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It's a service product. Whenever you write data and want to save it to the cloud, the Panzura mediator acts as the go-between.

It's a good product, and I learned a lot when I was at Panzura. It's a file-based product.

There's one feature in Panzura called 'Master Snapshot'. It's very useful for recovering files because you don't need to go back to old backups. You can just restore from the master snapshots.

Panzura uses a single namespace. It's mainly used for compression, deduplication, drive files, snapshots, data synchronization, metadata, data impressions, and various performance optimizations. There are filers involved – one master filer, and the rest are additional filers.

The main thing in Panzura is that there are three key components: PanFS, NAS, and collaboration. These are strong features, and a big benefit is that you can access everything from anywhere.

Master Snapshot feature is the only exceptional feature, but the rest of the features are similar to other storage solutions.

I have been using it for a year. 

I worked for Panzura in 2022. Now, I train people on Panzura. So by training people, I have hands-on experience with the tool. 

It has been a stable solution. 

When I was in Panzura, there were around 200 users using it globally.

I have friends who still work at Panzura. If I get stuck, I usually ask them first and try to resolve issues myself.

The initial setup is not time-consuming. It's easy to deploy. 

But, we need to be aware of the networking aspects. We should have a good understanding of basic networking concepts like NAS.

You'll need to deploy the filers – that's essential for accessing Panzura's features.

I used to work for Panzura, and I can train people on it if anyone's interested.

If you're considering Panzura, I'd actually recommend looking into DDN products. They're very stable. In fact, they're launching Infinea, which is totally cloud-based and uses Lambda and Kubernetes. It's a very good product.

If you have basic IT concepts, it's very easy to understand. But if you're not familiar with NAS things and networking protocols like SMB or Linux, then it might be a bit difficult for new users. Linux understanding is very important to use Panzura. 

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. Master Snapshot feature is the only exceptional feature, but the rest of the features are similar to other storage solutions.

Generally, I use AWS Storage Gateway to reduce the cost of the S3 and caching.

A data pipeline tool would be more beneficial for data authentication and DataOps.

I have been using AWS Storage Gateway for more than eight years.

AWS Storage Gateway is a stable solution.

AWS Storage Gateway is a scalable solution.

In my experience, cloud storage is better in AWS. I have a lot of data storing experience in AWS and have worked a little on Google storage. AWS and Google storage are more or less equal, but retrieving and managing the data with AWS is easier.

AWS Storage Gateway makes it easy to secure and fetch the data and convert it into a query-based solution. We don't need to create any projection about the spare storage.

I have developed some Python scripts for data archiving. We used to do it through our own script because the skeleton of the data is very different. I want to understand how we can use AWS's data build tool.

A data pipeline tool would be more beneficial for data authentication and DataOps. Data, like real-time or market-driven data, comes from different sources. All this data needs to be more structured so that the application can query and benefit from it. The solution's performance is good.

Different kinds of data come from multiple sources, and some analyses are performed on them. Because of using the data, we are used to giving insights into the requirements of our business solutions. So, a lot of things depend on our product. I can see how everything works because of the code of conduct. Overall, the cloud makes it easier to design architecture-level things.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.