Panzura CloudFS Finalist in Cloud Awards 2024-2025

Panzura, LLC announced that its CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform has been named a finalist in The Cloud Awards 2024-25 under the Best Cloud Data Management Solution category.

In its 14th year, the highly competitive, internationally recognized awards program celebrates the latest achievements and breakthroughs in cloud computing.

“The Cloud Awards recognizes our relentless pursuit of innovation and excellence. CloudFS empowers the enterprise to achieve unprecedented levels of data control, resiliency, and availability. This is a proud moment for all of us at Panzura, as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in unstructured data management and hybrid cloud storage,” said Dan Waldschmidt, CEO. “This is a proud moment for all of us at Panzura, as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in unstructured data management and hybrid cloud storage.“

This year’s program saw entries from organizations of all sizes across the globe, including the US, Canada, the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. Panzura joins distinguished finalists in other categories including Broadcom, Cloudera, CrowdStrike, Dynatrace, IBM, PagerDuty, RedHat, and Vast Data. The winners will be announced on January 14, 2025, following the final round of judging.

Panzura CloudFS integrates with cloud storage providers like Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform, offering users hybrid cloud file access, simultaneous co-authoring, and global collaboration.

Its advanced features, such as global de-dupe and real-time file locking, combined with immutability to protect vs. ransomware and other forms of malicious and unintentional data loss, make it a solution for modern enterprises. Equally, the platform allows organizations to use on-premises object stores such as Cloudian.

CloudFS is designed to optimize data transfer and processing, which directly benefits AI workloads. Providing a global namespace and accelerating data access, it can speed up AI model training and inference, leading to faster time-to-insight.

“Panzura’s progress to this stage is a testament to the outstanding work they have carried out in their field. I’d like to wish all of our finalists well as we head into the final round of judging to determine our winners,” said James Williams, CEO, The Cloud Awards.

“The quality of the shortlist was particularly high this year, making it a truly tremendous achievement to be named a finalist, having undergone a rigorous round of assessment from our judges,” said Williams.

The Cloud Awards program will return to welcome new submissions in Fall 2025, to continue recognizing excellence in cloud computing solutions. It covers multiple facets of cloud computing, including overall excellence, systems and processes, certain technologies, pieces of work, and workplace excellence.

About The Cloud Awards
The Cloud Awards is an international program which has been recognizing and honoring industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing since 2011. The Cloud Awards comprises 5 awards programs, each celebrating success across cloud computing, SaaS, cloud security, AI, and FinTech. Winners are selected by a judging panel of international industry experts.