Panzura Assigned Three Patents

Panzura, Inc. has been awarded three patents for its proprietary innovation by the United States Patent and Trademark Office:

• "Global Deduplication File System" under US Patent No. 8,306,948
• "Efficient Cloud Network Attached Storage" under US Patent No. 8,341,363
• "Forwarding File-system-Level Information to a Storage Management System" under US Patent No. 8,356,016

The new patents recognize the underlying technology of the Panzura OS, which forms the core of its Global Cloud Storage System: the storage solution to bring advanced NAS capabilities to a distributed, cloud-integrated storage tier, providing a globally-distributed storage system with LAN-like performance.

"Global Deduplication File System" covers techniques for exchanging deduplication data among devices to reduce the amount of duplicate data that is stored in a distributed file system, including extensive use of snapshot and metadata sharing. The uniqueness of this technology stems from its truly global implementation across geographically-dispersed locations on a massive scale.

"Efficient Cloud Network Attached Storage" covers techniques for sending incremental data and metadata snapshots between a federation of cloud controllers that cache and ensure data consistency for data stored in a distributed file-system.

"Forwarding File-System-Level Information to a Storage Management System" covers techniques for forwarding file-system-level requests received by an existing application-layer network protocol implementation to a distributed storage management system, thereby presenting an abstraction of one global, extensible file-system while preserving the abstraction of high-speed local data access.

"We are proud that the hard work and outstanding innovation of our engineering team has been recognized and validated by the US Patent and Trademark Office," said Randy Chou, CEO of Panzura. "These patents are further validation that our solution is uniquely capable of addressing the demands of the modern globally-distributed enterprise with unparalleled leading edge-technology."