NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs Panzura CloudFS comparison

NetApp and Panzura are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. NetApp is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.3, while Panzura is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.7. NetApp holds a 6.1% mindshare in CS, compared to Panzura’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Panzura users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

Panzura CloudFS and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP are prominent competitors in the cloud storage solutions category. Panzura CloudFS appears to have an edge in synchronization and collaboration, while NetApp stands out for storage management and cloud integration features.

Features: Panzura CloudFS offers excellent file synchronization, enterprise-level application support, and advanced collaboration tools. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides features like SnapMirror and SnapVault for storage management, robust snapshot capabilities, and strong integration with on-premises systems and multiple cloud protocols.

Room for Improvement: Panzura CloudFS needs to enhance international performance, remote access, and pricing flexibility. Users may encounter issues with file types and performance stability in large deployments. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could improve its user interface, high-availability features, and ease of cloud service integration. Licensing complexity and limited cloud platform support are also challenging.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Panzura CloudFS offers consistent, responsive technical support, although past difficulties are noted. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its deployment versatility and positive technical support but could improve in support speed and communication.

Pricing and ROI: Panzura CloudFS is perceived as costly, but users cite significant productivity gains and operational savings that justify the price for some. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while expensive due to cloud-related costs, offers cost-effectiveness through data efficiency features like compression and deduplication, benefiting larger deployments.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP delivers cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved performance, reducing storage, maintenance, and power expenses.

Sentiment score

5.1

Organizations experienced enhanced resilience, doubled performance, and productivity gains by adopting Panzura CloudFS, solving past file storage issues.

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Previously, we had latency issues with syncing up files between offices. Files were not locked, leading to overwrites which cost us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost time and revenue.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

We saw the benefits of Panzura CloudFS immediately because our remote offices were able to share files immediately after the product went live.

Dragan Lazic

Information Technology Manager at The Gateway Engineers, Inc.

Panzura CloudFS saves us a significant amount of time frequently.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP customer service is praised for expertise and responsiveness, with room for improvement in initial support.

Sentiment score

6.8

Panzura CloudFS support is praised for quick, expert assistance despite occasional delays, receiving high ratings from users.

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The support staff and the number of people they have on staff right now are truly good.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

When we have a priority-one issue, we typically receive a call within 20 to 30 minutes.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

I would give the support for Panzura CloudFS a ten out of ten because they are responsive and helpful.

Matt Sarsam

Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers scalable growth, dynamic expansion, and flexibility, though large environments face data size limitations.

Sentiment score

6.8

Panzura CloudFS is highly scalable, effortlessly supports many users across locations, with seamless deployment and dedicated support.

It wouldn't help with outages either; the scaling is manual, and there are no processes we've used to automate that for unexpected scenarios.

reviewer5948293

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Unlimited users can access the system without issues.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

From our original entry with Panzura CloudFS, we have added an additional seven sites, and deploying those additional nodes was very seamless and did not take any effort.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

The latest version, 8.0.2, has better ease of decommissioning filers and bringing new ones online.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers high stability and reliability, with users valuing performance and responsive support despite occasional minor issues.

Sentiment score

6.1

Panzura CloudFS is highly stable with rare outages and improved reliability, earning high user ratings overall.

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I would rate it a nine out of ten for stability.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

We have never had their system crash on us.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

There were times with file lock issues between filers, causing various anomalies, but with their ongoing development, these issues have improved.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

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Room For Improvement

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users seek improved scalability, integration, ease of use, and features like security, monitoring, and cloud compatibility.

Panzura CloudFS needs improvements in performance, compatibility, pricing, dashboard, alerting, licensing, Active Directory reliance, NFS service, and support.

My opinion is that support is generally very good. There are instances where they take longer to respond or resolve issues, especially when customers have urgent needs, but ultimately, resolution is achieved.

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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When something goes wrong somewhere, there should be a little bit better alerting with issues before they become a big problem.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

The GIS data formats, such as a geo database, have been found better kept outside of Panzura CloudFS.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

It would have been nice if they had offered them in increments, of 5, 10, 15, or 20 terabytes than having to get a whole chunk of 25 terabytes again for licensing purposes, which is a little costly.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

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Setup Cost

Enterprise users enjoy NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for its features despite higher costs, with discounts available for extended commitments.

Panzura CloudFS pricing is higher than competitors, lacks granular licenses, but offers negotiation flexibility and transparency.

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It did require us to purchase new hardware, however, that was not overly expensive.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

They should consider more attractive pricing for companies of our size.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

Overall, it is quite costly compared to NetApp and similar solutions.

Siva_Ram

Technical Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers reliable, flexible data protection, seamless integration, and optimized storage across diverse cloud environments.

Panzura CloudFS enhances workflows with high availability, security, and seamless collaboration, reducing storage costs and boosting productivity.

The granular ability to divide up the performance and the amount of storage you want is really fantastic.

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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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It is very reliable and very quick.

Andy Knauf

CIO at Mead and Hunt, Inc.

It helps us increase network resilience. We have a primary object library stored in the cloud and have Panzura Mirroring which allows us to place data in a secondary cloud for added resiliency.

Erin Atkinson

Senior Vice President, Technology at Halff Associates, Inc.

There is no degradation of speed because these filers have cached the data, and they are constantly swapping metadata and updating with each other, which is a very attractive method of getting us to use these applications.

Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Cloud Storage

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Backup (30th), Public Cloud Storage Services (13th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (2nd)

Panzura CloudFS

Ranking in Cloud Storage

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (3rd), NAS (9th), Cloud Storage Gateways (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 6.1%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panzura CloudFS is 4.2%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP	6.1%
Panzura CloudFS	4.2%
Other	89.7%

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Featured Reviews

Punit Waghela

Technical Specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

Offers advanced features with notable emphasis on innovation

The best features of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP include deduplication, compaction, and autonomous ransomware technology that native cloud storage solutions in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud do not support. Moreover, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows the use of multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, whereas native options may only support NFS and iSCSI. Customers already using on-premises NetApp storage such as FAS, AFF, or ASA can experience the same functionality on the cloud with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, which adds significant value. For data protection, customers can take advantage of the Snapshot technology available with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. This technology facilitates data recovery by allowing snapshots to be stored either on the same storage or on a disaster recovery (DR) storage. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps us to take snapshots and store them on the same storage, with options for migration or replication of those snapshots to different storage, including on-premises DR storage or other cloud storage, providing excellent disaster recovery capabilities.

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Roger Clark

I.T. Infrastructure Manager at Thompson Engineering, Inc.

Handles file locks effectively enabling seamless remote collaboration in global teams

It has not reduced the data storage cost. We have been trying to come up with a plan internally to archive project data at a certain time frame. However, our data continues to grow, so at the point of 25 terabytes, we had to buy another 25 terabytes license to exceed that threshold. It would have been nice if they had offered them in increments, of 5, 10, 15, or 20 terabytes than having to get a whole chunk of 25 terabytes again for licensing purposes, which is a little costly. It would be nice if Panzura offered data in increments instead of 25 terabytes per license. They have done a pretty good job of development from the point of offering new products. Pricing seems to be high for certain things, such as the audit feature of Panzura Data Services. It would be nice to see who deleted that 100 gig of data out there. They should make the pricing plan more attractive for a company of our size. We have almost 700 employees over the southeast from Texas to Florida and up to Tennessee, so we are a pretty big region.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	53

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is actually quite reasonable in price compared to other native cloud storage options. For example, a customer using 100 TB of AWS storage would not benefit from deduplica...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

It would be nice to see technology supporting the Elastic Fabric Adapter on Amazon AWS, therefore getting RDMA technology for more low-latency connections.

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What are the products that Panzura provides?

Panzura offers four main products: CloudFS, data services, smart apps, and global services. They call this "all-in-one solution" and it's for end-to-end cloud data management. Why is it called that...

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What kind of industries does Panzura serve?

Hello, I think businesses from all industries that have their data on a cloud can benefit from Panzura. Especially if you have offices in various locations or your employees are working from home a...

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Why was Panzura acquired? Is the acquisition going to cause a change?

I think Panzura may change in a positive direction now that it's been bought by Profile Capital. That's a very big investment company for technology businesses and I think it's an opportunity for ...

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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Overview

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Panzura CloudFS is a cloud file system that enables efficient collaboration and data synchronization across multiple offices with features like file snapshots, data protection, and network resilience.

With Panzura CloudFS, organizations achieve seamless file synchronization and management across distributed networks. Offering a single namespace and capabilities like compression, deduplication, and metadata management, it simplifies administration and supports enterprise-level applications. Despite its strengths in speed, security, and customer support, there are areas for improvement such as performance for international access, alert systems, and pricing.

What are the key features of Panzura CloudFS?

Collaboration: Facilitates teamwork across offices with synchronized file access.
File Snapshots: Offers data protection and easy recovery with snapshot functionality.
Data Synchronization: Ensures consistency across all servers and locations.
Single Namespace: Provides a unified view of data across the network.
Compression and Deduplication: Reduces storage needs and enhances efficiency.

What benefits can reviews highlight?

Network Resilience: Maintains availability even during network disturbances.
Ease of Use: Simplifies data management tasks, reducing administrative overhead.
Reduced Data Center Footprint: Lowers the need for extensive on-prem storage.
Efficient Workflow: Supports streamlined processes with reliable data access.
Business Continuity: Ensures operations can proceed without disruption.

Industries such as architecture and biotech leverage Panzura CloudFS to manage complex file needs efficiently. It supports applications like AutoCAD and lab data management, offering real-time access and synchronization, important for businesses with distributed teams needing high resiliency and redundancy.

Panzura

Sample Customers

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard

Petrofac, Komatsu, HCA Healthcare, Vanguard, Disney, Pokemon, US Department of Justice, Gensler, Fluor, AFRY, Milwaukee Tool, Navy Federal Credit Union, TechTarget

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