Until I got a detailed briefing from Panzura’s Randy Chow the other day, I had lumped Panzura into the cloud storage gateway category. While their Alto controllers and panOS can use a public cloud provider like Amazon S3 or Nirvanix as a storage back end, Panzura’s value proposition isn’t providing an on-ramp to public cloud storage but a true distributed file system that can be accessed simultaneously from multiple locations.
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