Reading Time: 4 minutes Last month, Coldago Research released its 2024 Map for File Storage . The report analyzes the file storage market across 27 distinct companies and 37 globally during the past twelve months. Comprised of three individual maps for Enterprise File Storage, High Performance File Storage, and Cloud File Storage, each map displays vendors in the four categories of Niches, Specialists, Challengers, and Leaders.
Panzura has been named a leader in the Cloud File Storage Map, recognized for its execution and capabilities as well as its vision and strategy, and led by the award-winning hybrid cloud file services platform Panzura CloudFS.
This is a significant achievement as Coldago Research evaluates the completeness of solution offerings, customer satisfaction, and market share. Panzura's strong performance in these areas demonstrates our commitment to delivering innovative cloud file storage solutions and supporting customers through their digital transformation initiatives, as well as their data management and file storage infrastructure programs.
Unlocking Performance and Scalability for Hybrid Cloud Environments
Panzura CloudFS enables seamless file access, simultaneous co-authoring and collaboration, and data resiliency against ransomware and other types of malicious or accidental data loss. Its advanced features, such as global data deduplication and real-time file locking make it a formidable solution for modern enterprises.
The platform is designed to optimize data transfer and processing, which directly benefits AI workloads. Providing a global namespace and accelerating data access, CloudFS can significantly speed up AI model training and inference, leading to faster time-to-insight.
CloudFS integrates with leading cloud storage providers like Microsoft Azure , AWS , and Google Cloud Platform . Equally, the platform allows organizations to use on-premises object stores such as Cloudian .
Panzura CloudFS recently achieved FIPS 140-3 certification , making it the only solution in its category with this stringent certification for its core data encryption and key management processes. This certification is crucial for organizations with strict security and compliance requirements, particularly those in government and regulated industries.
With its focus on security, performance, and scalability, CloudFS is well-positioned to address the evolving needs of modern enterprises dealing with explosive data growth and the increasing complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Fig. 1 - Coldago Research Map 2024 for Cloud File Storage. More information is available at Coldago Research .
Philippe Nicolas, the founder of Coldago Research , shared his expert analysis and insight about the recent report. As a leading analyst in the storage market, he advises enterprise firms, investors, and vendors to help them navigate the adoption of innovative solutions and broaden their understanding of storage and data management technologies and markets.
Speaking about Panzura's placement as a Leader in Cloud File Storage map, Nicolas remarked, "The market has evolved a lot over the last few years, with new pressure and more recently AI developments that really forced companies to reinvent themselves. As a pioneer in the domain, Panzura has made significant progress, continued its market penetration with some notable successes, and even acquired some technology assets to expand its unstructured data management coverage. All these elements invite us to again elect Panzura as a Leader in the Coldago Map 2024 for Cloud File Storage."
Nicolas frequently offers his analysis in StorageNewsletter , writes for the French-language technology publication Le Monde Informatique, and posts regularly with dedicated blogs on File Storage Technologies and Continuous Data Protection. In addition, he hosts The French Storage Podcast, where he covers technology trends, interviews business leaders, and hosts IT round tables. Moreover, he produces and hosts leading IT events, including the IT Press Tour and the Innov Tour.
Panzura Joins 60th Edition of IT Press Tour in the Bay Area
IT Press Tour is a long-running media event where leading-edge, innovative technology companies present their latest products and services to a select group of international journalists and technology industry reporters from publications including Blocks and Files, VMBlog, LeMonde Informatique, LeMagIT, DZone, and TechTarget, among others.
The event format allows participating companies to engage directly with influential members of the global technology media, providing them with in-depth briefing sessions to learn about upcoming innovations, view product and solution roadmaps, and discuss business and IT trends driving technology adoption.
We are delighted to be taking part in the IT Press Tour again this year. Later this month, we will join a select group of leading storage-focused vendors in the Silicon Valley to unveil our latest platform innovations in file data management and services. We see these innovations as transcending the limitations of 'what if?' and empowering our customers to ask, 'Why not?'.
The modern enterprise must navigate an ever-more treacherous data landscape. The explosion of unstructured data, evolving threats like ransomware, the expanding complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and AI-driven disruption mean they need data resiliency, command and control, and immediacy like never before. At Panzura, it’s about more than helping them overcome obstacles — it’s about building a foundation on which their business can thrive with simplicity and agility.
Panzura is leading the charge in hybrid cloud data management and cloud storage, addressing the evolving needs of the enterprise across diverse environments. Leveraging cloud agility and elasticity, the Panzura CloudFS and Panzura Symphony platforms deliver unparalleled file services, data services, and cyber-storage capabilities.
We look forward to many meaningful conversations and the opportunity to discuss Panzura’s accelerating momentum in the market. This includes our vision for leveraging unstructured data management technologies to drive hybrid cloud deployments and accelerate digital transformation initiatives for our customers.
We are dedicated to enhancing each customer’s unique data management journey and will explain how we continue to build customer programs designed to maximize the value derived from Panzura solutions. We also will talk about our strengthened alliances with key channel and technology partners, such as our recent announcement about the integration of Symphony with GRAU DATA’s MetadataHub.
As we look ahead, our goal remains to deliver solutions that address our customers' most pressing challenges today. Our selection for IT Press Tour and inclusion in the most recent Coldago Research report punctuate our customer-first approach and presage what is to come. Stay tuned – 2025 is shaping up to be an amazing year!
