Overview
CloudFS Panzura's CloudFS is a hybrid Hybrid cloud file services platform that delivers a consolidated and protected global namespace to enterprises facing lack of security, visibility, and control over their data. With CloudFS deployed, users enjoy low-latency global collaboration while IT Admins can quickly understand where their data is, how it's growing, who is accessing it, how secure it is, and how it's being used - all via one easy-to-use interface. CloudFS contains a suite of intelligent, intuitive, and highly configurable tools to capture operational efficiencies and maximize widespread business value at every opportunity.
Key efficiencies include immediate global file consistency, real-time file locking for maintaining data integrity, complete ransomware resilience, HA and cloud mirroring for business continuity, and snapshots for granular point-in-time recovery. CloudFS 8.5 scales without performance degradation, holds an active FIPS 140-3 certification, and leverages AES-256 encryption in flight and at rest.
New Features in 8.5 as of 02-2025:
Regional Store: Supports up to four S3 Object Stores within the CloudFS global file system, synchronized via AWS high-speed backend network. Placing an object store in the nearest region enhances performance and reduces latency for users.
Instant Node: Provides high availability with a five-minute failover to non-dedicated hardware. If a primary CloudFS node goes down, the Instant Node feature leverages existing virtualization backup hardware to spin up a new CloudFS node, restore the metadata database from the object store, and resume file services. This option is often preferred due to its minimal hardware requirements.
Symphony
Symphony is a unified data management platform designed to harmonize the complexities of modern data. With comprehensive support for on-premises file system deployments and AWS storage, Symphony provides easy-to-use tools under a single pane of glass for file data discovery and assessment, data movement orchestration, and policy execution analysis for reporting and compliance.
Align your data operations directly with business priorities and outcomes, while ensuring the shortest time to greatest value with Symphony.
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Highlights
- CloudFS: FIPS 140-3 Certified - CloudFS 8.5 continues to meet NIST's strict security standards, and is capable of handling the most sensitive and security-conscious federal workloads.
- Symphony: Unify on-premises, private, public, and hybrid cloud object storage to effectively see, manage, and move data at scale. With comprehensive data operations under a single pane of glass, Symphony helps your teams quickly and intelligently turn data into smart decisions.
- Data Services: Panzura Data Services gives you complete visibility, always-on governance, and real-time metadata access, all from one unified data management dashboard. Invest in efficiency - and save thousands of IT hours as a result.
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Panzura CloudFS
-High system requirements for the on-premise filers caused us to have to do a lot of hypervisor system upgrades.
-Price is pretty high to license the storage and sites. particularly when you consider we pay for our S3 storage separately.
-No solution for remote mobile workers to cache files locally.
-When adding site licenses, they insist on charging a "$700 install fee" to install additional filers in new sites which only takes 30 minutes and our team has already done many of the installations without them and is fully capable of doing the installs.
-HA works but is kind of rough, you have to rebuild the edge filer after an HA event (no failback), and that process takes a long time to make sure files are consistent. Makes you think hard before triggering HA. Two different types of HA, different rules for each. Not straighforward. Even testing HA is a big deal.
-Some file types/applications don't work well with the solution (like GIS data or any really chatty files). To be fair, this is a problem with many solutions.
-We have experienced bugs in two of their General Release OS updates that broke functionality. It seems to be a roll of the dice when doing an upgrade.
-Solution is very latency sensitive, make sure your latency is below 30ms.
-They have at least two dashboards you can use to view metadata storage, they both report different capacities, one shows 75TB, the other shows 100TB.
-New filers can take a long time to build thier metadata cache, we are seeing 2 days on a 1 gb fiber internet connection, as your data grows, this only increases.
-locating where files are locked is difficult in large multi-site environments, we are developing an application internally to deal with this.
We feel the data is better protected from ransomeware and we are able to keep many more snapshots at more frequent time intervals. Restores are less complicated from any site. The ability to search across all files. Data on who is accessing which files.