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Panasas Survey: Specialty Knowledge Top Challenge for Managing High-Performance Storage

SAN JOSE, February 22, 2023 – High performance storage vendor Panasas today announced results of a global survey on the challenges enterprises face with storage infrastructure for high-performance applications. Lack of specialty knowledge coupled with high resource needs was the most frequently ranked challenge (over 50 percent of respondents). The findings result from an independent survey by Vanson […]

Panasas Announces PanView and Pan Move Software for HPC and AI Data Visibility and Mobility

SAN JOSE, February 1, 2023 – High-performance storage company Panasas today announced the general availability of PanView and PanMove, the company’s software products designed to improve data visibility and mobility at organizations deploying high performance computing (HPC), high performance data analytics (HPDA) and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads at scale. Panasas PanMove tools allow […]

At ISC: Panasas Spotlights New Products for High Performance HPC/AI and Enterprise Storage

At ISC 2022, we caught up with Panasas Chief Operating Officer Brian Peterson, who caught us up on the high performance storage company’s latest product and market developments. Peterson, who joined Panasas last November, said today’s key trend in the high-performance storage category is that, while it has traditionally been dominated by the high-end enterprise […]

Panasas Joins Thales Network for HPC Storage Security  

SAN JOSE – Dec. 1, 2021 – High-performance computing (HPC) data storage company Panasas announced it has joined the Thales Accelerate Partner Network and is working with Thales on the adoption of integrated storage security solutions. The Panasas PanFS parallel file system delivers uncompromised performance to meet the intensive requirements of contemporary HPC and AI/ML […]

Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage

SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship with the University of Minnesota’s Supercomputing Institute (MSI) to supply a new generation of parallel storage systems. As its researchers push further into the fields of bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, MSI plans […]

Panasas Joins Financial Services Industry’s STAC Benchmark Council

SUNNYVALE, CA –Panasas, a high performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions company, announced today that the company has joined the STAC Benchmark Council. The council is comprised of more than 400 financial institutions including the world’s largest global banks, brokerage houses, exchanges, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, asset managers and vendors. The STAC Benchmark Council […]

Stop the Lab Worship: Commercial HPC is Sexy, Too

There’s a trend in the data storage world to call out a growing “divide” between HPC and enterprise storage. We believe that’s an oversimplification. What’s worse, it reinforces popular myths coursing through the HPC landscape that revel in what we call “lab worship” at the expense of more mainstream enterprise customers.  

Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage

HPC storage is under strain to deliver fast, shared dataset access for backtesting quantitative trading strategies. One solution is Panasas’ ActiveStor Ultra – a scalable, parallel, data storage system for reduced backtest times and higher accuracy modeling.

Panasas Expands Senior Team with Addition of Tech Veterans Todd Ruff and Brian Reed  

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 1, 2021 – Panasas announced today that Todd Ruff, vice president of marketing, and Brian Reed, vice president of product and alliances, have joined the company’s senior management team. Richio Aikawa has also joined Panasas as director of vertical solutions, a key role as the company looks to expand its focus […]

What Do You Mean “What’s My Workload?” I Have Hundreds of Them!

In this sponsored post, Curtis Anderson, Senior Software Architect at Panasas, Inc., takes a look at what Panasas is calling Dynamic Data Acceleration (DDA) and how it dramatically improves HPC performance in a mixed-workload environment. DDA is a new, proprietary software feature of the Panasas PanFS® parallel file system that utilizes a carefully architected combination of technologies to get the most out of all the storage devices in the subsystem.