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Panzura Achieves New Milestones in Growth, Customers, and Storage
CAMPBELL, CA, Jan 29, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage solutions,
announced it achieved record levels of revenue, customers, and
storage under management in 2012. Revenue increased by nearly 500%
over the previous year, customers grew by 700%, and customers
surpassed multiple petabytes (PBs) of storage using the Panzura
Global Cloud Storage System. Panzura's enterprise customers are
deploying its technology across their entire global infrastructure,
covering hundreds of sites with deal sizes of millions of dollars.
Panzura's adoption spanned industries, use cases, and customer
requirements, across all of our cloud partners, to wit:
-- Healthcare: Healthcare Realty (HR), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ),
national healthcare service provider, major regional hospital, leading
processor of health claims for public programs, leading healthcare
training provider, major healthcare certification organization
-- Media and Entertainment: DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Relativity Media,
global sports network, global content distribution network, world's
leading gaming company, leading home entertainment distributor,
several major cable network content providers, leading satellite TV
channel, global publishing house
-- Financial Services: Top 5 global bank, several major hedge funds
-- Government and Education: US Department of Justice, branch of other
federal department, several leading universities, leading space
research organization
"We are tremendously excited by the enthusiastic reception Panzura
solutions have received in the market," said Randy Chou, CEO of
Panzura. "Customers continue to find new ways to leverage our core
technology to meet a wide variety of storage needs in a broad array
of use cases and industries. Panzura is expanding rapidly to meet
growing demand as IT executives perceive Panzura as the only
enterprise-class platform for leveraging cloud storage across all
leading providers."
Other Panzura achievements in 2012 include:
-- Release of v3.0 with robust enterprise features including secure
enterprise-class file sharing, accelerated data transfer rates,
anywhere disaster recovery, and a broadened hardware platform
-- Successful $15M Series C round led by Opus Capital to support
International expansion, increased hiring, growth of operational
programs, and continued innovation and development of global
cloud-integrated storage solutions
-- Expansion of ecosystem partnerships, including Dell Cloud, Google
Cloud Storage, HP Cloud Services, and IBM
-- Recognized as a top innovator and leading technology by Interop, Red
Herring, and Cloud Computing Magazine winning the prestigious Best of
Interop 2012 Award for Data Center & Storage, the Red Herring
Finalist 2012 Award, and the 2013 Cloud Storage Excellence Award
-- Doubling of headcount and an associated relocation to larger
headquarters in Silicon Valley
-- Added multiple new channel partners including Trace3, Softchoice and
Technologent
-- Expansion of management team and board members with top Silicon Valley
Executives including veterans of Zynga, Riverbed, NetApp, Juniper
Networks, and Trapeze Networks to fuel rapid growth
-- Awarded multiple Global Cloud-Attached Storage Patents for proprietary
innovation covering global deduplication file system, efficient cloud
network attached storage, and forwarding file-system-level information
to storage management system
About Panzura
Panzura optimizes enterprise data storage management and
distribution in the cloud, making cloud storage simple and secure.
Panzura's revolutionary global cloud storage solution seamlessly
combines the flexibility, performance and productivity benefits of
distributed storage with the manageability, security and cost
benefits of centralized storage, overcoming fundamental
"administrator vs. user" and "budget vs. performance" conflicts. With
Panzura, data location no longer affects usage. Panzura: Cloud
Storage Made Seamless. For more information, visit www.panzura.com or
email info@panzura.com.
Connect with Panzura:
Read our blog: http://www.panzura.com/blogs
Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/panzurastorage
Panzura, Quicksilver, PZOS, and Panzura CloudFS are trademarks of
Panzura, Inc. Other trade names mentioned herein are recognized to be
the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: Panzura
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