Panasas ActiveStor16 Hybrid Scale-Out NAS With RAID-6+

Panasas, Inc. announced that its ActiveStor16 hybrid scale-out NAS appliance is shipping.

Powered by the storage OS PanFS 6.0, ActiveStor16 delivers performance that increases with scale alongside enterprise-grade reliability that improves at scale – a promise that eliminates fundamental compromises between performance, capacity and reliability that storage users have previously come to accept.

The ActiveStor16 appliance increases storage density by 50% while PanFS 6.0 delivers RAID-6+ triple parity data protection for a 150x increase in reliability over dual parity products, with no compromise to performance or manageability.

The University of Minnesota selected ActiveStor16 to accelerate their medical and scientific research projects. Deployed as a private cloud, university researchers require a hybrid solution that delivers the fastest time-to-results across a variety of demanding workloads without compromise to the reliability or manageability of the system.

“With a diverse research user base requiring reliability and performance over a wide range of input/output workloads, we felt that the next generation of Panasas storage solutions provided a proven and uncompromising choice,” said Jeff McDonald, assistant director for HPC operations, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute at the University of Minnesota.

“We’re excited to see the rapid adoption of ActiveStor 16 validating our belief that we have set a new standard for performance and reliability at scale,” said Geoffrey Noer, VP of product management, Panasas. “Technical computing deployments in the enterprise continue to grow, driving massive increases in the sizes of unstructured data sets. Our unique offering of proven reliability at scale combined with the high performance and manageability for which Panasas is known will continue to set Panasas apart in the storage marketplace.“