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Panzura plants file system atop VMware's vCloud Air

Turning it into a ‘globally distributed file system’ apparently

Local Area Network to Wide Area Network

The company has made its Cloud Controllers available on vCloud Air, turning it into a "globally distributed file system and enabling vCloud Air to appear like it is just another room of the corporate data centre."

Applications developed to run within the corporate data centre can now run with no change in vCloud Air. Panzura supports both object storage options in vCloud Air; EMC and Google Cloud Storage.

The Cloud Controller set up, Panzura claims, "removes the need for WAN Optimisation and expensive MPLS networks between offices. Global file locking enables applications built for a Local Area Network to work just as well over a Wide Area Network, taking CAD file open times from 20-40 minutes to 10-20 seconds".

It says its deduplication has reduced Electronic Arts (EA) data footprint from 1.5PB to only 45TB, a 33.3:1 data reduction ration – but your mileage may well vary as they say, and unless it resembles EA’s data almost certainly will.

VMware vCloud Air customers will also have access to Panzura SkyBridge, and Panzura CEO and co-founder Randy Chou's prepared quote said: “The Panzura Global File System and Panzura SkyBridge create an extension of the corporate data centre into vCloud Air so that applications can run in the cloud, in the data centre, or in both locations.”

Cloud services veep Matthew Lodge at VMware also had a ready prepped quote: "vCloud Air ... can function as an extension of your existing VMware vSphere data centre and run all the same applications. Panzura extends that to storage, where vCloud Air Object Storage service is just an extension of your data centre shared file system".

You’ll find Panzura in the Elite tier of the vCloud Air ISV program and listed on the VMware Solution Exchange. Get a Cloud Controller datasheet here.

Talk to Panzura or one if its resellers to find out more about filing operations on vCloud Air. ®

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