Panzura vs. Egnyte

Both Panzura CloudFS and Egnyte offer robust solutions for cloud file management, collaboration, and data security. However, their architectural approaches and core strengths lead to significant differences in business value and ROI, especially for organizations with demanding global operations, large file sets, and stringent data resilience requirements.

Data Immutability & Ransomware Resilience

Panzura CloudFS creates immutable global snapshots every 60 seconds, ensuring a near-zero Recovery Point Objective. It also detects and interdicts ransomware in near real-time, automatically disconnecting affected users and streamlining recovery by restoring lightweight metadata pointers.

This drastically reduces the financial impact of ransomware or accidental deletion and accelerates recovery time.

Global Deduplication & Storage Cost Optimization

Panzura CloudFS utilizes patented global block-level deduplication and compression before data reaches the cloud. This ensures that identical data, even across multiple global offices, is stored only once in your cloud object storage.

These measures directly impact TCO by eliminating redundant data globally, reducing egress fees, and optimizing bandwidth usage.

Data Autonomy & Cloud Flexibility

Panzura CloudFS provides customers with direct ownership and management of their encryption keys and the flexibility to choose their cloud provider (public, private, or on-premises).

Data resides in standard object storage, making it an ideal landing zone for cloud-native AI/ML services, often resulting in zero egress fees for in-region data consumption.

What I appreciate the most about Panzura CloudFS is that it just works; it provides enterprise-level application across all our offices and simplifies administration. We've been able to increase network resilience. We've had double-digit growth for years now, and Panzura helped us achieve that.

— Dragan Lazic
IT Manager, The Gateway Engineers

Previously, we had latency issues with syncing up files between offices. Files were not locked, leading to overwrites which cost us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost time and revenue. Since transitioning to Panzura, it has been like a night-and-day difference.

— Andy Knauf
CIO, Mead & Hunt

We have seen improvements such as data compression, which is really good. It effectively manages hot data. Files accessed frequently are stored and synchronized across different locations. For instance, if an application server is hosted in the USA, users in Canada can access files swiftly without latency because hot data is synchronized to their local systems.

— Technical Expert
Global Manufacturer, 10,000+ employees