Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 25, 2025
They have just addressed one of the features we were hoping for, which is colder storage tiers. They have that availability now. The only other thing beyond that is that their first-level support hasn't always been perfect. Once we have gotten up to the expert tiers, it has been great. I would suggest more training for their first-level support.
I don't have anything to complain about regarding Panzura CloudFS. They're developing an AI side that's supposed to be around by this fall. They're a step ahead of the game on that as well, and I really don't have any deficiencies I can point out. However, the pricing could be more competitive.
Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Apr 29, 2025
It is a little costly. The NFS service needs development. While Windows and SMB are effective, the NFS service shows some lag, making it a pain point for our many clients who use Linux devices.
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.
Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.
Real User
Top 10
Feb 27, 2025
There are a few file types that do not work well with Panzura CloudFS. Specifically, the GIS data formats, such as a geo database, have been found better kept outside of Panzura CloudFS. However, everything else works very well.
For me, it is the stability aspect. It is a lot more stable now than it ever has been, but just keeping that stability is important. 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. We have had some problems in the past, but in the last couple of years, we have not had any issues like we had early on. 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.
Director Of Information Technology at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Sep 22, 2023
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.
Panzura CloudFS is a cloud file system that enables efficient collaboration and data synchronization across multiple offices with features like file snapshots, data protection, and network resilience.With Panzura CloudFS, organizations achieve seamless file synchronization and management across distributed networks. Offering a single namespace and capabilities like compression, deduplication, and metadata management, it simplifies administration and supports enterprise-level applications....
They have just addressed one of the features we were hoping for, which is colder storage tiers. They have that availability now. The only other thing beyond that is that their first-level support hasn't always been perfect. Once we have gotten up to the expert tiers, it has been great. I would suggest more training for their first-level support.
I don't have anything to complain about regarding Panzura CloudFS. They're developing an AI side that's supposed to be around by this fall. They're a step ahead of the game on that as well, and I really don't have any deficiencies I can point out. However, the pricing could be more competitive.
It is a little costly. The NFS service needs development. While Windows and SMB are effective, the NFS service shows some lag, making it a pain point for our many clients who use Linux devices.
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.
There are a few file types that do not work well with Panzura CloudFS. Specifically, the GIS data formats, such as a geo database, have been found better kept outside of Panzura CloudFS. However, everything else works very well.
For me, it is the stability aspect. It is a lot more stable now than it ever has been, but just keeping that stability is important. 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. We have had some problems in the past, but in the last couple of years, we have not had any issues like we had early on. 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.
Master Snapshot feature is the only exceptional feature, but the rest of the features are similar to other storage solutions.
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.