backup, and DR across all an organization’s locations.

Panzura's global cloud file system CloudFS provides a single authoritative data set held in cloud object storage, with immediate global data consistency and local-feeling file performance across all locations. Data from all legacy storage instances is consolidated, de-duped and compressed, significantly reducing the overall unstructured data footprint. All data is managed under a single global file system, simplifying user interaction and system administration while tying into organization applications and targeting both local disk and the cloud. Panzura empowers organizations with immunity to ransomware, allowing rapid recovery in the event of attack, minimizing loss of data, time or productivity and removing the need to pay a ransom.

The features of Panzura Cloud File system includes:

  • Global File System and Global Namespace: These two aspects combine together to enable seamless access to and expansion of all storage managed by Panzura systems.

  • Cloud Integration: The Panzura Global File System improved on other mainstream file systems in a number of ways, in particular by building native support for cloud storage.

  • Dynamic File Locking: Panzura developed an efficient, innovative dynamic file locking system that enables global file sharing without the risk of data collision or corruption.

  • Military-grade Encryption: To ensure security of data sent to and stored in the cloud, Panzura applies military-grade AES-256-CBC and SSL v3.1 encryption behind the corporate firewall for data at motion and at rest in the cloud with all keys controlled by IT.

  • Global Deduplication: Panzura developed a unique form of fast, powerful inline deduplication that removes redundancy across sites, as opposed to just within a single site, to prevent duplicate files from being stored in the cloud globally.

  • User-managed Snapshots: Users can execute and self-manage up to 10,000 snapshots per controller, providing unmatched flexibility and rapid recovery without IT involvement.

  • Pinning and Intelligent Caching: Panzura Controllers leverage pinning and caching to make sure certain data is always rapidly accessible and to protect users from variations in cloud access speed.

  • Access Control: Granular access control lists empower administrators to determine who has access to what files when those files contain sensitive data.