California State University, Northridge Opts for Panzura

Panzura, Inc. announced that California State University, Northridge
(CSUN), selected its Global Cloud Storage System to transform
its offsite backup protection process by utilizing Panzura’s encrypted cloud
storage controllers.

By leveraging Panzura’s cloud-integrated platform, CSUN streamlined its offsite
data protection efforts and reduced storage needs, while also shifting CapEx to
OpEx.

"Our goal was to increase process efficiency
and reduce storage footprint for off-site backups by eliminating tape and
avoiding use of campus-owned disk for off-site backup storage," said
Chris Olsen, senior director of infrastructure services and ISO at CSUN. "We had some initial hesitations about cloud
storage, including the cost to get data to the cloud, data security, and
controlling capacity. With Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System, we
simply pointed our Symantec NetBackup application to the Panzura
Quicksilvercloud Storage Controller and the cloud became our backup target, while
RSA 4096-bit encryption protected our data with us owning the encryption
keys. The solution was straightforward to deploy and the deduplication
exceeded our expectations."

CSUN is part of the California State University system and has 35,000 registered
students and 5,000 faculty and staff, two primary data centers, and a hot
failover environment for critical systems at CSU, Sacramento. They manage
approximately 300TB of NAS/SAN storage, protected by tape and disk
storage. Their backup processes were becoming increasingly slow and
cumbersome and they needed to transition from the endless CapEx cycle of
refreshing tape backup equipment and provisioning more capacity for offsite
data protection.

Global Cloud Storage System integrates with existing
infrastructure while providing integration of all enterprise
sites and a public or private cloud. Customers eliminate the need
for local storage for backup and archiving while enabling consolidation of distributed tier-2+ storage capacity, reduction of storage
overhead, conversion of CapEx to OpEx, and access to any data, anytime,
anywhere. Local NAS features plus military-grade encryption provide IT control and security in a cloud-integrated storage platform.

"Enterprises are finding
traditional data protection processes do not scale and cannot keep up with
modern IT requirements," said Ranajit Nevatia, VP marketing for
Panzura. "California State
University, Northridge, is leading the way in higher education toward embracing
cloud storage to reduce CapEx and management of disk storage while improving
data protection and recoverability. We are very pleased they have
selected Panzura to achieve their storage goals."