Partnership Between Versant and Panasas

Versant Corporation, in specialized data management software, and Panasas, Inc. announced a partnership to help accelerate database and storage performance for high-end application developers. The combined platform addresses the most demanding database and storage requirements found in high performance computing applications, especially for financial services, modeling and simulation, and complex telecommunication network management.

"We are developing sophisticated financial analysis and real-time trading applications, requiring sub second market access to literally millions of data elements," says Philip Beckley, CEO of Puertofino Software, LLC, a financial services company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "We selected the Panasas storage system and the Versant Object Database for maximum performance and reliability in our mission critical application, providing us with a significant competitive advantage. We are particularly impressed with the seamless compatibility and the almost infinite scalability of the solution."

Panasas provides parallel access to storage with very high concurrency that allows customers of both Panasas and Versant to build new applications for life sciences, financial services and satellite imaging that cannot be done with traditional SAN/NAS storage and relational databases. The Versant Object Database allows these complex applications to be built quickly, while Panasas provides the storage I/O and scalability to achieve a customer’s performance targets.

"Our customers are developing highly specialized data management applications where performance, scalability and reliability are of the utmost importance," said David Ingersoll, vice president, sales at Versant. "The Panasas storage solutions are a perfect fit for our high performance computing customers, extending our high performance, dual cache database architecture beyond traditional database platforms."

Versant Object Database
The Versant Object Database is the market leader in object databases. Using Versant Object Database for data storage brings powerful advantages to applications that use complex C++, Java and .NET object models, have high concurrency requirements and large data sets. The Versant Object Database is designed to handle the navigational access, seamless data distribution, and enterprise scale often required by these applications.

Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage
Panasas provides the most comprehensive family of parallel storage solutions available today. Every Panasas ActiveStor system is based on the leading PanFS Parallel File System and delivers exceptional performance, scalability and manageability. Leveraging its DirectFLOW parallel storage access technology, Panasas now supports more than 500,000 servers with cost-effective, data-intensive, and linearly scalable storage solutions. This innovative architecture enables multiple parallel data paths between computing nodes and Panasas ActiveStor storage, thereby eliminating the inherent performance and capacity bottlenecks of today’s file systems and file servers. Panasas also dramatically lowers the cost of managing data storage by supporting petabytes of data capacity growth within a single, easily managed namespace and framework.