Panzura and Microsoft Partner to Manage Unstructured Data in the Cloud
- Check out the video on how Panzura CloudFS Brings Enterprise File Services to Microsoft Azure
- Download the Microsoft Azure Solution Brief
- Find Panzura in the Microsoft Marketplace here
Leading Enterprises Trust Panzura and Azure
- Read the Case Study on ÅF
- Read the Case Study on Melbourne Football Club
- Read the Case Study on Hanson Professional Services, Inc.
Enterprises in media and entertainment, genomics, life sciences, healthcare, oil and gas, financial services, and more choose Panzura Freedom NAS to consolidate their data islands into a “Single-Source-of-Truth” in Microsoft Azure cloud without sacrificing performance or application rewrites. By consolidating unstructured data (NFS, SMB, and Object) into Azure cloud, customers can gain access to all their data, collaborate on this data, analyze and control it for compliance. The Freedom product family cost-effectively allows enterprise customers to address the following use cases: cloud migration, global collaboration, search and analytics.
Together, Panzura Freedom NAS and Microsoft Azure enable IT leaders to:
- Migrate thousands of legacy applications to Microsoft Azure without rewrite, changing workflows, or sacrificing performance
- Eliminate copy data sprawl for backup and secondary storage by consolidating data to a single source of truth
- Modernize your legacy NAS while realizing a 70% cost saving and reducing your file infrastructure in your data center by 90%
- Collaborate globally on large-scale projects to improve productivity and time-to-market
- Rehydrate legacy tape data for advanced analytics and machine learning
Panzura CloudFS Brings Enterprise File Services to Microsoft Azure
When you integrate best-in-class object storage with the first enterprise file system purpose-built for the cloud, the result is amazing. Enterprise features that you will gain include:
- Maximum scale, performance, and resource utilization
- Real-time, global byte-range locking
- File services to power data center workloads and mobile clients
- Freedom-based business and deployment models
- Automation and centralized management
- Complete cloud data protection and high-availability with no single point of failure
The Panzura Freedom Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) for Microsoft Azure
Enterprises using the Panzura Freedom™ VHD will be able to support 10x more users and experience 8x better system resource utilization and efficiency. Azure customers using the Panzura Freedom VHD can:
- Connect physical sites to VHD instances
- Consolidate unstructured data to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Seamlessly access unlimited compute and storage
- Simplify backup, disaster recovery, and archive processes
Consolidate and Modernize Your Storage Infrastructure
Panzura and Microsoft partner to help enterprises consolidate unstructured data in Azure. The result? Consolidation of primary NAS storage; automated backup; cloud data protection; global deduplication and compression; and data archive. Modernizing your storage infrastructure with intelligent hybrid cloud storage will reduce storage costs up to 70%.
Leading Enterprises Trust Panzura and Azure
CDW chose Panzura Freedom and Azure to deliver significant CAPEX and OPEX savings for their customer, Pret A Manger, while improving collaboration between teams.
Consolidating storage in Azure using Panzura Freedom eliminated tape backup and prevented the need to rebuild on-site file servers at a cost of $40,000 per site.
Panzura in the Azure Marketplace
Replace legacy NAS and consolidate your unstructured data in Azure using Panzura Freedom. Deploy the solution as a physical, virtual, or in-cloud instance. View all of our options in the Azure Marketplace.
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