Oracle ZFS vs Panzura CloudFS comparison

Oracle and Panzura are both solutions in the File System Software category. Oracle is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0, while Panzura is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.7. Oracle holds a 7.9% mindshare in FSS, compared to Panzura’s 14.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Panzura users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

Panzura CloudFS and Oracle ZFS are competing in file storage and data management. Panzura CloudFS is often seen as more cost-effective due to its pricing and support, while Oracle ZFS is preferred for its extensive feature set.

Features: Panzura CloudFS includes scalable cloud file systems, efficient data deduplication, and high-performance global file collaboration. Oracle ZFS offers advanced analytics, integrated data services, and robust data compression.

Room for Improvement: Panzura CloudFS could improve on cloud integration and reporting capabilities. It may benefit from enhancing its data analytics and support for larger enterprise solutions. Oracle ZFS could enhance its cloud-native offerings and simplify its deployment. It may also improve user-friendliness and streamline its complex features for better usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Panzura CloudFS offers straightforward deployment with quick cloud service integration and proactive support. Oracle ZFS provides a more complex deployment experience with enterprise-level solutions and comprehensive support.

Pricing and ROI: Panzura CloudFS is competitive in upfront costs and delivers good returns through efficient cloud collaboration. Oracle ZFS involves higher initial costs but offers significant long-term value due to its extensive features.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle ZFS

Ranking in File System Software

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Panzura CloudFS

Ranking in File System Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NAS (9th), Cloud Storage (10th), Cloud Storage Gateways (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the File System Software category, the mindshare of Oracle ZFS is 7.9%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panzura CloudFS is 14.6%, up from 12.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File System Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Panzura CloudFS	14.6%
Oracle ZFS	7.9%
Other	77.5%

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David Kotey

IT Infrastructure Manager at National Investment Bank

Efficient setup and seamless performance ensure an outstanding experience

Everything in Oracle ZFS is great and it's easy to use, making it very user-friendly. I have used Oracle ZFS Snapshot and Rollback capabilities, and everything has worked well. The Snapshot and Rollback features in Oracle ZFS are awesome - that's one word to describe it. It's cool, very easy, and stress-free. Without doing benchmarks with other products, I can rate data compression in Oracle ZFS about an eight or nine out of ten, and I have noticed some deduplication and indexing features. Regarding how Oracle ZFS handles demanding workloads, such as online transaction processing and complex query executions, most of these aspects depend on your configuration setup. For instance, if you are using virtualization and have enterprise solutions on these servers, you can route or place database servers on SSDs or flash disks to enable better throughput from these systems. You can run your operating system on flash disks, or alternatively save ordinary data on SATA disks, depending on where you place your valuable data. The structure will affect performance, so if you plan it properly, you can achieve the best performance, even if the systems are aging or if you don't have the compute power, you can still balance it.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is not necessarily for the fastest storage or cluster storage, but just for pure storage, it's really hard to beat. It's just been around as long as anything else."

"The replication capability and data security have been the most valuable features."

"Oracle ZFS is very fast and it is efficient. It has outperformed any hardware array controller that I've ever come across. With Oracle ZFS on my NAS, which is running five, four terabyte drives, when I've had a drive failure and changed one out, it'll rebuild that array in two hours, or maybe less. When you think you're rebuilding almost four terabytes of data redundancy, that's pretty good using an old AMD Turion hardware, that's nothing to complain about."

"Everything in Oracle ZFS is great and it's easy to use, making it very user-friendly."

"What I appreciate most about Panzura CloudFS is that it really solves the problem we had when we moved all our server workloads to Azure, reducing our on-prem data center footprint sizably."

"Panzura has not increased its data storage costs."

"The best features of the Panzura CloudFS solution include collaboration, which is my top priority and top feature. No one else provides this as effectively."

"Panzura CloudFS has helped to increase the network resilience by 100%."

"Primarily, it is the way Panzura CloudFS handles the file locks and the way these filers, along with the authoritative copy of all our data, which is about 27 terabytes located in an AWS bucket in the cloud, operate."

"It is a very solid product. We keep all of our older files on their system. It is easy to restore if a file gets deleted. We have good disaster recovery. It is very reliable and very quick, and we do not have files that get overwritten because it locks the file."

"Panzura CloudFS has helped to increase the network resilience by 100%."

"The core function of Panzura CloudFS, with its synchronizing of files across multiple servers, provides us with a much more efficient workflow for our production staff."

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Cons

"ZFS is great for just mass storage, but if you're trying to make fast storage – something like a SAN-type delivery network where you wanted to do any type of RAM disc over the network – it falls flat. ZFS does not do that. It is kind of limiting."

"Oracle ZFS does what I've asked it to do, and it has done it very efficiently. The only time I'm running into issues is with Proxmox. If I run ZFS drives, I find my RAM usage is very high. However, I don't have that problem with the TrueNAS system, where I'm running an old N36 Turion with four gigabytes of RAM, and that's running 24/7. There have been no issues with such a low-powered environment there, it works fine, but with Proxmox it seems to go slow."

"When retrieving data from the replication of remote sites, it does not give you immediate results. The RPO and RTO rates could be improved."

"In terms of improvements for Panzura CloudFS, I would like to see the Edge feature."

"It has not reduced the data storage cost."

"It is a little costly. The NFS service needs development."

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

"Previously, a new update would come out, and there might be something wrong with it, or it may not sync up as well as it should, or it may cause something to lose access to the server."

"There are a few file types that do not work well with Panzura CloudFS."

"One area for improvement regarding Panzura CloudFS is moving away from on-prem or local Active Directory. We're exploring a transition to Azure AD or Entra ID, aiming to keep the product functional without heavy reliance on the local Active Directory."

"There could be a slightly better dashboard or a better pane of glass. When something goes wrong somewhere, there should be a little bit better alerting with issues before they become a big problem."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing seems high on certain products and features, such as the audit feature of Panzura Data Services. They should consider more attractive pricing for companies of our size. The renewals are yearly, but the pricing is a little high for us."

"It's competitive. I don't know what competitors are charging, but they have been very transparent, which is nice, and we've negotiated to avoid percentage increases."

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

"The solution's pricing is on the expensive side."

"It is not bad. It is like everything else. Pricing has gone up quite over the last couple of years, but everybody's pricing has gone up. For what they deliver, it is right in line with what everybody else has."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Healthcare Company

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Large Enterprise	1

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

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle ZFS?

From my experience, we consumers will only ask for one thing from Oracle ZFS: cost improvements. Regarding the cost, making it 50 percent less would be beneficial, as it cannot be free.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle ZFS?

Our main use case for Oracle ZFS is that it's just normal storage for the entire infrastructure, so we have our systems connected to it.

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle ZFS?

Oracle ZFS is easy to scale; you can just get the modules and add them to increase the capacity, and that's it. It's just seamless. To summarize, I can advise those who want to use Oracle ZFS to co...

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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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Also Known As

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Overview

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance delivers leading performance and superior efficiency in enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) environments, accelerating business functions, and reducing complexity. This first application-engineered storage system provides unique integration points with Oracle Database which automate storage tuning and data lifecycle management, reduce capacity requirements, and lower TCO.

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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

Specialized Bicycle Components Inc., Hospital AlemÊo Oswaldo Cruz, DB Schenker Rail, Asia Commercial Bank, First Alliance Bank Zambia Limited, Ricoh Company Ltd., CyberSolutions Inc., NARA INSTITUTE of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY, SunGard Availability Services, B&H PhotoVideo,

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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