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    Panasas High-Performance Storage File System Goes Mainstream

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    August 21, 2008
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      Parallel file system storage specialist Panasas, founded by Dr. Garth Gibson of Carnegie Mellon University, the man who co-created RAID back in the ’90s, has tailored its ActiveStor product line for enterprise use.
      ActiveStor, with its extremely fast file system and processing power, is usually found in scientific data centers like that at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new enterprise version was announced Aug. 21.
      The Parallel Network File System, or pNFS, is a complex proprietary technology that solves storage I/O bottlenecks-which are the bane of IT managers’ existence-and accelerate customer deployments of parallel storage solutions. It enables direct parallel data transfer-as opposed to standard, narrower, one-lane file systems-between clients and storage devices.
      pNFS is a critical component of NFS version 4.1, the first major performance upgrade to the widely deployed NFS in more than a decade. It is currently undergoing standards scrutiny. Typically, pNFS is used in system stacks with Linux, Apache (for Web servers) and other open-source software.
      ActiveStor’s new second-tier parallel storage package increases the aggregate bandwidth that can be supported on each Panasas storage shelf to about double that of the prior generation. Panasas claims that such a system thus can deploy up to 50 percent less storage, use up to 50 percent less power, require up to 50 percent less cooling and utilize up to 50 percent less floor space, due to the efficiencies of the enterprise ActiveStor.
      The ActiveStor product line includes the ActiveStor 6000 (AS6000) and ActiveStor 4000 (AS4000) parallel storage clusters and the new ActiveStor 200 (AS200), the industry’s first parallel second-tier storage solution. All feature the new third-generation Panasas ActiveScale 3.2 operating environment.
      All three storage clusters offer huge scalability because storage shelves can be combined into a single, global shared file system supporting well over 10PB of raw capacity.
      “Parallel storage and scale-out computing provide the ultra-high performance that some commercial computing applications now require,” said Mike Karp, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates.
      “The new Panasas offerings, a leader in delivering high-performance parallel storage systems that help solve the most complex engineering and scientific computing challenges, deliver the same level of performance to the enterprise business segment and should be of interest to anyone needing the highest level of storage performance.”
      Panasas will host a Webinar on the new ActiveStor product line Sept. 17 at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Registration is available here.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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