Dell PowerStore vs Panzura CloudFS comparison

Dell Technologies and Panzura are both solutions in the NAS category. Dell Technologies is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7, while Panzura is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.7. Dell Technologies holds a 10.4% mindshare in N, compared to Panzura’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Panzura users who would recommend it.

Dell PowerStore

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96% willing to recommend

Panzura CloudFS

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90% willing to recommend

Dell PowerStore

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

Panzura CloudFS and Dell PowerStore compete in the advanced storage solutions market. Panzura has the upper hand in collaboration and centralized data access, whereas Dell PowerStore leads in scalability and performance for enterprise environments.

Features: Panzura CloudFS offers unique functionalities such as single namespace access, compression, deduplication, and file-locking, enhancing data protection and workflow efficiency. Meanwhile, Dell PowerStore integrates seamlessly with VMware, supports NVMe, and provides intelligent data reduction along with data resilience and cybersecurity capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Panzura could enhance remote access and integrate Active Directory more efficiently. Cost management and support responsiveness are areas needing attention. For Dell PowerStore, improvements are needed in monitoring capabilities and NAS functionality, alongside better VMware integration and pricing refinements for accessing enterprise features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Panzura CloudFS is primarily used in public and hybrid cloud environments with responsive customer support, while Dell PowerStore is mainly on-premises with competitive pricing, though it faces challenges in support responsiveness during complex deployments. The deployment ease and supported environments vary between the two.

Pricing and ROI: Panzura CloudFS is considered slightly expensive but beneficial in reducing latency and file-syncing issues, leading to improved ROI. Dell PowerStore's pricing is on the higher side compared to alternatives, but it offers attractive solutions with features like a guaranteed four-to-one deduplication ratio, making it potentially valuable over time.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerStore vs. Panzura CloudFS Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Dell PowerStore vs. Panzura CloudFS

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

5.6

Dell PowerStore users report positive ROI through cost efficiency, reduced infrastructure, enhanced performance, and improved business operations.

Sentiment score

5.1

Organizations experienced enhanced resilience, doubled performance, and productivity gains by adopting Panzura CloudFS, solving past file storage issues.

If you purchase storage with 300 terabytes, you can easily achieve one petabyte of effective capacity.

AdnanAli Khan

Regional Sales Manager at New Horizon Computers

It's been trouble-free the entire time, with very high performance, as it has been designed and built properly.

reviewer2709102

Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen a return on our investment in Dell PowerStore; definitely our cost per terabyte has been very good compared to some of the other vendors that we would have been using previously, and our performance benchmarks have exceeded what we were expecting.

Eoin O’Brien

Director of Global Platform at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Previously, we had latency issues with syncing up files between offices. Files were not locked, leading to overwrites which cost us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost time and revenue.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

We saw the benefits of Panzura CloudFS immediately because our remote offices were able to share files immediately after the product went live.

Dragan Lazic

Information Technology Manager at The Gateway Engineers, Inc.

Panzura CloudFS saves us a significant amount of time frequently.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

Dell PowerStore users generally praise support, citing quick responses but noting occasional issues with speed and staff experience.

Sentiment score

6.8

Panzura CloudFS support is praised for quick, expert assistance despite occasional delays, receiving high ratings from users.

I would rate the technical support of Dell PowerStore between nine and ten out of ten.

Tiby Thomas

Solution Architect at CDA

They're responsive, knowledgeable, and have a quick turnaround.

reviewer2598762

Systems Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell support as a ten, focusing on that aspect alone, because it's what allows me to sleep at night.

Alan Farrely

Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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The support staff and the number of people they have on staff right now are truly good.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

When we have a priority-one issue, we typically receive a call within 20 to 30 minutes.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

I would give the support for Panzura CloudFS a ten out of ten because they are responsive and helpful.

Matt Sarsam

Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.8

Dell PowerStore offers exceptional scalability, adapting easily to organizational growth with robust vertical and horizontal expansion capabilities.

Sentiment score

6.8

Panzura CloudFS is highly scalable, effortlessly supports many users across locations, with seamless deployment and dedicated support.

The solution's scalability is a ten out of ten.

Amjed Antari

Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It scales up and scales out both ways, and as our data keeps growing, it is very easy to just keep attaching and keep growing.

Nikhil Desai

Associate Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scaling up can be done from a single enclosure that already has two controllers to a maximum of four storage units with up to eight controllers, and a massive amount of storage can be added.

KiewietKritzinger

Nutanix at Senior System Engineer

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Unlimited users can access the system without issues.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

From our original entry with Panzura CloudFS, we have added an additional seven sites, and deploying those additional nodes was very seamless and did not take any effort.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

The latest version, 8.0.2, has better ease of decommissioning filers and bringing new ones online.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Dell PowerStore is praised for stability and support, with minor issues usually resolved quickly and efficiently.

Sentiment score

6.1

Panzura CloudFS is highly stable with rare outages and improved reliability, earning high user ratings overall.

When I removed all the cables, it failed over within five minutes.

reviewer2707638

Consultant

It's quite stable and reliable in general.

reviewer2794212

Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I have not experienced any downtime, bugs, or glitches, and it's much better than previous technologies.

Mohammed Ajmal

Storage Backup Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I would rate it a nine out of ten for stability.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

We have never had their system crash on us.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

There were times with file lock issues between filers, causing various anomalies, but with their ongoing development, these issues have improved.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

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Room For Improvement

Users suggest improvements in Dell PowerStore's integration, stability, cost, support, cybersecurity, scalability, usability, and enterprise features.

Panzura CloudFS needs improvements in performance, compatibility, pricing, dashboard, alerting, licensing, Active Directory reliance, NFS service, and support.

Something needs to be done with the caching to ensure that if some issue occurs, there needs to be an ability to disable caching during maintenance to make it static, safe, and good.

reviewer2402940

CISO Admin at a analyst firm with 51-200 employees

Pricing must also be considered, as Dell PowerStore is quite expensive compared to competitors in the market like HPE Alletra, Huawei Dorado, or Hitachi storage, for example.

Kashif-Naseer

Unit Head - Technology Services at Shahnawaz Ltd

The main reason why people move to Pure Storage is because it's simplified.

Kevinsa Heng

IT Director at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

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When something goes wrong somewhere, there should be a little bit better alerting with issues before they become a big problem.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

The GIS data formats, such as a geo database, have been found better kept outside of Panzura CloudFS.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

It would have been nice if they had offered them in increments, of 5, 10, 15, or 20 terabytes than having to get a whole chunk of 25 terabytes again for licensing purposes, which is a little costly.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

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Setup Cost

Dell PowerStore is competitively priced with comprehensive licensing, though expansion costs may lead to higher overall expenses.

Panzura CloudFS pricing is higher than competitors, lacks granular licenses, but offers negotiation flexibility and transparency.

Likely the cost is $400,000 whereas IBM may be $250,000.

Hamed Mohamed

Adv. Service Manager at ECC Solutions

Based on my experience, the cost of Dell PowerStore for around 500 GB of capacity is very competitive compared to any other platform in the market.

SachinSharma4

Deputy General Manager at HCLSoftware

I asked for a new quotation on a server, and it is quite expensive; it is really expensive.

Nicolas Philippe

Responsable Plateformes Et Cloud at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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It did require us to purchase new hardware, however, that was not overly expensive.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

They should consider more attractive pricing for companies of our size.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

Overall, it is quite costly compared to NetApp and similar solutions.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Dell PowerStore offers flexible deployment, high performance, efficient storage, scalability, and security, making it ideal for diverse storage needs.

Panzura CloudFS enhances workflows with high availability, security, and seamless collaboration, reducing storage costs and boosting productivity.

This includes storage sharing, adding servers to the service, and the wireless host connection on the network side.

Naresh K

Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Dell PowerStore offers good integration capabilities, especially since it helps with backup, which is an important aspect.

reviewer2402997

CISO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

In terms of whether my company could reduce the power consumption with Dell PowerStore, I would say that my company had a use case with a customer around three weeks ago where their old Dell EMC VNX Storage System used to draw about 2500 watts compared to Dell PowerStore which drew about 800 watts, which is a really a big saving looking at the twenty-four hours and seven days of usage of the system.

Lukas Rueckerl

Data Center Consultant at a retailer with 11-50 employees

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It is very reliable and very quick.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

It helps us increase network resilience. We have a primary object library stored in the cloud and have Panzura Mirroring which allows us to place data in a secondary cloud for added resiliency.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

There is no degradation of speed because these filers have cached the data, and they are constantly swapping metadata and updating with each other, which is a very attractive method of getting us to use these applications.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerStore

Ranking in NAS

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

164

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (4th), Enterprise SAN (1st), All-Flash Storage (1st), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (1st)

Panzura CloudFS

Ranking in NAS

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (3rd), Cloud Storage (10th), Cloud Storage Gateways (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the NAS category, the mindshare of Dell PowerStore is 10.4%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panzura CloudFS is 2.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

NAS Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell PowerStore	10.4%
Panzura CloudFS	2.8%
Other	86.8%

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reviewer2304864

Vmware Windows Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Resilience has supported proactive management and secured audit readiness across multiple sites

The resilience in Dell PowerStore benefits my company from an auditing perspective because we know we have that resilience in place. I see Dell PowerStore playing a bigger role in the future because we are starting to use it more, and that is pushing it. The biggest return on investment for me when using Dell PowerStore is scalability. Scalability is key. I can amplify that scalability is the biggest return on investment because we have redundancy between two sites; if something goes down, we have to manage it, but we want to do it proactively.

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Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering

Handles file locks effectively enabling seamless remote collaboration in global teams

It has not reduced the data storage cost. We have been trying to come up with a plan internally to archive project data at a certain time frame. However, our data continues to grow, so at the point of 25 terabytes, we had to buy another 25 terabytes license to exceed that threshold. It would have been nice if they had offered them in increments, of 5, 10, 15, or 20 terabytes than having to get a whole chunk of 25 terabytes again for licensing purposes, which is a little costly. It would be nice if Panzura offered data in increments instead of 25 terabytes per license. They have done a pretty good job of development from the point of offering new products. Pricing seems to be high for certain things, such as the audit feature of Panzura Data Services. It would be nice to see who deleted that 100 gig of data out there. They should make the pricing plan more attractive for a company of our size. We have almost 700 employees over the southeast from Texas to Florida and up to Tennessee, so we are a pretty big region.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	54
Midsize Enterprise	34
Large Enterprise	81

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you think about Dell EMC PowerStore? Is it actually a new product?

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How does Dell's EMC PowerStore compare with its EMC Unity XT?

Dell EMC PowerStore is a unified storage platform that has the added benefit of being scalable. The automated management of resources feature provides a more simple administration. I found the flex...

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What's the difference between DELL EMC Powerstore and Powermax NVMe?

Dell PowerStore is an all-solid-state midrange storage system. It has many internal elements taken from other Dell offerings and integrated into the PowerStoreOS. The installation and setup have a ...

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What are the products that Panzura provides?

Panzura offers four main products: CloudFS, data services, smart apps, and global services. They call this "all-in-one solution" and it's for end-to-end cloud data management. Why is it called that...

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What kind of industries does Panzura serve?

Hello, I think businesses from all industries that have their data on a cloud can benefit from Panzura. Especially if you have offices in various locations or your employees are working from home a...

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Why was Panzura acquired? Is the acquisition going to cause a change?

I think Panzura may change in a positive direction now that it's been bought by Profile Capital. That's a very big investment company for technology businesses and I think it's an opportunity for ...

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

PowerStore

Panzura Freedom

Overview

Dell PowerStore is a scalable, high-performance platform supporting both modern and traditional workloads, enhancing IT operations with AI-driven automation and advanced data reduction features.

Designed for flexibility, Dell PowerStore integrates seamlessly with VMware, providing robust security and high IOPS. Users benefit from fast NVMe storage, intelligent data management, and scalable performance to handle diverse workload demands. However, improvements are needed in replication, enterprise functionalities, and UI complexity. Stability and support issues highlight the need for enhanced monitoring and pricing strategies.

What are the key features of Dell PowerStore?

Advanced Compression: Optimizes storage capacity effectively.
Data Deduplication: Reduces redundant data, improving efficiency.
Scalability: Easily adjusts to growing business needs.
VMware Integration: Enhances virtualization performance.
AI-Driven Management: Simplifies IT operations.
NVMe Storage: Provides fast, reliable access to data.
Robust Security: Ensures data protection.

What benefits does Dell PowerStore offer?

High Performance: Supports demanding applications with high IOPS.
Flexible Design: Adapts to changing workload requirements.
Cost Efficiency: Promotes ROI through data reduction and scaling.
Enhanced Management: Streamlines operations with AI and integrations.
Improved Data Handling: Efficiently manages databases and storage.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and IT, Dell PowerStore is critical for VMware virtualization, high-performance databases, and backup storage. It supports hosting virtual machines, mirroring storage, and handling SAP and Oracle databases effectively. Its role in hybrid and on-premises setups showcases its adaptability and integration capabilities for mission-critical tasks.

Dell Technologies

Panzura CloudFS connects data across a distributed network, offering an efficient solution for file storage and management in a cloud environment.

Designed for businesses needing robust data management, Panzura CloudFS enables seamless access and high availability by providing advanced capabilities for distributed file systems. This technology ensures collaboration and data consistency across multiple locations, optimizing enterprise storage strategies and enhancing data governance and compliance. Effective in reducing latency and operational complexity, it addresses the demands of global enterprises seeking scalable and reliable cloud file services.

What are the key features of Panzura CloudFS?

Global File System: Offers a unified view of file storage across multiple sites.
Data Consolidation: Merges various data silos into a single, cohesive storage network.
Security and Compliance: Ensures data protection with built-in encryption and compliance features.
High Availability: Provides continuous access to data with fault-tolerant architecture.
Quick Deployment: Enables rapid integration into existing infrastructure with minimal downtime.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Cost Reduction: Minimizes data storage costs through efficient use of cloud storage.
Improved Collaboration: Facilitates real-time file access and sharing across geographies.
Scalability: Supports growing data needs without significant infrastructure investment.
Enhanced Productivity: Reduces operational inefficiencies with streamlined data management.
Security Enhancements: Protects critical data assets with advanced security measures.

Panzura CloudFS finds applications in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and media, where data integrity and accessibility are critical. Financial institutions benefit from secure and synchronized data access, while healthcare providers utilize it for managing patient data across locations. The media industry leverages its capabilities for collaboration and efficient media file handling worldwide.

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Sample Customers

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Petrofac, Komatsu, HCA Healthcare, Vanguard, Disney, Pokemon, US Department of Justice, Gensler, Fluor, AFRY, Milwaukee Tool, Navy Federal Credit Union, TechTarget

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