Company Listed Among Cloud 100 for Seventh Consecutive Year for Innovation and IT Channel-Focused Excellence
News Summary:
- For the seventh consecutive year, Panzura has been named one of CRN’s "20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies," a distinction that highlights the company’s sustained innovation and commitment to the IT channel.
- In the year ahead, Panzura is prioritizing partner enablement, technical certifications, and co-selling resources that help solution providers differentiate their offerings in an increasingly competitive market.
- Panzura’s CloudFS and Symphony platforms empower organizations to transform fragmented storage into secure, AI-ready, and well-governed data assets that drive business value across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
SAN FRANCISCO — January 27, 2026 — Panzura has been named one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies” of 2026 by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. The recognition marks Panzura’s seventh consecutive appearance on the CRN Cloud 100 list, which annually honors the most innovative cloud technology vendors serving the IT channel.
“Seven years among CRN's Cloud 100 reflects our commitment to innovation and to our channel partners. Our platforms help enterprises turn fragmented, vulnerable data into consolidated, protected, AI-ready assets. Our partners are essential to delivering that value,” said Dan Waldschmidt, CEO, Panzura.
Panzura’s channel approach ensures its partners have the tools, training, and support to deliver measurable outcomes for their customers. In the year ahead, the company will invest heavily in partner enablement programs, technical certifications, and co-selling resources that help solution providers differentiate their offerings in an increasingly competitive market.
“Our partners are on the front lines helping customers navigate the complexity of cloud data management. This recognition from CRN validates what our partners already know—Panzura platforms solve real problems and create real opportunities for growth,” said George Axberg, Vice President of Sales, North America.
According to CRN, data is not a static asset. In the cloud, it becomes valuable and ever-changing as vendors introduce new ways to migrate it where it’s needed, manage it to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, and add cyber resilience capabilities that go far beyond traditional data protection. Panzura’s platforms—Panzura CloudFS and Panzura Symphony—enable technologists to transform on-premises and cloud data storage into business-centric resources while improving how that data is protected against cyber threats.
CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform consolidates fragmented file servers and NAS infrastructure into a unified global file system. The platform delivers real-time collaboration with global file locking that eliminates version conflicts, data protection with rapid ransomware and data loss recovery, business continuity, and native S3 API access that makes existing file data immediately available for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workflows. CloudFS holds FIPS 140-3 certification, validating its encryption and key management to the highest federal standards.
Symphony data services platform provides single-pane visibility and governance across unstructured data in on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments regardless of infrastructure. The platform automates data movement between file systems, object stores, and cloud storage for petabyte-scale orchestration and storage cost optimization through intelligent tiering. Symphony’s automated ACL analysis and inheritance correction capabilities tackle the permission sprawl affecting today's enterprises, delivering clean, well-governed data essential for AI initiatives.
Panzura CloudFS and Panzura Symphony both support flexible deployment across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Wasabi, Seagate, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises object storage from vendors including NetApp and Cloudian. The platforms enable organizations to leverage existing infrastructure investments while gaining cloud-scale agility without vendor lock-in.
About Panzura
Panzura empowers modern enterprises to unlock the full potential of their unstructured data, aligning it with strategic business goals. Our solutions ensure data visibility, accessibility, and control, seamlessly preparing organizations for a digitally transformed, AI-driven future. With Panzura, organizations can enhance data resilience, optimize costs, and deliver data instantly to users and processes – anywhere, anytime. Discover how Panzura can drive your success at panzura.com.
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