Next-Gen Hybrid Scale-Out NAS

Panasas ActiveStor® is the first "no compromise" hybrid scale-out NAS appliance. ActiveStor is powered by the proven PanFS® storage operating system for seamless linear scale-out growth, exceptional performance, easy management, and revolutionary reliability.

ActiveStor is a next-generation storage appliance that delivers the high performance benefits of flash technology with the cost effectiveness of enterprise disk drives. High parallel performance scales linearly with capacity — without the manageability and reliability compromises that often occur at scale. ActiveStor is specifically designed to accelerate innovation and discovery in technical research and enterprise environments including the energy, finance, government, life sciences, manufacturing, media, and university research sectors. Exceptionally high aggregate performance results in faster time-to-results and more efficient workflows resulting in greater productivity and profitability.

Top Benefits of ActiveStor Scale-Out NAS:

• High Parallel Performance
• Flash-accelerated hybrid architecture
• Efficient parallel access
• Direct data access without filer head bottlenecks
• Linear scaling of performance as capacity grows

• Enterprise-Grade Reliability
• PanFS RAID 6+ triple parity protection
• Data reliability and availability actually increase with scale

• Easy Management
• Under ten minutes for system setup
• Single global namespace
• Little to no additional management effort at scale

Panasas was founded in 1999, following research by Carnegie Melon University into the future file-system requirements of four flagship US Government research facilities.

Since then, Panasas has worked with many academic and government organizations, software vendors and commercial companies, to help them understand how to maximize their applications in order to take advantage of our high-performance storage file-system.

Panasas is also working with Teratec to provide engineering knowledge to its members - with the goal of helping them to maximize their in-house, or commercial, applications.

Panasas also provides systems for development/testing and ultimately contributes to the Teratec members’ environments so that they can execute the most-demanding applications, and provide better simulations results, faster than ever before.