Storage Technologies: Panasas — ActiveStor Parallel Storage
Date
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1/1/2010
Panasas, Inc., provides a comprehensive family of solutions for high-performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads that enable customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and accelerate new product introduction.All Panasas storage products leverage the patented PanFS™ storage operating system to deliver industry leading performance, data protection, scalability and manageability. Panasas systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing and university markets. Some of Panasas key features include:
- High performance: 1.5GB/s per ActiveStor™ 12 chassis
- Easy scalability of capacity and performance to 6PB and 150GB/s from a single file system
- Single point of management
- Object RAID with RAID levels assigned on a per-file basis
- Fully integrated solution
Options include:
- High-Performance XC storage blades
- ActiveImage Snapshots
- ActiveGuard High Availability software
The advanced ActivStor solution turns files into smart data objects and dynamically distributes the data transfer operations to enable parallel data paths between nodes, improving performance and minimizing capacity bottlenecks. The ActiveStor suite of products is designed to manage Petabytes (PB) of data capacity and growth — all within a single, easily managed namespace.
