Panasas enables enterprise customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. Read the top 10 reasons why you should choose Panasas.

1. High Performance
Scale-Out NAS
TOP 10 Reasons to Choose Panasas Storage
1. Unparalleled Application Performance
The combination of the Panasas object-based storage architecture and patented PanFS™ operating system delivers the
fastest performance in the industry. In real production environments, Panasas storage has achieved 30GB/sec bandwidth
performance.
2. Massive Scalability
Storage capacity can be quickly and easily added and configured in less than 30 minutes. As capacity is added, system
bandwidth scales linearly providing seamless scalability.
3. Lowest TCO
Panasas storage systems give organizations easy to use, appliance-like management of a virtually boundless storage
system. Competitive products require over twice the floor space to achieve comparable performance and scalability levels.
The patented PanFS™ storage operating system provides a single namespace and mount point that reduces administrative
complexity—saving time and money.
4. Superior Large-Scale Reliability
With Panasas Storage there is no single point of failure and high availability software provide automated failover for
maximizing uptime. In addition, Panasas’ unique Tiered Parity architecture delivers a comprehensive and scalable solution for
data reliability and integrity that is unmatched by any other storage vendor.
5. Proven in Production Environments
Panasas technical enterprise clients are successful leaders from Energy, Government, Finance, Manufacturing, Bioscience,
and Higher Education. Hundreds of customers on 6 continents and in 51 countries have implemented Panasas Storage as a
critical instrument in their IT infrastructure.
6. Storage Optimized for Real-World Applications
The Panasas architecture accelerates HPC and technical applications, such as Ansys/Fluent, CD-adapco, Paradigm and
Landmark. This gives customers higher performing applications and the power to make business-critical decisions faster.
7. Easiest Path to Parallel NFS (pNFS)
pNFS (parallel NFS) is the emerging standard for HPC and technical computing and the next major extension to the NFS
standard. Panasas was the first company to evangelize the need for a standard for parallel file systems. The parallel NFS
standard is derived from the Panasas DirectFLOW architecture. Existing and future customers deploying Panasas DirectFLOW
protocol will have the simplest upgrade path to pNFS when it becomes production-ready.
8. Flexible Solutions that Configure to Any Environment
The architecture of the PAS family of scale-out NAS systems is comprised of modular building blocks that can be configured
to provide one single pool of storage with distributed and balanced I/O paths that streamline and accelerate workflows.
9. Multi-protocol Support
Panasas Storage enable a unified storage infrastructure by providing support for NFS and CIFS access to a single, shared
storage pool. This approach simplifies storage management, reduces data duplication, and increases end-user productivity.
10. World Class, Personalized Service and Support
With our personalized extranet, My.Panasas.com, flexible support packages, and our dedicated staff of storage and cluster
experts, the Support Services Team will exceed your expectations for service and support.
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high-performance scale-out NAS storage solutions, enables enterprise customers to rapidly solve
complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. All Panasas solutions leverage
the patented PanFS™ storage operating system to deliver exceptional performance, scalability and manageability. Panasas
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systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the energy, government, finance, manufacturing, bioscience and
higher education industries.
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