Case Study: AFRY achieves Azure cost savings and zero-downtime global collaboration with Panzura CloudFS

AFRY unifies 18,000 engineers across 100 offices with Panzura

AFRY, a global engineering and consulting firm with 18,000 employees, faced significant challenges due to its fragmented legacy file storage system. This infrastructure created data silos across its 100 international offices, hindering real-time collaboration on large design files and causing performance issues, data inconsistencies, and high IT maintenance costs. To modernize its operations and enable seamless global teamwork, AFRY partnered with Panzura for a solution.

By implementing Panzura's CloudFS, a hybrid multi-cloud file platform, AFRY unified its data into a single global file system. The solution enabled real-time collaboration with global file locking, optimized Azure storage costs by automatically moving cold data to lower tiers, and ensured business continuity with near-zero downtime migrations. As a result, Panzura helped AFRY dramatically reduce support tickets, increase productivity, and achieve significant cost savings.

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