Axway AMPLIFY Syncplicity vs Panzura CloudFS

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great application to backup your data automatically to the cloud and then access later. The automatic restore of certain folders is handy and one less thing to worry about when you're setting up a new PC again. I haven't really encountered any issues with Syncplicity to have any thoughts where it could be improved or where it wouldn't work.

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Ben Liebowitz

Senior Systems Engineer

Associated PressMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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Panzura works well for companies that have a high amount of data with cross site collaboration being done. The caching ensures you don't need huge investments of storage at each site and the cloud storage ensures high availability over what can be done locally. Also helps eliminate duplicate data across sites and/or small variations in the same data.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

By default, it is setup to backup my Desktop Shortcuts, My Documents, and my Internet Explorer Favorites folders. When I sign into a new PC, it automatically syncs these items, making it easy for my data to travel with me.
I'm able to easily share my items/folders with coworkers, granting them read or read/write access as required.
I like that items that are shared with me allow me to choose to sync them to my PC or not. This allows me to sync smaller items like documents and spreadsheets, but keep things like webex recordings stored in the cloud and not using up gigabtyes of space on my PC. :)
I like that, during times when I want to free up resources, I can pause the syncing of files.

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Ben Liebowitz

Senior Systems Engineer

Associated PressMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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Real time file locking
Backup and recovery
Easy access to all your files

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

I would appreciate it if it backed up more than just Desktop, Favorites and Documents by default. I'm not sure if this was something chosen by my employer, but it would be nice if the whole profile folder was backed up by default, so my pictures, music, and videos folders were included.

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Ben Liebowitz

Senior Systems Engineer

Associated PressMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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I would like to see more connectors. Tie in to traditional block storage or NAS. Additional cloud connectors to products like Hitachi Content Platform.
I would like to see a collaborative product created between Panzura and Riverbed. I envision an almost perfect small footprint ROBO solution where Riverbed provides the compute+WAN optimization and Panzura provides the storage/risiliancy components. Combine the boxes into a single 4U solution and you have a near perfect product for remote offices.

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Rob Clendenin

Storage Engineer

Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Panzura CloudFS 10.0

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Hands down support is the best part of Panzura. Their techs are always helpful, always knowledgeable, and consistently solve complex problems quickly. You can definitely tell they hire their support folks from the top tier of other companies and they go above and beyond what I have come to expect in terms of support compared to other companies.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I use CrashPlan for my personal PC at home. I think both products have their pluses and minuses. Both products allow you to backup your selected data to the cloud. CrashPlan doesn't easily allow for file sharing (CrashPlan isn't really a collaboration tool as much as it is a backup tool). Both products have easy restore options. However Syncplicity automatically restoring certain data when syncing with a new PC is very handy and a feature that CrashPlan doesn't offer

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Ben Liebowitz

Senior Systems Engineer

Associated PressMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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There are several other devices but Panzura is best of class.

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

The ease of use saves me a lot of time.
Being able to easily share files with my coworkers also saves me time.
This allowed my company to reduce the size of our file server and in doing so, reduced our storage budget.

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Ben Liebowitz

Senior Systems Engineer

Associated PressMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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Exceptional positive impact on availability - as users move so do their files.
Panzura+DFS allowed for simple chargeback models to be implemented.

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Rob Clendenin

Storage Engineer

Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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Axway AMPLIFY Syncplicity vs Panzura CloudFS