Originally announced via PRNewswire on September 17, 2019. Source: finance.yahoo.com
Panzura Vizion.ai Earns VMware Partner Ready Validation for VMware Cloud on AWS
Panzura, a provider of multi-cloud data services, announced in September 2019 that its Vizion.ai platform had attained the VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS validation. This designation signals to enterprise customers that Vizion.ai has been tested for interoperability with VMware Cloud on AWS, and that Panzura is qualified to fully manage customer support requests for Vizion.ai deployments within that environment.
What Is Vizion.ai?
Vizion.ai is a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based analytics platform built by Panzura to help enterprises collect, visualize, and analyze machine-generated data across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The platform is built on a serverless Elasticsearch architecture, designed to simplify the deployment and management of large-scale log and telemetry analytics workloads without requiring customers to manage the underlying search infrastructure directly.
According to Panzura, Vizion.ai is capable of enabling data visualization in under five minutes of deployment, and the company claims storage costs are up to 70 percent lower than competing solutions. These figures are taken directly from Panzura’s own press release and have not been independently verified.
What the VMware Partner Ready Validation Means
The VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS program allows technology partners to validate their application and infrastructure components against VMware Cloud on AWS. Achieving this status requires partners to test and confirm:
- Interoperability between their solution and VMware Cloud on AWS
- Support for specified versions and configurations on the platform
- The ability to manage end-to-end customer support requests for their product running on VMware Cloud on AWS
Kristen Edwards, Director of Technology Alliance Partner Program at VMware, commented on the validation: “This signifies to customers that Panzura Vizion.ai can be deployed with the knowledge and reassurance that the partner fully supports the specified versions and configurations on VMware Cloud on AWS.”
Partners that achieve this status are listed in the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX), VMware’s online marketplace where partners and developers can publish technical documentation, marketing content, and downloadable software for customers evaluating VMware-compatible solutions.
Key Capabilities for vSAN Customers
For organizations already running VMware Cloud on AWS — particularly those using vSAN storage — integrating Vizion.ai introduces the following capabilities:
- Global indexing and search: Search and index data stored across multiple cloud environments from a single interface
- Integrated indexing: Automated ingestion and indexing of machine-generated data streams
- Improved orchestration: Kubernetes-based workload management reduces operational overhead for analytics pipelines
- Advanced machine learning analytics: Built-in ML capabilities help identify patterns and anomalies in large datasets at scale
- Smarter data management: Unified visibility and control across hybrid and multi-cloud storage tiers
Jason C. McKinney, Senior Vice President of Alliances and Channels at Panzura, noted: “Our partner ready status reinforces our commitment to serve our joint customers in the VMware and AWS Marketplace.”
About VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered hybrid cloud service delivered, sold, and supported by both VMware and AWS. Built on VMware Cloud Foundation and running on dedicated, elastic bare-metal AWS infrastructure, the service allows organizations to run their existing VMware workloads in the AWS Cloud without re-architecting applications.
Key benefits of VMware Cloud on AWS include:
- Consistent operational experience between on-premises VMware environments and AWS
- Optimized, low-latency access to a broad range of native AWS services
- Use of familiar VMware tools (vCenter, NSX, vSAN) in the cloud
- Elastic capacity scaling on AWS bare-metal infrastructure
- Support from both VMware and AWS partner ecosystems
The Vizion.ai validation extends this ecosystem by giving VMware Cloud on AWS customers an analytics option that is explicitly tested and supported within the platform, reducing deployment risk for enterprise teams managing large volumes of machine-generated observability data.
Summary
Panzura’s Vizion.ai achieving VMware Partner Ready status for VMware Cloud on AWS is a practical milestone for DevOps and infrastructure teams evaluating analytics solutions for hybrid cloud environments. The validation provides a degree of assurance around interoperability and vendor support — two critical factors when deploying analytics infrastructure alongside production workloads in a VMware Cloud on AWS environment. Organizations already invested in VMware and AWS can now evaluate Vizion.ai through the VMware Solution Exchange with confidence that the integration has been formally tested.