Panasas announced ActiveStor Ultra,
the next generation of its high-performance computing (HPC) storage solution,
featuring PanFS 8, the
industry's only plug-and-play, portable, parallel filesystem. ActiveStor Ultra
expands Panasas' leadership position in the HPC market by delivering up to 75
GB/s per rack on industry-standard commodity hardware as well as
enterprise-grade reliability and manageability, all at the most competitive
price point.
ActiveStor Ultra is delivered as a fully integrated
plug-and-play appliance running PanFS 8 on industry-standard hardware. PanFS 8
is the completely re-engineered Panasas parallel filesystem, designed to
deliver the highest performance and reliability on properly configured and
qualified storage hardware platforms. PanFS 8 now runs on Linux and features intelligent
data placement across three tiers of media - metadata on non-volatile memory
express (NVMe), small files on SSDs and large files on HDDs - resulting in
optimized performance for all data types.
"Panasas has achieved a re-set with its ActiveStor Ultra
platform, which is designed to deliver the highest levels of HPC performance
while offering the plug-and-play simplicity, reliability and low
total-cost-of-ownership that customers have come to expect," said Steve Conway,
senior research vice president at Hyperion Research. "Panasas reports that the
new PanFS 8 portable parallel filesystem will be available at highly
competitive price points. It could be a potential game-changer for the company
and have a strong impact on the HPC storage industry in general."
Designed for extreme performance, linear scalability and
high reliability, ActiveStor Ultra is ideally suited to support the complex and
varied data sets associated with traditional HPC workloads and emerging
applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), precision medicine,
autonomous driving and virtual reality (VR). ActiveStor Ultra's modular
architecture and building-block design enables enterprises to start small and
scale linearly. With dock-to-data in one hour, ActiveStor Ultra delivers the
industry's fastest time to first data access and virtually eliminates manual
intervention to deliver the lowest total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).
"Our customers have long valued the hassle-free management
of Panasas storage, and now, with the release of PanFS 8 on ActiveStor Ultra,
we are achieving the highest levels of performance at an exceptional price
point," said Faye Pairman, chief executive officer at Panasas. "No other HPC
storage solution delivers this combination of speed and simplicity in a single
product."
Availability
ActiveStor Ultra will be available in early 2H-2019.