11 Facts About Panasas

Panasas is a data storage company that creates network-attached storage for technical computing environments.

Panasas is a computer data storage product company and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Panasas received seed funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures and others.

The first Panasas products were shipped in 2004, the same year that Victor M Perez became CEO.

Panasas developed an extension for managing parallel file access in the Network File System, which was later integrated in Parallel NFS, part of the NFS version 4.

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Panasas systems provide data storage and management for high-performance applications in the biosciences, energy, media and entertainment, manufacturing, government and research sectors.

In November 2017, Panasas released the ActiveStor Director 100 and the ActiveStor Hybrid 100, which disaggregated the Director Blade, the controller node of Panasas storage system, from the storage nodes.

In November 2018, Panasas introduced ActiveStor Ultra, which featured a completely re-engineered portable file system running on industry standard hardware.

Panasas created the PanFS clustered file system as single pool of storage under a global filename space to support multiple applications and workflows in a single storage system.

In November 2018, Panasas introduced PanFS 8, an intelligent, POSIX compliant parallel file system that incorporates the latest software innovations and runs on Linux to enable easy portability to new industry standard hardware.

In May 2022, Panasas added all-flash and massive-capacity data solutions to ActiveStor portfolio.