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BUILT FOR THE MID-MARKET ORGANIZATION

Panzura Express. AI-ready file data with enterprise-class resilience and single-site simplicity.

A single-site edition of the Panzura CloudFS file data platform built specifically for small- and mid-sized organizations. Immutable snapshots, real-time AI-powered threat detection and control, and Microsoft 365 Copilot-ready data in one parter-delivered license. Designed for a single office.

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Delivered by Panzura Partners Around the World

Panzura Express is sold exclusively through Panzura channel partners, who deliver deployment, configuration, and first-line support. Compute and object storage can come from a Panzura partner or from the end customer. Panzura partners bring deep experience in their specific industries and know the design, imaging, and production applications your files come out of. For an IT team of one to three people, that means having a world-class system that runs the way you need it.
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88%
of breaches at mid-size organizations involve ransomware, against 30% at large organizations.
{Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigation Report)
58%
of middle market organizations now using AI plan to invest $1M or more in 2026, and 84% expect to spend more next year.
(RSM Middle Market AI Survey 2026; n=1,050)
80%
of IT leaders say their AI and data initiatives are held back by limited data access, not by the models themselves.
{Cloudera Data Readiness Index, 2026; n=1,270)
No Storage Hardware to Buy

Full NAS, delivered as software.

Panzura Express is software. There is no controller to spec, hardware delivery date to wait on, and no appliance refresh several years out. Legacy NAS commits an IT team at a small- or mid-sized organization to a capacity decision made years in advance and a delivery date set by someone else's supply chain. Panzura Express takes hardware off the critical path. You get SMB and NFS file services, a high-availability node pair, immutable snapshots, and Active Directory integration, running on virtual hosts you already own against S3-compatible object storage on premises or in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. Adding capacity means adding object storage. 
Three Integrated Solutions, One License

What's included in Panzura Express.

Panzura Express is a fully licensed bundle, not a trial edition or a feature-limited version of something larger. Panzura Express runs the same code as the multi-site Panzura CloudFS platform deployed in global enterprises, licensed for a single site and packaged with the data services and AI layers that would otherwise be purchased separately. The three tiers differ in capacity and nothing else. Every tier offers the same capabilities, so nothing is held back for an upgrade and nothing arrives as an add-on later.

Panzura CloudFS with high availability

The same hybrid cloud file platform that runs in global enterprise deployments, licensed for a single site and deployed with a local HA node pair. Snapshots are immutable and can be taken as often as every 60 seconds, so data encrypted or corrupted in an attack can be rolled back to a point before it started.

Business Impact:

  • Recovery measured in minutes, from snapshots that ransomware, external and internal threat actors cannot alter or delete
  • No proprietary hardware, Panzura Express runs on your virtual hosts and S3-compatible object storage
  • Deployed on premises or in Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud for maximum flexibility and control
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Panzura Data Services with AI-powered Threat Control

Powerful Panzura Data Services search, audit, and AI-powered Threat Control, included in full. Threat Control watches file behavior and alerts administrators as anomalies appear, including ransomware, data exfiltration and mass deletion. The same layer records file activity for audit and makes the entire file estate searchable — the access history and retention evidence a compliance review asks for. 

Business Impact:

  • Anomalous user behavior detected before it becomes a data loss event, not after a backup window closes
  • Audit trails and retention evidence available without a separate compliance tool, helps meet strict regulatory and contractual security obligations
  • Search across every file in the CloudFS estate from a single console with easy and simplicity
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Panzura Nexus AI data intelligence for Copilot

Panzura Nexus makes CloudFS file data discoverable and askable in natural language through the Microsoft 365 Copilot interface your teams already use. Permissions are enforced as they change, so a person who cannot open a file cannot reach its contents, discover it exists, or know or meaning through Copilot either. 

Business Impact:

  • Years of hard-earned knowledge in project files becomes answerable without building a data pipeline, migration project, or data lake
  • AI access reflects the governance parameters and policies already defined in CloudFS with full, real-time permission fidelity
  • Delivers a path to Copilot Studio agents with no additional integration burden or separate data workflows
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Where Panzura Express Fits

Built for the mid-market where the options are low but the need is high.

The file management market is well served at both ends and thin in the middle. At one end, commodity appliances are inexpensive and everywhere, and they were never designed to survive a ransomware attack or to feed an AI workload. Replacing one buys you another hardware refresh in a few years. At the other end, enterprise file platforms assume many offices, a storage team, and a budget refined to both. Between them sit organizations of 100 to 300 people running a single site with a small IT team, already on Microsoft Azure or AWS, holding design files, medical imaging, CAD and CAM assets, media libraries, and case records that would be expensive or impossible to recreate. They carry enterprise-grade risk on commodity-grade infrastructure, and the market has largely asked them to choose which compromise they prefer. Panzura Express is built for them.
COMMODITY APPLIANCES
Affordable and familiar, with no immutability, no real-time threat detection, and no route to AI. Replacing one means a hardware refresh cycle every few years and significant IT burden.

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PANZURA EXPRESS
Immutable snapshots, real-time threat control, search and audit, and Copilot-ready file data in one license — deployed by a certified Panzura partner, on infrastructure you already own with fit-for-purpose control.

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MULTI-SITE CLOUDFS
The full Panzura CloudFS file platform for organizations collaborating across many offices. Panzura Express customers can arrive here by changing a license, not by migrating. You decide when you're ready.

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Under the Hood

One authoritative data set. Nothing to keep in sync.

The conventional way to get security analytics and AI out of a file share is to make copies of it — a backup target, a separate search index, an ingestion pipeline for the AI tool. Each copy is another thing to license, another thing to secure, and another thing that drifts out of date. Panzura Express keeps one authoritative, immutable copy of the data in object storage and layers everything else on top of it. Panzura Data Services and Panzura Nexus read the same file system users are working in, which is why threat detection sees live activity and Copilot answers reflect the permissions in force right now.

Image: Panzura Express architecture: One authoritative data set with security and AI layered on top of it.

 

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Mapped to What It Does and Why

Capabilities and why they matter most.

A small IT team is rarely short on skill. What it lacks is flexibility — one person on leave, one incident on a weekend or Friday afternoon, and there is no second person to hand it to. That constraint is what Panzura Express is designed around. Each capability removes work that would otherwise need a specialist, a separate product, or an outside consultant. That includes recovering from an attack without running a restore project, proving access history without assembling logs by hand, finding a file without knowing where it was saved, and adding capacity without a hardware cycle. The events that bring these organizations to Panzura Express are usually a storage system reaching the end of its life, a security concern or incident, or a compliance requirement.

Panzura Express Capability
What It Does
Why It Matters
Immutable snapshots, 60-second RPO
Continuous point-in-time copies that cannot be altered or deleted
Recovery without paying, and without losing a day's work
AI-powered Threat Control
Monitors file behavior and flags exfiltration, mass deletion, and anomalous access
Detection during the attack rather than the morning after
File activity audit
Records who accessed what, when, across the estate
Access history and retention evidence for a compliance review
Estate-wide search
Finds files by content and metadata from one console
No dedicated storage admin required to answer "where is it"
Panzura Nexus with Copilot
Natural-language questions answered from governed file data
Institutional knowledge usable by AI without a data pipeline
Cloud-native architecture
Runs on customer or partner virtual hosts against S3-compatible storage
No proprietary hardware, no forklift refresh cycle
License-based expansion
Capacity and multi-site growth applied as a license change
Growth without a migration project or re-platforming

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NOTHING TO RE-BUY, NOTHING TO RE-LEARN

Panzura Express is not a smaller solution. It's the entire CloudFS portfolio.

Every storage decision carries a second, quieter decision inside it: what happens when you outgrow this one. For a single-site organization that usually means a migration project — re-evaluating vendors, negotiating a new contract, planning a cutover window, moving the data, absorbing the risk of moving it, and retraining the people who run it. It also arrives at the worst possible moment, because the thing that made you outgrow one site is usually a second site, which is already a project of its own.

Panzura Express takes that decision off the table. It offers the same core functionality as multi-site Panzura CloudFS under a single-site license — the same code, running the same way, managed from the same console. When a second office opens, adding capacity or sites is applied as a license change. No forklift hardware upgrade, no re-platforming, no data migration, no evaluation cycle.

Express is where a Panzura customer starts, not a different product they will one day have to leave.

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Growing past one site
Replacing a commodity NAS
With Panzura Express
Hardware
Forklift refresh, new appliances, disposal
None — capacity applied by license
Data
Migration project, cutover window, risk
No migration; data stays where it is
Administration
New console, new policies, retraining
Same interface, same policies
Security posture
Rebuilt or re-purchased separately
Carries forward unchanged

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Go Deeper

Discover Panzura Express with these resources.

Explore the capabilities Panzura Express in detail. Our blog series covers what ships in each tier, the virtual host and object storage requirements, and what your partner provides. Lean back and learn more at your own pace.

 
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Panzura Express and Why Single-Site Organizations are the Real Ransomware Target

The firms most convinced they're too small to be hit are getting hit most often. Here's where the risk concentrates below 300 employees — and what Panzura CloudFS changes about surviving it. The research is clear that these organizations are at dramatically heighted risk.

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Panzura Express and Flexible Growth from One Office to Many Without Migration or a Ceiling

Most storage systems make you migrate to grow. Here is how a license-based path turns the second-site project into a line-item change — and what the base-rate migration actually costs. Understand how a licensed-based growth path works with Panzura Express.

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Panzura Express and Panzura Nexus Give Small- and Mid-Sized Firms AI File Intelligence

Mid-market firms are paying for Microsoft 365 Copilot and getting thin answers, because their competitive knowledge sits in files Copilot can't see. Panzura Express bundles CloudFS and Nexus into one license that gives a lean team enterprise-class AI file intelligence 

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For Panzura Partners

Sell it. Deploy it. Own the relationship.

Panzura Express is sold and deployed exclusively through partners. If you serve mid-market organizations and want a fixed-price file data bundle you can quote with the TCO math already done, and want to deploy and support it with recurring margin, we should talk. Existing partners can find enablement, deal registration, a partner-exclusive Panzura Express TCO calculator, and other resources in the Partner Portal.
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