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Healthcare Realty Replaces Citrix’s File Distribution and Sharing

By Panzura and EMC Atmos after evaluating Riverbed

Panzura,
Inc.
announced that
Healthcare Realty (HR), a real estate investment trust with more than 30
sites that integrates owning, managing and developing properties associated
with the delivery of healthcare services, has selected Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System and an EMC Atmos
private cloud to replace its global Citrix implementation for file distribution
and sharing.

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The benefits of this conversion from Citrix to a cloud-integrated global file
system include improved user satisfaction and productivity, faster data access, scalability, and data access anytime, anywhere, by anyone in the globally distributed
enterprise.

"We
really struggled with Citrix to provide our distributed users over more than 30
offices with rapid access to files we need to run our business,
" said
Robert Dillard, assistant VP for technology services at HR. "Panzura allows rapid, secure serving of
files to any user regardless of location, integrating with the cloud as a very
low cost flexible storage tier that can instantly scale to whatever capacity we
need. Users love it.
"

HR had been relying on Citrix to allow
globally distributed users to share files like MS Office documents as part of
their standard workflow but over time, users found the quality of file sharing
was poor on that platform. HR investigated several alternatives, including
Riverbed Technology, but did not find a satisfactory solution until they evaluated
Panzura, in particular the global file locking capability that prevented file
corruption from simultaneous writes. Users have responded by saying they see a
‘tremendous difference’ in performance and access, characterizing the
system responsiveness as ‘amazing.’

Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System,
comprised of the Quicksilver Cloud Storage Controller, PZOS OS, and Panzura
CloudFS global file system, appears as just another local network drive to all
users and applications worldwide. Every user can access all files, based on
permissions, across all locations with LAN-like performance. Panzura
features like a global file system, global file locking, global deduplication,
local caching/pinning, and military-grade encryption provide a local NAS
experience for users and applications while leveraging the scalability and cost
benefits of the cloud.

"We
are very pleased HR realized such strong value in the Panzura cloud storage
solution,
" said Randy Chou, CEO of Panzura. "Panzura’s robust global file system platform combined with the
scalability and cost benefits will allow HRto grow at lower cost and higher
productivity.
"

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