SanDisk Puts Money into Panzura

Panzura, the flash-based NAS start-up whose widgetry is used to store data off-premises in the cloud, has gotten a $25 million D round and the investors this time include SanDisk, the flash memory storage house, which kicked in enough to rate a board seat.
Panzura’s other investors include Meritech Capital, Matrix Partners, Khosla Ventures, Opus Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures.
Panzura makes files look like they’re stored locally together with stuff that is.
Its cloud partners include Amazon, Google, Dell, HP, IBM and Joyent.

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