The updated console provides a view through Google Maps of Panzura controllers and connectivity between them, as well as other status items, such as the locally cached data at each location, cloud and network connectivity, and status and information about every filed stored in the Panzura Global File System. The CloudFS Console can provide alerts on any potential problems across the entire Panzura infrastructure, network and cloud, as well as the ability to view activity, status and alerts going back in time up to 14 days.

“Before, you could look at controllers in different panes of glass but couldn’t see it one interface,” said Barry Phillips, Panzura’s chief marketing officer. “When you truly turn the cloud into a global file system where every single office has the same file system, you really need something like this because they all work together. Google Maps seemed like a natural way of doing it. It matches the thought processes people have.”

Adding the capability to look back in time two weeks also made sense so that administrators could get a good sense of what might have been the cause of any performance issue.

The company could have gone and created it own geographic interface, but Weber said it made sense to use something people were already very familiar with. The hybrid cloud has meant some paradigm changes for organizations, he said, and Panzura wanted to reduce the education burden. “The feedback from customers was this was the most intuitive way.”

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