Panasas Moves to Hybrid Storage with ActiveStor 14

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This week Panasas introduced ActiveStor 14, an SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS appliance optimized for extreme bandwidth and small file performance for Big Data workloads. According to the company, the new platform will satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the most demanding high-performance storage applications while opening new opportunities for Panasas parallel storage technology in industries with I/O intensive workloads such as finance, life sciences, energy, and manufacturing.

As big data workloads become pervasive within the enterprise, a parallel architecture is a necessary weapon to address critical analysis in a timely manner in order to drive competitive advantage,” said Faye Pairman, president and CEO at Panasas. “ActiveStor 14 broadens the appeal of our fully integrated parallel file system appliances by supporting a diverse set of workloads and applications—all from a single scale-out NAS solution.”

Panasas plans to demonstrate the new technology next week at the HPC on Wall Street conference, with first shipments scheduled for November. Read the Full Story.