The NEW v3.5 release of the industry leading object-based parallel storage solution for high-performance computing brings more enterprise features and greater predictive self-management capabilities to the Panasas ActiveStor Storage Clusters:

• Single Client Peformance - 200% improvement compared to previous versions
• 4GB cache StorageBlades on the ActiveStor 8 Series - larger memory cache for optimized application workloads
• Disk Migration Utility - transparent shelf to shelf data migration to new hardware
• Asynchronous Mirroring - Integrated Replication for disaster recovery, back up consolidation and content distribution
• LDAP & Samba Update - improved Windows interoperability
• Access Control List - export PanFS ACL for more flexible security policies
• Linux Power 6 Client Support - support for IBM's latest high-performance compute platform

The foundation for the Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage solutions is the Panasas ActiveScale operating environment that includes the PanFS parallel file system. The ActiveScale file system turns files into smart data objects and then dynamically distributes data activity across Panasas StorageBlade modules. Panasas' Individual Hardware Performance Modules are designed and optimized for the ActiveScale distributed clustered file system parallel data paths write and read operations, in order to eliminate single lane data traffic bottle necks.

The result is that the Panasas ActiveScale storage solutions deliver an order of magnitude improvement in throughput and random I/O performance over leading alternatives. The ActiveScale operating environment also dramatically lowers the cost of managing data storage by supporting Terabytes (TB) to Petabytes (PB) of data capacity growth all within a single, easily managed namespace.

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Panasas offers comprehensive storage solutions for all high-performance environments with the highest bandwidth and I/O performance; scalable capacity; and simple unified management in an integrated software and hardware solution. The ActiveScale Operating Environment is extremely robust and has been proven in hundreds of high performance cluster installations around the globe.