Panzura CloudFS Reviews

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.

We use the solution for our employees to collaborate on files. We have employees in multiple offices, and the solution allows us to store their files on the server. That way, they can access those files in real time, regardless of their office.

Its most valuable features are the collaboration, the file snapshots, and the data protection the solution provides.

The performance of international offices should be improved. Specifically performance for users that are far away or overseas. With many people being remote, there should be easier ways of remote access in future releases. It should be easy for people not on the network to connect and access their files.

I've used Panzura since 2017, and I'm using the latest version.

I rate Panzura's stability a seven out of ten since it's improved. We have some of our servers going down. It's been a while now, but it happened several times when we had significant downtime.

I rate Panzura's scalability a ten out of ten. There are about 1,200 users in my organization.

We switched from an older storage system to gain Panzura's real-time collaboration features primarily. Our old storage system was at the end of its life, and we needed to upgrade to something.

The initial setup wasn't too difficult. Setting everything up only took a few weeks, but it took us several months to migrate all our data.

The solution was implemented in-house.

The solution's pricing is on the expensive side and is not a strong point.

I rate Panzura a seven out of ten. Anyone looking into using Panzura for the first time should get multiple references from other companies already using Panzura, ask them about their issues, and be an informed consumer. We didn't ask enough questions the first time.