The Panzura blog features opinions on key issues in storage, new developments at Panzura, and 3rd party views on cloud trends.
Cloud Storage Moving Beyond Backup, Fundamentally Changing Enterprise IT
One of the things we find striking when we look at how customers use our storage platform is the variety of ways customers leverage its capabilities. Yes we see what is typically viewed as cloud storage use cases like backup and archiving, but getting equal billing are activities like tier-2 NAS, global content centralization, global…
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Fiscal Cliff or Not, DOJ Cuts IT Cost, Improves Performance with Panzura
Panzura Co-founder and CEO Randy Chou discusses DOJ’s selection of Panzura The first thing that comes to mind for most people when they think about adopters of innovative IT strategies and cost reduction plans is probably private industry and not “government.” Rightly or wrongly, the common perception is that “nimble” industry leads and “bureaucratic” government…
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“Finally, Another Interesting Take On A Global File System” – EMC
In his blog today, Chuck Hollis of EMC describes the fruitless search many IT executives have undertaken to find a solution that allows them to consolidate their global file services while still providing local performance. There’s been a lot of false starts: an overlay namespace that “looks” like a global file system, a caching service…
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The State of File-based Storage
I read with interest the recent TechTarget interview of Evaluator Group’s Randy Kerns on what is happening with file based storage. It was a great summary of the trends and pressures we are hearing about from prospects on almost a daily basis. In a nutshell, these are the key points I gleaned from the interview: File…
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The Popular Use Cases of Cloud Storage in the Enterprise
Content distribution, Workflow Sharing, Consolidation, Archiving, Disaster Recovery and Data Protection. Cloud Storage (or Object Storage) has had great success in the Web 2.0 space with very large scale deployments and multi PB capacity under single management. Most of these applications were developed for the consumer market and serve multimedia objects like movies (YouTube,…
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The Importance of the Panzura Ecosystem
Guest blogger Peter O’Brien, Panzura’s VP of Channel and OEM, comments on the importance of the Panzura ecosystem. It’s been a little over a year since I joined Panzura to run channels and OEM sales. I have been in this role before at many companies, but now working for the leading cloud enabler, even…
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451 Research, Relativity Media Discuss Cloud Storage
On June 14, Panzura hosted a webinar with 451 Research and Relativity Media to hear their thoughts on industry trends driving customers to adopt cloud storage and the specific case of Relativity’s evaluation and deployment of cloud storage in their infrastructure. It was a really informative online event that generated a lot of interest. I…
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Panzura Secures Series C, Adds Rackspace Cloud Files
It has been a very busy month for us at Panzura and we’ve still got two weeks to go. This week we announced that we had completed our Series C funding round by bringing Opus Capitalinto our investor family and Carl Showalter to our board. From Dow Jones coverage: ”The firm first looked at the…
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W. Curtis Preston aka “Mr. Backup” Interviewing Panzura at EMC World 2012
W. Curtis Preston Interviews Ranajit Nevatia of Panzura from TrueBit.tv on Vimeo.
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TMCnet Interview with Panzura Following “Best of Show” Win at Interop 2012
Watch this video to see Panzura’s own Ranajit Nevatia being interviewed by TMCnet following our “Best of Show” victory at Interop 2012. Ranajit discusses Panzura’s technology and various cloud storage solutions in the market.
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