Panzura CloudFS & Symphony

I used Panzura CloudFS  for about five years in my current role. My main use case for Panzura CloudFS  was that our organization had team members situated around the world, making it an excellent platform to collaborate with no override, no duplication, and the ability to work in one space where there were no replicates of documents.

It was an effective way to work with the team around the world without having multiple documents across emails and other communication channels.

Panzura CloudFS has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to create processes and sustain them with everything in one place, so everyone is collaborative and processes are easy to follow because everything is secure with no duplicates.

Staff can utilize it without having to look in multiple areas, as it is just in the cloud.

I have noticed specific outcomes with Panzura CloudFS, such as increased productivity since my team was scattered all over the world and worked in different time zones. We could all work at different times and stayed on top of our deadlines, which was key.

The best features Panzura CloudFS offers include having everything in one place, no duplication, and my biggest feature is recovery. If I feel like I have lost something, I can recover it with ease, which is one of my favorite features because I can be clumsy at times.

The file recovery feature helped me specifically because there were times where I had to restore things, and its recovery feature was amazing for recovering information I needed, which I thought was lost until I learned about the feature and would always rely on it if there was a mistake on my end.

All of the features stand out for me, including locking a file, global access for the organization, the security piece, and the privacy piece. All were amazing, and everything was in one place and secure, which are things I would highlight.

I think Panzura CloudFS is a really good program that keeps everything in one place, and I would recommend it for other organizations that want to establish collaborative teamwork amongst teams worldwide, ensuring everything is secure, private, and recoverable.

I would say that improving user interface and accessibility is really key. Accessibility goes hand in hand with usability, creating multiple ways for people to use the platform, which Panzura CloudFS does a good job of, but I would recommend an audit to see if assistive technology works well with it and ensuring compliance is met.

I have been working in my field for about ten years.

Panzura CloudFS is stable.

Panzura CloudFS's scalability is excellent.

The customer support for Panzura CloudFS is very helpful, whether through email or phone communication, and it has been quite good.

We used old outdated systems such as emails and shared files, which did not work, so I would say we were very old school until we brought Panzura CloudFS into our environment.

My team did not have any issues with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, though that was handled by another team member.

I have seen a return on investment with Panzura CloudFS in terms of money saved, time saved, and fewer employees needed. Before integrating it into our processes, everything was all over the place, involving emails, Teams, Slack, and things being lost and duplicated. The introduction allowed everyone to collaborate much better, saving time and confusion while making staff more productive and collaborative.

I cannot recall evaluating other options before choosing Panzura CloudFS, but it stood out with all the functionalities and features we were looking for, being the best fit cost-wise and easy to integrate.

We collaborated in Panzura CloudFS by doing a lot of things from design to implementation for products and keeping track within Panzura CloudFS, having documents to work off and editing each other's sections, designs, and things with ease, which allowed my team members to implement that without hardships. It was a really good program in that regard.

I would advise others looking into using Panzura CloudFS to consider it if they want a solution that integrates collaborative teamwork, has everything in one place, scales up, saves time, retains information, allows recovery, and ensures privacy and security. I would rate this product an eight out of ten.

Panzura CloudFS  is our primary solution for file servers and resiliency for our file shares. We have been demoing Panzura's Symphony tool, which has demonstrated many capabilities for automating and moving data. Beyond Symphony, we consolidated every file share and NAS  in the organization over to Panzura CloudFS . It has done a great job with that.

The best feature for us is the high availability and the security peace of mind. That has been an excellent feature for us over the past few years and has really helped us out of several tight spots.

They have just addressed one of the features we were hoping for, which is colder storage tiers. They have that availability now. The only other thing beyond that is that their first-level support hasn't always been perfect. Once we have gotten up to the expert tiers, it has been great. I would suggest more training for their first-level support.

We are coming up on just about three years of using this solution.

There is some maintenance required. Occasionally, we restart a filer if there are any issues, but it is fairly lightweight as far as maintenance goes.

The scalability is great, I would rate it nine out of ten.

We have had everything from old-school self-hosted SMB file shares to NetApp . We had another solution prior as well. We have had several different offerings for our file shares. None of them do quite what Panzura CloudFS does. There are extra features with Panzura CloudFS, and it has more power than any of those tools offer.

Though I didn't own the implementation, I was present at the time. The time to value was pretty quick. We made the cutover fast, and the value from there was immediate.

We implemented as a customer without external assistance.

We have seen a return on investment. We have moved from several more expensive storage mediums into Panzura CloudFS.

I manage the costs, and while we haven't had to reevaluate the pricing since our first contract isn't up, I believe they are in line with the market, especially for the quality of product you get with Panzura CloudFS.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate this solution a nine overall.

We needed redundancy, and we needed to be able to recover, so it was both file storage and business continuity reasons.

Panzura CloudF has helped increase my network resilience. We've had regional power outages, and we have been able to continue working with files at other locations. There's been no interruption, no downtime for the other locations, so the business continuity side of it is stellar.

I would have a very high opinion of the solution's ability to provide granular snapshots. We do have situations where people accidentally delete or move files, and being able to roll those back quickly with just a right-click is a great time saver and an advantage.

The best features are the synchronization between locations, the speed at which it presents those files to the users, and phenomenal support.

My impressions of Panzura CloudFS 's ability to consolidate data are very high because they have been aggressively evolving the product, listening to their customers, and making those changes where possible. They have done an outstanding job of listening to customers and solving their problems as the product evolved.

In the five years that I've been using Panzura CloudFS , they have actually addressed issues with performance, stability, and recoverability. They are constantly evolving that product in a good way.

I don't have anything to complain about regarding Panzura CloudFS. They're developing an AI side that's supposed to be around by this fall. They're a step ahead of the game on that as well, and I really don't have any deficiencies I can point out. However, the pricing could be more competitive.

I have been using the solution for five years.

I'd have to give the stability a ten out of ten. We've had power outages and VMs crash, and we've had to rebuild those.

The scalability is definitely a ten out of ten.

A little over 400 employees work with Panzura CloudFS, and all of them interact with it at some point, those are nationwide, multiple locations.

I would rate the technical support a nine because nobody is perfect.

I don't have any firsthand experience with the other products or vendors on the market other than looking at them. I've talked to peer review folks and other engineering firms, and there were good and bad experiences with everything as you would expect, but Panzura CloudFS is the market leader in that space as far as the engineering firms are concerned for a good reason, and they do a great job.

We have Panzura CloudFS deployed at locations using VMware. We've deployed it as images locally, and we're switching to Hyper-V  because of that whole debacle with VMware's pricing.

Regarding the deployment of Panzura CloudFS, it was very simple. I've racked servers for decades now, and I've rolled stuff out and had to move data around for new equipment, and it was very easy to point it at our existing data and just pull it right in.

The deployment took approximately a week, and I made the whole switch over on a weekend. We had pre-copied the stuff off. I came in on a Saturday morning and left here at 2:00 in the afternoon. Everything was completely flipped over in 8 to 10 hours.

The solution requires maintenance from my end. Whenever they release a new version, I schedule it with them during off hours, and they go ahead and upgrade them, and I double-check everything, usually it's done in six or seven hours.

The solution was purchased through a partner purchase.

It's hard to calculate the return on investment regarding productivity, but after doing it the old-fashioned way with servers, we've seen at least an 80% return on that.

It is a little bit pricey. I would rate the cost of Panzura CloudFS an eight out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to other users simply because they have the ability to solve problems, and after you do it, you'll understand why.

I would rate Panzura CloudFS overall a nine out of ten. More competitive pricing would make the solution a ten out of ten.

My use case for Panzura CloudFS  involves having multiple offices in the United States, and we use it to share all our file structure between the offices.

Panzura CloudFS has helped to increase the network resilience by 100%. It helped us with our growth, and we have had double-digit growth for years now, and they were able to help us achieve that.

What I appreciate the most about Panzura CloudFS  is that it just works; it provides enterprise-level application across all our offices and simplifies administration. Since the product works so well, we don't have to have a lot of issues or downtime. It helps us to be more efficient and more productive.

We've been able to increase network resilience. We've had double-digit growth for years now, and Panzura helped us achieve that.

In terms of improvements for Panzura CloudFS, I would like to see the Edge feature. I would love for that feature to be usable for our company and our employees.

I have been using Panzura CloudFS since 2016, so nine years.

The stability of Panzura CloudFS is good.

The scalability of Panzura CloudFS is very good.

I have contacted the support. The quality of support from Panzura CloudFS is good; the speed is good, and they have knowledgeable staff.

The initial deployment was long with the amount of data we have. It was not difficult, it was just lengthy due to the amount of data that had to be sent to the cloud.

For the deployment of Panzura CloudFS, the number of people required really depends on the size of the company. We had two people working on our deployment.

Panzura CloudFS takes care of all the maintenance. We just schedule the outage with them.

We saw the benefits of Panzura CloudFS immediately. Our remote offices were able to share files immediately after the product went live.

The pricing of Panzura CloudFS is relevant, and their pricing is comparable to other competitors. What you get is fair pricing.

I have tested out alternatives to Panzura CloudFS in my career, however, Panzura CloudFS is the number one product we used.

I would say to a colleague who prefers using big-name software companies that Panzura CloudFS is a solid solution. It's a solution that works, it's priced appropriately, and their support is good.

On a scale from one to ten, I rate Panzura CloudFS a ten.