Panasas Launches New Parallel Storage Systems

FREMONT, Calif. -- Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage for the worlds most performance-intensive applications, today announced a new, broader product line that extends the company’s performance and scalability leadership to additional markets and price-performance levels. The new ActiveStor™ Series 7, 8 and 9 portfolio of parallel storage products is designed to bring the highest level of speed and flexibility to data-driven enterprises with high-performance computing requirements. Panasas also introduced new data management features including automatic virtual storage tiering, asynchronous replication, and automated data migration.

The new product line expands the company’s market reach across a broader scope of data-intensive applications for industries including aerospace, energy, finance, government, life sciences, consumer products, and manufacturing. The exceptional throughput of the Panasas parallel storage architecture eliminates bottlenecks in application performance for faster time to results, enabling customers to accelerate innovation by running their simulations and other data-intensive workloads significantly faster.

“Panasas continues to build the value of its products and increase its dominance in an area of the market that relies heavily on data-intensive applications,” said Richard Walsh, research director, technical computing group at industry analyst firm IDC. “Their new product portfolio fits a range of storage requirement profiles to meet the needs of a wider range of data-intensive applications.”

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