Panasas to Support IBM Power Systems

panasasPanasas announced today that it has partnered with IBM in order to develop integrated support and optimized configurations for the IBM Power series of systems running Linux. The Power+Panasas solution will be targeted towards users in aerospace, energy, finance, government, life sciences, consumer products and manufacturing.

High-performance and data-intensive application environments are growing segments of the market in which IBM Power servers offer exceptional computational performance, especially in clustered configurations,” said Katalin Bartfai-Walcott, IBM sales executive and senior technical staff member. “Panasas’ leading-edge storage performance and scalability allow us to help customers scale as their businesses grow. Panasas ActiveStor storage and IBM Power Linux servers are the perfect match to deliver the robustness, scalability, and performance to meet high-performance storage and parallel I/O needs, and dramatically improve total cost of ownership. We see the synergy between our two product lines as strategic to our business and look forward to developing best-of-breed solutions for our common customers.”

For more info, read the full release here.