Panzura Freedom Hybrid Cloud Storage Platform Integrates With Docker

Panzura, Inc. announced that the Freedom hybrid cloud storage platform now integrates with Docker.

With Freedom, DevOps professionals can confidently move and deploy containers in any cloud and any location leveraging persistent and mobile storage for Docker. In addition, customers can securely deploy global, private registries by pushing the container image to the Docker Registry once, and automatically distributing it globally.

According to the Portworx, Inc. 2017 Annual Container Adoption Survey, “Containers continue to grow in relevance with 32% of companies spending $500,000 or more a year on license and usage fees for container technologies, up from a reported 5% last year.“⁽¹⁾ Gartner, Inc.’s Market Guide for Container Management Software states, “By 2020, more than 50% of global enterprises will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 20% today.“⁽²⁾

“Containers are transforming how organizations develop, deploy, and move applications, but without persistent, mobile storage, enterprises will never be able to realize the potential of Docker,” said Patrick Harr, CEO, Panzura. “We do for data what Docker does for compute by making the data persistent and mobile for wherever Docker is deployed – data center, cloud, or multi-cloud.“

Legacy storage technologies have not kept up with the compute advancements that containers enable. In a legacy storage environment, persistent data is only available locally, which isolates a container execution in a single location or cloud.

Because Freedom makes data mobile and persistent globally, customers can execute containers anywhere and anytime across data centers and clouds with consistency and confidence. Customers are also able to build once and deploy automatically, so they can shorten development cycles and time-to-market while reducing storage costs by up to 70%.

Freedom is underpinned by the company’s CloudFS, an enterprise file system purpose-built for the cloud. It delivers performance enterprise file services for SMB, NFS, HTTP, and Docker container workloads with integrated client and mobile access.

Key technologies that CloudFS brings to Docker include:

Distributed global namespace, a universal file directory that uniquely eliminates islands of storage while reducing cost and complexity with a single, unified view of the files across clouds and data centers.
SmartSync, a patented technology, making data persistent and mobile. Real-time metadata synchronization keeps files constantly synchronized across sites. It copies files in real-time from any location to any other location without copying the data. Only the metadata is copied, which contains global deduplication keys and cloud references.
Distributed file and byte-range locking, another patented technology, makes it possible for data to be consistently available globally.
Encryption, both for data at rest and data in transit, delivers high level of cloud data protection.