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IBM Signs Software Reseller Agreement with Panzura

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Modernize Your OLD NAS: IBM Signs Software Reseller Agreement with Panzura

Traditional NAS has been great but now that we are seeing huge growth in the unstructured data space, the systems simply can’t keep up. The cost to protect through snapshot, backups, replication can be even more of a cost and burden. One way to simplify your protection scheme is to move to a platform that doesn’t require multiple copies to protect. IBM Cloud Object Storage uses a method called geo-dispersal that creates a 12 9s’ available platform with no snaps, backups or replication. 

Panzura and IBM have inked a new deal where IBM can sell the Freedom Cloud NAS with the object storage platform, COS. This agreement gives IBM a new avenue for not just a NAS front end but a way to migrate off expensive Netapp and Isilon file shares.  This easy way to migrate file storage to IBM COS without interruption to workflows or applications. Panzura makes file-based apps cloud-capable and available on COS, no rewrite needed. Once deployed, the combination of Freedom NAS and COS provides a single source of truth for converged primary and secondary file data while eliminating costly backup and data recovery workflows.

Panzura Freedom NAS and IBM COS deliver: 

  • High performance NFS/SMB file services
  • Integrated backup, cloud DR and data protection
  • Encrypted data in flight and at rest
  • Infinite scale and durability of the IBM COS
  • Automated, API-driven workflows
  • Search and analytics

With unstructured data accounting for 80% of all data created by 2020, enterprise companies looking to unlock the power of that data require the scale and durability of a modern object store with the performance and features of a traditional NAS solution,” said Patrick Harr, CEO, Panzura. “Panzura is the only enterprise high-performance file services solution built for IBM COS. Our partnership with IBM enables enterprise customers to easily migrate their file-based applications without rewrite, converge their primary and secondary storage and collaborate globally from a single, scalable platform.

The combination of Freedom NAS and COS includes:

  • Rendering and content creation for media and entertainment
  • Processing genomics for life sciences
  • Running simulations and archiving data for financial services
  • Seismic data processing for oil and gas
  • Medical imaging storage and analytics for healthcare
  • EDA simulations for engineering
  • Cross-site collaboration for CAD/CAM
  • File shares and home directories
  • Database and VM backups in the cloud
  • Cloud DR and long-term archival of critical file data

For more information on the Panzura Freedom NAS go here: https://panzura.com/why-panzura/

For more information on COS go here: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage

 


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