Case Study: Hanson Professional Services saves thousands of hours with Panzura CloudFS

Hanson Professional Services cuts file restore time by 90% with Panzura

Hanson Professional Services, an engineering firm with over 500 employees across the USA, faced a major challenge with its distributed file storage. Its IT team was spending hundreds of hours manually syncing CAD files between offices, a slow process that led to lost work and hindered real-time collaboration. This inefficient system also required costly and cumbersome local backups at each site.

Panzura implemented its CloudFS solution to create a globally available file system with cloud storage. This allowed Hanson's engineers to collaborate on projects in real time from different locations while working from a single, authoritative data set. The solution from Panzura delivered dramatic results: it saved thousands of IT hours, reduced file restore time by 90%, and eliminated over $100,000 in annual costs related to backup tapes, software maintenance, and personnel.

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