Panzura Earns Coveted Spot on CRN’s Storage 100 List for 6th Consecutive Year 

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SAN FRANCISCO — May 1, 2025 — Panzura has been recognized for the sixth consecutive year by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a place on the prestigious 2025 Storage 100 list. This influential annual compilation identifies vanguard storage vendors leading innovation in critical areas including software-defined storage (SDS), data protection and recovery, observability, and hardware advancement. 

Serving as a resource for channel-focused organizations and professionals navigating the storage landscape, the Storage 100 list highlights best-in-class companies that are behind the success of partners in the reseller channel. It underscores the technological innovation of Panzura, as well as the company’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that address the evolving data challenges faced by modern enterprises. 

According to industry analysts, the worldwide data storage market continues to experience significant growth, driven by the exponential increase in data generation and the need for efficient and scalable storage solutions across diverse environments. Panzura’s consistent recognition on the CRN Storage 100 list highlights the pivotal role of the company’s technology in this dynamic market. 

As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100 list, Panzura is ranked among the “50 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors”. This distinction specifically acknowledges the power and innovation of Panzura’s flagship offerings – Panzura CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform and Panzura Symphony data services platform. CRN highlights that these two platforms empower technologists and operational teams with the capabilities needed to control, protect, and deliver data to people and processes. “The two help infrastructure and operations leaders understand their data, control costs, mitigate data damage and accelerate productivity,” said CRN. 

Recognition in the software-defined storage category underscores Panzura’s forward-thinking approach of creating a data fabric that is independent of the underlying hardware and IT systems. “We’re providing our customers with greater flexibility, agility, and cost-effectiveness in managing their unstructured data and modernizing their digital foundation with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies,” said Petra Davidson, Head of Global Marketing, Panzura. 

Panzura CloudFS: Where Hybrid Cloud Storage Meets Enterprise Resilience 

Panzura CloudFS creates a unified data environment across hybrid infrastructures, allowing organizations to maintain control whether their data resides on-premises or in any cloud environment. Consolidating dispersed file servers and storage systems into a single logical view, CloudFS tackles persistent challenges including data fragmentation, storage cost inflation, and distributed access management. 

The platform transforms collaboration for global teams through intelligent file synchronization that enables real-time co-authoring regardless of location. Its performance architecture combines network acceleration, deduplication, and artificial intelligence (AI) -driven caching to optimize data transfer while minimizing bandwidth consumption — ensuring responsive experiences even when working with complex files across continents. 

“Panzura’s position on the CRN Storage 100 for six straight years isn’t just recognition — it’s validation that our approach of turning data chaos into digital advantage resonates with partners and customers alike,” continued Davidson. 

The CloudFS security framework centers on immutability, creating an impenetrable defense against ransomware and data corruption by preventing unauthorized data modification at the architectural level. This approach enables near-instantaneous file restoration and business continuity. As the only solution in its category with FIPS 140-3 certification for its core data encryption and key management processes, CloudFS meets stringent regulatory requirements across industries. 

Recent CloudFS 8.5 Adapt enhancements demonstrate Panzura’s innovation velocity — from Instant Node technology which can function as a virtual high availability system and reduces edge deployment time to under five minutes, to Regional Store capabilities which enable active high availability for object stores and lower latency for global deployments of CloudFS. These advances, alongside expanded virtualization support and enhanced security controls, directly address the market demands for operational continuity, cost management, and data protection. 

Panzura Symphony: Orchestrating Enterprise Data at Scale 

Panzura Symphony is engineered to manage, analyze, and mobilize large volumes of unstructured data across diverse storage environments, including on premises, private, public, and hybrid clouds. The data services platform provides a single pane of glass for comprehensive data operations, including automated exabyte-scale data discovery and assessment, rich metadata extraction and cataloging. It provides intelligent policy-driven data movement for tiering, archiving, and migration without disrupting user access.  

It harmonizes disparate object and file storage into a coherent, searchable, metadata-aware ecosystem that brings structure to unstructured data, transforming it into actionable intelligence. Unlike traditional data management tools that merely report storage metrics, Symphony delivers contextual understanding of data content, usage patterns, and business value — enabling technologists to make strategic decisions about retention, protection, and utilization. 

The platform’s patented metadata indexing technology maps relationships, identifying redundancies, and revealing insights previously hidden within unstructured files. This capability is particularly valuable for launching AI initiatives, as it identifies relevant training datasets across previously siloed repositories while maintaining governance controls. 

Moreover, Symphony’s policy engine automates complex workflows based on business rules rather than technical parameters. This allows non-specialists to implement sophisticated data management strategies without detailed knowledge of underlying storage systems. Teams can define organizational parameters around data age, sensitivity, access patterns, or business context, and Symphony orchestrates appropriate placement and protection automatically. 

Where traditional data management often creates frustrating trade-offs between governance and accessibility, Symphony eliminates this false choice. Its architecture maintains centralized control while enabling distributed access — what Panzura calls “command and control” — allowing complex organizations to simultaneously strengthen compliance and accelerate innovation. 

The platform also improves data governance and compliance through granular controls and risk analysis. Ultimately, it enables organizations to unlock valuable insights from their sprawling data estates, driving better decisions and powering AI, ML, and even DevOps initiatives. 

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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