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Panasas

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Panasas is a scale-out NAS (network-attached storage) vendor that produces hardware and software for demanding technical and enterprise environments.

Panasas_Logo Panasas’ main offering is its ActiveStor scale-out NAS appliance product line and associated software.

Features integrated in ActiveStor include:

A hybrid flash storage array containing a mix of flash solid state drives and hard disk drives.
Panasas’ PanFS parallel file system, which creates a shared storage pool for support of multiple, high-demand workflows and applications.
DirectFlow and NFS v3 protocols for Linux and Unix clients and SMB for Windows clients.
Clustered storage devices to provide scale-out storage.

Garth Gibson and William Courtright founded Panasas in 1999. Corporate headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California.

This was last updated in October 2016

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Panasas ActiveStor chases Lustre users with portable PanFS With ActiveStor Ultra, Panasas ports its PanFS parallel file systems to Linux. The vendor's plans include OEM server deals to sell PanFS on commodity gear for HPC customers.

Panasas refreshes with ActiveStor Ultra in push to the enterprise Scale-out NAS maker Panasas wants to make its ActiveStor storage more attractive to enterprises by touting its ease of use and putting storage nodes on commodity hardware

Panasas storage roadmap includes route to software-defined Panasas network-attached storage targets enterprises with large file workloads distributed across many users. ActiveStor hybrid arrays run the PanFS parallel file system.

Panasas storage, director blades split into separate devices Panasas hybrid storage offers 57 PB of raw capacity with 200 shelves. ActiveStor Director 100 sits atop a rack of Panasas arrays. Customers can scale types and capacities of media.

Panasas, Promark pursue scale-out NAS storage market In the scale-out NAS market, Panasas is partnering with Ingram Micro's Promark value-added distributor subsidiary to boost government and commercial channel sales.

Margaret Rouse asks:

Which is better at handling unstructured data, scale-out NAS or object storage?

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Margaret Rouse - 22 Oct 2016 1:46 AM

Which is better at handling unstructured data, scale-out NAS or object storage?

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