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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Data Storage |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Key people | Faye Pairman, CEO; Garth Gibson, Founder & CTO; Barbara Murphy, CMO; Stephanie Vinella, CFO; Celeste Baranski, Sr. VP Engineering; Bill Ribera, VP Worldwide Sales |
| Products | High Performance Scale-out NAS |
| Employees | 120 |
| Website | www.panasas.com |
Panasas, Inc., is a private, multinational computer storage company based in Sunnyvale, California. It specializes in high-performance scale-out network-attached storage optimized for Linux clusters.
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[edit] History
Founded in 1999 by Dr. Garth Gibson and Dr. William Courtright, Panasas is an enterprise storage company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company initially started with funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and has obtained additional funding from leading technology investment firms including the Carlyle Group, Centennial Ventures, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and Novak-Biddle Venture Partners.[1] The company uses McClenahan Bruer Communications for its public relations in the United States and Napier Partnership Limited in Europe.
[edit] Technology
Panasas is credited with developing an emerging standard for managing Network File System (NFS) file access in parallel.[2] The standard is Parallel NFS (pNFS), an extension of NFS present in NFS 4.1, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force as RFC 5661 in January, 2010. pNFS describes a way for the NFS protocol to process file requests to multiple servers or storage devices at once, instead of handling the requests serially.[3]
[edit] Integration
Panasas supports a broad range of application profiles for NFS, Parallel NFS and CIFS data access protocols integrating into existing IT infrastructures. Panasas director blades serve metadata, acting as a cluster of NAS filers capable of serving data for NFS and CIFS clients.[citation needed]
[edit] Products
Panasas storage solutions claim to be the world's highest performance storage system.[4] Panasas systems are primarily designed for storage environments in the energy, government, finance, manufacturing, bioscience and higher education industries.[5]
[edit] Activestor
- Activestor 8 - Designed for highly sequential I/O workloads and large files, for scientific and technical applications.[6]
- Activestor 9 - Designed for random I/O workloads and large and small files. PAS 9 utilizes solid state disks (SSD) that accelerates metadata operations.[7]
- Activestor 11 & 12 - Fourth generation systems that up to double performance over PAS 8, growing from 600MB/s to up to 1.5GB/s per chassis.[8]
[edit] PanFS
PanFS creates a single pool of storage under a global namespace that provides the ability to support multiple applications and workflows in a single storage system with optimal performance for complex technical applications. PanFS eliminates the need for multiple islands of storage.[9]
PanFS supports DirectFlow (pNFS), NFS and CIFS data access protocols simultaneously.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ "Panasas Corporate Overview". Panasas. 2011-06-06. http://www.panasas.com/docs/Panasas-overview.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ Jander, Mary (2007-05-26). "Panasas Leads Charge to Parallel NFS". Network Computing. http://www.networkcomputing.com/other/panasas-leads-charge-to-parallel-nfs.php?type=article. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "RFC 5661". IEFT.org. http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5661/. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "Panasas:"We have the World's Highest-Performance File Storage System"". Storage Newsletter. 2009-10-21. http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/systems/panasas-activestor-series-9. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "Panasas Solutions". Panasas. http://www.panasas.com/solutions/. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "Activestor 8 datasheet". Panasas. http://www.panasas.com/docs/PAS8-DataSheet-PW-10-41501-v1-lores.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "Activestor 9 datasheet". Panasas. http://www.panasas.com/docs/PAS9-DataSheet-PW-10-41601-v1-lores.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "Activestor 11 & 12 datasheet". Panasas. http://www.panasas.com/docs/Panasas_ActiveStor_DS_LR_060111.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "New Multi-Petabyte, Scale-Out NAS". Storage Newsletter. 2010-04-20. http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/systems/panasas-pas-hc. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "PanFS". Panasas. http://www.panasas.com/products/panfs.php. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
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