Hybrid Cloud File and Data Services Platforms
Panzura’s global cloud file system transforms cloud storage into high-performance enterprise file systems by giving distributed teams rapid, secure file access to a single, authoritative data source. Say goodbye to NAS storage for every office – by delivering one file system across hundreds of offices, Panzura CloudFS™ allows users to work together as if they were in the same room.
Panzura solves the specific challenges that Buildings & Infrastructure and Product Design & Engineering firms face when using a distributed workforce to collaborate using applications like Revit, AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
Panzura CloudFS is a high-performance hybrid cloud global file system that utilizes a patented distributed full-mesh peer-to-peer architecture to eliminate the complexities of fragmented multi-cloud environments. By providing native multi-protocol access (SMB, NFS, and S3), the platform consolidates data across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises storage into a single, authoritative source of truth. This unified approach enables seamless multi-site collaboration with real-time global file locking, allowing AEC firms to engage in frictionless co-authoring while accelerating project delivery by 15–20%.
The platform prioritizes elite security and cost efficiency as the only solution with FIPS 140-3 certification and AI-powered threat detection. Its immutable storage design renders ransomware ineffective, supporting an industry-leading 60-second Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with zero data loss. Furthermore, CloudFS transforms hybrid cloud storage into a scalable, AI-ready asset that helps organizations achieve up to a 70–80% reduction in storage and bandwidth costs.
Forget the headache of "version conflicts" or accidentally overwriting a teammate's work. Our system allows your team to work on the same complex design files at the same time from anywhere in the world. It locks only the specific part of the file someone is editing, so work stays fluid and organised.
Cyberattacks are a massive threat to the industry. We protect your data with a "digital vault" that can’t be deleted or changed by hackers. Our AI monitors for suspicious behavior and, in the event of an attack, can restore your files to exactly where they were just 60 seconds prior.
Your past project data is a goldmine. We make it easy for AI tools to "read" your history without moving or copying files. This helps you write better proposals, spot risks before they happen, and learn from previous project performance to increase your margins.
Traditional storage is expensive and repetitive. Our tech removes duplicate data, shrinking your storage needs by up to 80%. Because we charge based on how much data you have—not how many people use it—you can add as many contractors or staff as you need without your bill skyrocketing.
Panzura Symphony is a data services platform that harmonizes complex unstructured data with business outcomes through a single pane of glass. It supports diverse file systems and protocols across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Wasabi. By augmenting Panzura Data Services and CloudFS, Symphony extends visibility and control to the "next ring" of unstructured data—the 90% of file data typically left unmanaged—to help organizations achieve radical agility in their digital transformation.
Using a unified dashboard, the platform enables automated, exabyte-scale data discovery, risk assessment, and dynamic movement orchestration. Leaders can apply governance policies in seconds to automate AI pipelines and data archiving while preserving original namespaces, security, and metadata. This transparent integration provides autonomous, on-demand content streaming, resulting in dramatically reduced storage costs, more efficient workflows, and a proactive, compliant data posture.
Connect, identify, inspect, and evaluate your entire structured and unstructured data estate at exabyte scale, for better security, faster insights, and more informed decisions. Create structure with metadata by extracting and recording relevant, searchable, and actionable intelligence in a queryable metadata catalog for rapid analysis. Automatically add context to your files using extended file attributes to create searchable tags, enabling scanning beyond your metadata catalog.
Symphony puts organizations back in control of data across their array of storage environments, slashing exposure by seeing and correcting risks, and proving compliance with regulations, service level agreements (SLAs), and board-level mandates. From over permissioned files to inappropriate file retention, Symphony lets organizations see into their file blind spots before they can be exploited by malicious actors or pose legal risk.
Put data where it needs to be, from tiering that reduces storage costs based on file age or temperature and other characteristics to archiving project data once it’s been tagged, and accelerating large-scale data migrations. Unlike other data analysis, risk identification, or security tools, Symphony’s wide-reaching ability to assess, analyze, enrich data, and highlight risks is matched by automated action and remediation. Technologists can create and enforce policies for data placement, and instruct Symphony when to enforce the policies to keep data costs and risks low.
Traditional storage is expensive and repetitive. Our tech removes duplicate data, shrinking your storage needs by up to 80%. Because we charge based on how much data you have—not how many people use it—you can add as many contractors or staff as you need without your bill skyrocketing.
With Panzura, even the largest files typically open in under 10 seconds, from any location across your entire global cloud network. That’s because Panzura stores files as a single source of truth in the cloud while making cached versions available on local filers. This hybrid cloud approach leverages local processing power to deliver a legacy NAS experience.
Panzura’s unique real time file locking capability enforces a global file lock, where the entire file can only be edited by one user at a time. And, where applications like Revit and AutoCAD support it, byte-range locking means just the file elements currently being edited are locked, allowing your global teams to work collaboratively.
Panzura's patented technology leverages the speed of local flash storage to deliver real time file responses. Minimise bandwidth demands and time to sync by transmitting only altered portions of files simultaneously to the cloud and to every local filer. As a result, even the largest files are updated in near real time.
Panzura consolidates unstructured data storage, archive, backup, and disaster recovery in the cloud. Given the infrastructure demands for traditional NAS to accommodate files and backups for Buildings & Infrastructure and Product Design & Engineering Industries firms, switching to Panzura and cloud storage can result in savings of up to 70%.
Panzura’s simultaneous bursting data sync provides near real time updates across your entire organisation. Every 60 seconds, every site is synced to the cloud, and to each other, at the same time. Whether you have 5 sites or 500, each site always has an up-to-the-minute version of every file.
Panzura guards your intellectual property using the toughest security measures available. The global cloud file solution is protected by AES-256 CBC on the Panzura filer and dual encrypted with TLS 1.2 while your data is in transit between the local filer and your cloud storage.
Panzura's natively integrated enterprise file sync and share provides seamless access to your cloud data with enterprise-level security, even when you can’t be in the office.
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Continuous Process Improvement and Smarter Data Storage
Read moreWhen the UK’s leading independent planning and design consultancy began to exhaust their on-premise storage and could no longer work collaboratively across their 13 offices, they knew they needed a solution that would allow them to leverage cloud technology.
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