Japanese Company SCSK Reselling Panzura

Panzura, Inc. and SCSK Corporation, an IT service company in Japan, announced a partnership to enable SCSK to deliver Panzura’s products in the Japanese market.

This alliance will solve cross-site collaboration challenges for distributed organizations while also enabling IT infrastructure consolidation by eliminating the need for local storage and reducing and even eliminating the need for WAN optimization and MPLS networking.

With the increasing needs of global organizations, there has never been a greater demand for technology to provide cloud integration and NAS-like functionality in a simple-to-use architecture that scales across locations, capacity and users. This enables teams to collaborate and feel as though they are working in the same room no matter where offices are located.

For example, Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and manufacturing CAD users working within Autodesk, Inc. and Solidworks Corp. applications across distributed locations face either long open and sync time or the overhead of reconciling different versions of files. Recognizing this challenge, SCSK’s partnership with Panzura is the next step to deliver a cross-site collaboration solution to its customers that use these types of applications, while also reducing the cost of IT infrastructure.

“Our customers want the economic benefits of the cloud and the ability to have their applications work across sites as fast as they do at a single site,” said Naoki Ike, executive officer GM, IT engineering division, IT platform solutions group. “We now have the exact solution with our partnership with Panzura that meets our customers’ needs. IT departments are empowered with the shift for the cloud to become all tiers of storage, decreasing hefty storage costs and gaining full advantage of cross-site collaboration.“

Panzura’s Global Locking File System enables customers to collapse storage and networking into the cloud with security that has FIPS 140-2 certification. By using the cloud for all file storage and caching active data on cloud controllers, it eliminates the need for local storage as well as reduces or eliminates the need for WAN optimization and MPLS networking – freeing users from costly, antiquated systems that don’t fully solve latency issues or facilitate collaboration. For users needing cloud VDI or to use cloud compute for other applications, Panzura’s new SkyBridge solution co-locates a consistent, locking file system in the cloud that is identical to the file system in the corporate datacenter(s) and eliminates networking challenges in between.

“Panzura has a proven track record for transforming the way distributed global teams work. Our technology reduces application sync time of users in distributed sites from 20mn to 10s, a benefit that enables our users to work together on large applications and cross-site projects,” said Barry Phillips, CMO, Panzura. “We now have the opportunity to extend this capability through our partnership and make our foray into the Japanese market with SCSK, a company known for only working with high-quality, well-tested technology solutions like ours.“