… Panzura …

Panzura, Inc. achieved record levels of revenue, customers, and storage under management in 2012.

Revenue increased by 500% over the previous year, customers grew by 700%, and customers surpassed multiple petabytes of storage using the Panzura Global Cloud Storage System.

Panzura’s adoption spanned industries,
use cases, and customer requirements, to wit:

• Healthcare: Healthcare Realty Trust, national healthcare service provider, regional hospital, processor of health claims for public programs, healthcare training provider, healthcare certification organization, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
• Media and Entertainment: DreamWorks Animation, Relativity Media, global sports network, global content distribution network, gaming company, home entertainment distributor, several major cable network content providers, satellite TV channel, global publishing house
• Financial Services: Top 5 global bank, several major hedge funds
• Government and Education: US Department of Justice, branch of other federal department, several universities, space research organization

"We are tremendously excited by the enthusiastic reception Panzura solutions have received in the market," said Randy Chou, CEO of Panzura. "Customers continue to find new ways to leverage our core technology to meet a wide variety of storage needs in a broad array of use cases and industries. Panzura is expanding rapidly to meet growing demand as IT executives perceive Panzura as the only enterprise-class platform for leveraging cloud storage across all leading providers."

Other Panzura achievements in 2012 include:

• Release of v3.0 with enterprise features including secure enterprise-class file sharing, accelerated data transfer rates, anywhere DR, and more
• $15M Series C round led by Opus Capital to support International expansion, increased hiring, growth of operational programs, and continued innovation and development of global cloud-integrated storage solutions
• Expansion of ecosystem partnerships, including Dell Cloud, Google Cloud Storage, HP Cloud Services, and IBM
• Recognized as a top innovator and leading technology by Interop and Red Herring, winning the Best of Interop 2012 Award for Data Center & Storage and Red Herring Finalist 2012 Award
• Relocation to larger headquarters in Silicon Valley, CA
• Support for new cloud offerings, including Amazon Glacier and an Amazon EC2 AMI
• Additions of Silicon Valley executives and board members including veterans of Zynga, Riverbed, NetApp, Juniper Networks, and Trapeze Networks
• Awarded global cloud-attached storage patents for innovation covering global de-duplication file system, cloud NAS, and forwarding file-system-level information to storage management system

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