Panzura's global cloud file system CloudFS provides a single authoritative data set held in cloud object storage, with immediate global data consistency and local-feeling file performance across all locations. Data from all legacy storage instances is consolidated, de-duped, and compressed, significantly reducing the overall unstructured data footprint. Compatibility with a wide array of object stores provides the flexibility to consume public cloud storage, such as AWS S3 and Azure Blob, or private object storage, such as IBM iCOS and Cloudian.