Panzura Into Reseller Relationship With Cleversafe

From the floors of VMWorld 2013, Panzura, Inc. have entered into a strategic partnership enabling Cleversafe Inc. to sell and promote the combined solution to large-scale enterprises.

Panzura added support for Cleversafe’s Dispersed Storage (dsNet) system to create an enterprise-ready NAS storage service, with a global file system that includes snapshots, deduplication, distributed file locking, and encryption. Cleversafe solves petabyte and beyond big storage problems with distributed storage architecture, and the combined solution reduces storage costs by up to 90% while enabling secure and reliable global access and distribution.
 
The growth in unstructured data, and the trend toward globally distributed workforces, makes it imperative to provide a scalable, distributed storage infrastructure, but traditional NAS storage systems are too expensive and unwieldy to meet this demand. The combined Panzura/Cleversafe solution lets enterprise customers leverage the Cleversafe dsNet storage system for all unstructured storage requirements with Panzura providing the global file system, thereby enabling worldwide storage consolidation and distributed file sharing. In addition, the Panzura solution also provides an archiving, backup, and DR platform.
 
By applying Cleversafe’s Information Dispersal technology to slice and disperse data, single points of failure and centralized synchronization points are eliminated. This approach delivers the combination of analytics and storage in a geographically distributed single system, which enables organizations to scale big data environments to hundreds of petabytes or even exabytes.

Using Panzura Global cloud Storage Systems
in conjunction with Cleversafe dsNet provides:

• Sharing of files across all sites of a globally distributed enterprise for improved access and productivity
• Data security from military-grade encryption of data both in motion and at rest
• Integration with massively scalable cloud capacity for all unstructured file storage
• Cloud-based active archiving, backup, and DR services

"Cleversafe delivers petabytes of big storage with a huge savings on storage costs," said Russ Kennedy, VP product strategy, marketing and customer solutions, Cleversafe. "By connecting Panzura’s Global cloud Storage System to the Cleversafe storage solution, our customers get a full-featured, cloud-integrated NAS solution with a global file system and rapid data access and processing."

Panzura provides seamless NAS functionality in the cloud. Its global file system provides dynamic file locking, global deduplication, global snapshots, and local caching and pinning. This allows organizations gain control over files stored in the cloud while allowing seamless and secure access from any device anywhere. Panzura also is a partner in Cleversafe’s Solution Network, which is designed to provide customers with an ecosystem offering a cost-effective, scalable, and highly available end-to-end storage solution needed to address business requirements now and into the future.

"Cleversafe dsNet and Panzura solution will empower users with highly secure, reliable, anytime and anywhere access to files stored in enterprise cloud infrastructures," said Jim Thayer, VP of channels and business development, Panzura.  "By combining the platforms, enterprises can access and process unstructured data efficiently and quickly, with lower costs and a streamlined infrastructure."