Case Study: Packers Plus achieves data center independence and global collaboration with Panzura Freedom Collaboration

Packers Plus Boosts Productivity and Empowers Collaboration

Packers Plus is a Calgary-based oilfield services and manufacturing company (≈430 employees) that creates completion technologies for wells worldwide. Facing exhausted on‑premises storage, costly and hard-to-manage DFSR replication, and no reliable file locking across dispersed offices, Packers Plus needed a cloud‑first, globally collaborative solution to support growth and streamline engineering workflows.

They implemented Panzura Freedom Collaboration (Freedom NAS, Freedom Collaboration & Vizion FSS on Azure), cutting their on‑prem footprint by about 50% and removing dependence on physical data centers. The solution delivers pay‑as‑you‑go scalability, global file locking and a single source of truth—eliminating version conflicts, improving cross‑site collaboration, and producing measurable cost and operational efficiencies.

Packers Plus

Jared Gudnason

Sr. Infrastructure Architect