Panzura Named a Representative Vendor for Third Consecutive Year in the Gartner® Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Panzura has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage [1] for the third consecutive year. Panzura considers this an acknowledgement of the leadership role of Panzura CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform in the evolving landscape where hybrid cloud capabilities and artificial intelligence (AI) are converging to transform business operations.
The recognition comes as Gartner forecasts a significant surge in adoption, projecting that "by 2028, 60% of I&O leaders will implement hybrid cloud file deployments, up from 25% recorded in early 2024." The projection aligns with findings from the 2024 Gartner Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure Survey, cited in the guide, "according to the survey, over half of the I&O leaders, precisely 63%, reported that their enterprises are actively managing hybrid cloud infrastructure." Technologists are recognizing the tangible benefits of proactive disaster recovery, enhanced performance, and superior availability – all critical tenets of modern data management strategies.
"In Panzura's view, the Gartner Market Guide provides validation of our vision for CloudFS, where data flows seamlessly from core to edge to cloud. In a world where every organization is becoming data centric, CloudFS drives true competitive advantage through cost optimization, ironclad resilience, and borderless data access," said Petra Davidson, Head of Global Marketing, Panzura.
Setting New Standards in Hybrid Cloud File Services
Over the past year, Panzura has accelerated its innovation cadence, introducing groundbreaking capabilities within CloudFS 8.5 Adapt that further its ability to address critical market needs such as business continuity. According to the Gartner guide, "hybrid cloud storage enhances business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities."
These advancements include:
- Instant Node: Revolutionizing business continuity, Instant Node enables the fast deployment, restoration, or migration of CloudFS edge instances in under 5 minutes – a contrast to industry averages of 4-8 hours. This capability minimizes downtime during disruptive events and offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional high-availability solutions, ensuring uninterrupted access to data at the edge.
- Regional Store: Optimizing data locality for geographically distributed teams, Regional Store allows the synchronization of data to up to four additional regional cloud buckets. Serving uncached files from the nearest location significantly reduces latency and egress costs, particularly benefiting data-intensive workflows like AI and machine learning (ML) pipelines. The Gartner guide states that, "Two-way synchronization enables enterprises to use the elastic nature of the compute infrastructure found among cloud service providers."
- Enhanced Cloud Tiering: Providing granular control over storage costs and performance, CloudFS now offers intelligent tiering across different Microsoft Azure storage classes and direct assignment of data to cost-optimized AWS storage tiers, including support for AWS Glacier Instant Retrieval. Regarding hybrid cloud data services, the Gartner guide explains, "Cost efficiency is another benefit, as organizations can leverage the cloud for high-demand periods and use on-premises infrastructure for steady-state operations."
- Expanded Virtualization Support: Increasing deployment flexibility and cost savings through support for additional virtualization platforms, including Linux KVM.
- Advanced Security and Access Controls: Strengthening security posture and simplifying user management through enhanced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with fine-grained permissions within the CloudFS web interface and seamless integration with identity providers like OKTA via sophisticated single sign-on (SSO).
- FIPS 140-3 Certification: Demonstrating an unparalleled commitment to security and compliance, Panzura CloudFS is the only hybrid cloud file storage solution to achieve the stringent FIPS 140-3 certification for its core data encryption and key management processes. This certification underscores Panzura's dedication to providing the highest levels of data protection, a critical requirement when operating in regulated industries such as those requiring rigorous CMMC 2.0 certification.
Meeting the Demands of Hybrid Cloud and AI
The Gartner Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage notes, "With the rise of generative AI deployments, the importance of long-term hybrid cloud services has increased proportionally to the growth in and volume of data at the edge."
Panzura CloudFS addresses the growing importance of hybrid cloud storage in AI initiatives by enabling the rapid transfer of data from edge locations into a consolidated, deduplicated dataset accessible by LLMs. Data preparation for AI pipelines depends on seamless data availability and integration from various sources, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and CloudFS delivers access to the comprehensive datasets needed by technologists and data teams.
The CloudFS platform is also engineered to address the challenges of hybrid cloud integration, a top concern for I&O leaders seeking seamless data services across heterogeneous environments. The platform's deep integration with leading cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and others — while remaining storage agnostic — provides a unified and consistent file experience. It enables simultaneous co-authoring and collaboration with advanced features such as patented global deduplication and real-time file and byte-range locking.
Furthermore, its immutable architecture and near real time ransomware detection provides an unassailable layer of defense against ransomware, exfiltration, and other data loss scenarios, directly addressing the escalating security threats faced by enterprises.
The Gartner Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage asserts, "Instead of one-way data movement, early adopters of hybrid cloud storage are using multidirectional synchronization of data between the edge, core data center and public cloud." From the Panzura perspective, CloudFS supports the modern enterprise need for multi-directional data flow.
Enabling the Future of File Data Services
These technological advancements emphasize the proactive approach of CloudFS toward addressing the evolving demands of the hybrid cloud landscape. The company says this is reflective of Gartner's emphasis on solutions that offer value-added data services beyond mere storage.
In Panzura's view, for instance, CloudFS supports the industry transition where, according to Gartner, "As migration to the cloud continues, I&O teams are transforming from providers of data center infrastructure to providers of data management services everywhere."
The platform delivers the necessary file data infrastructure that supports data availability, scalability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency. This includes critical areas cited by the Gartner Market Guide like cyber resilience, lifecycle management, and seamless data mobility. Delivering these capabilities, Panzura CloudFS allows enterprise teams to build highly flexible and resilient file data strategies that are ready for the challenges and opportunities of an AI-driven future.
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[1] Gartner, Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage, Julia Palmer, Chandra Mukhyala, April 7, 2025
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