Panzura announced
the launch of its Panzura Freedom 8 multi-cloud file services platform. Panzura
Freedom 8 delivers key advancements in performance, scale, cloud data
protection, central management, search, analytics and mobile access in one
global cloud-native file system.
Panzura Freedom 8 makes it easy to migrate apps and data to the
cloud without re-write. It fuels significant productivity gains for globally
dispersed teams collaborating on games, buildings, software, cars, amusement
parks or other large-scale projects. Panzura Freedom 8 also delivers advanced
file security and cloud data protection with industry-first Cloud Mirroring -
mirrors data to two or more clouds - while lowering costs by up to 70% for
managing the explosive growth of unstructured file data. Together with
Panzura's Vizion.ai multi-cloud data management service, customers can create
one view of enterprise data to search, analyze and control that data across the
enterprise.
"As a multi-billion-dollar global engineering and design firm with
over 30,000 employees and partners worldwide, speed and team productivity are
critical to delivering world-class billion-dollar designs for our customers.
With Panzura Freedom, we deployed one global cloud filesystem across all global
sites, enabling engineers and designers to collaborate as one global team,
dramatically increasing productivity and improving our bottom line," said
Henrik Carlberg, Business CIO of ÅF, an engineering and consulting company for the energy, industrial
and infrastructure markets.
Unlike other global cloud file systems that force customers to
split file data into multiple disconnected volumes due to scale, performance
and file locking limitations, Panzura Freedom 8 is the only solution that provides
the Power of ONE without limits:
- One
Global Cloud File System: Provides globally connected data fabric for
applications, machines and people and eliminates copy data sprawl and data
islands by consolidating file data into a single source of truth.
- One
Global Experience: Ensures consistent, fast access to data from anywhere
in the world.
- One
Collaborative Team: Delivers faster team performance and significant
productivity gains accelerating time to market for projects of all sizes.
- One
Vision of Data: Enables the ability to search, analyze and control data to
drive intelligent business decisions and improve data security and
compliance.
- One
Bottom Line Result: Increases productivity of teams while reducing file
storage cost by up to 70 percent, yielding higher profitability.
"Panzura is the only company to deliver the Power of ONE promise
with Freedom 8," said Patrick Harr, CEO of Panzura. "Unlike others that require
splitting the global file system into completely segregated volumes of
disconnected apps, machines, data and people, Freedom 8 unifies everything into
one global cloud file system and one collaborative ring. This means that our
customers realize huge productivity gains, lower their cost of managing
unstructured file data and improve their overall profitability."
Breakthrough capabilities of Panzura Freedom 8
- Performance
- 4X increased throughput for read/write operations to the public cloud
and 20Gbps front-end throughput per Freedom Filer virtual machine means
Panzura Freedom 8 can service the most demanding I/O for NFS and SMB
file-based applications, machines and users.
- Scale
- No limits for the number of global sites in one global filesystem with
3X faster metadata sync performance using Panzura patented SmartSynch
technology along with 2X improvement in metadata space consumption. In
addition, single filers now support 5,000 connections and hundreds of
thousands of connections in a cluster.
- Cloud
Data Protection and Availability - Cloud Mirroring of data to two or more
clouds provides auto-failover protection and business continuity. Cloud
Mirroring protects against business disruption from cloud outages,
accidental deletion of cloud buckets and doubles cloud storage
availability. In addition, automated failover for local and global high-availability
(HA) filers keep services running without disruption.
- One
Portal Management - Granular REST API for fully automated deployment,
configuration and management of all Freedom filers, including performance,
health and status metrics. Single portal for monitoring statistics for all
filer nodes worldwide, including central, customizable alerting
capabilities.
- Search
and Analytics - Visualize, index, search, audit and analyze Panzura
Freedom 8 file data with Vizion.ai.
- Mobile
Access - Real-time and Enterprise File Sync and Share Services (EFSS)
access to Panzura Freedom 8 for mobile application users. Includes full
Mobile Device Management (MDM) support with ability to revoke access
immediately or auto-expiration.
Panzura
Freedom 8 delivers multi-cloud freedom to
choose the best cloud provider and deployment options - dark site private,
hybrid or in a public cloud - based on requirements. Freedom 8 is FIPS 140-2
certified and provides customer key management for the highest levels of
security and control.
Panzura Freedom 8 will be
available starting in mid-July.