Panasas

Infobox_Company
company_name = Panasas, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Accelerating Time to Results
foundation = 1999
location_city = flagicon|USA Fremont, CA
location_country = USA
key_people = Victor M. Perez, Chairman & CEO;
Garth Gibson , Founder & CTO; Bill Wagstaff , Senior VP, Technical Operations
num_employees = 120
products = Parallel Storage Clusters
homepage = [http://www.panasas.com/ www.panasas.com]
industry = Computer Storage
Sales = $12.5 m(est.) (2007)

Panasas, Inc., is a computer storage company based out of Fremont, California. It specializes in building parallel storage systems for Linux clusters.

History

Founded in 1999 by Dr. Garth Gibson and Dr. William Courtright, Panasas is an enterprise storage company headquartered in Fremont, California. Garth is also Chief Technology Officer for Panasas. The company initially started with funding of $10 Million from Goldman Sachs and Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV).It has in the recent past obtained additional funding from three leading technology investment firms, bringing its total funding to $36.5 Million to date. Carlyle Venture Partners, an affiliate of private equity giant The Carlyle Group, leads the round in partnership with global investment bank Goldman Sachs and Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV).

Products

Panasas is credited with developing an emerging standard for managing NFS file access in parallel. The standard is Parallel NFS (pNFS), an extension of the next release of NFS (Network File System), which is working its way through the IETF approval process. As an adjunct to the upcoming NFS 4.1, pNFS describes a way for the NFS protocol to process file requests to multiple servers or storage devices at once, instead of handling the requests serially.

Panasas storage products support a variety of storage protocols such as DirectFlow, CIFS and NFS. The key technologies behind Panasas product line is PanFS (Panasas ActiveScale File System) - a Distributed Parallel Asynchronous File System.

Company

Awards

* HPCWire 2005 “Editor’s Choice” Award
* HPCWire 2007 “Editor’s Choice” Award
* HPCWire 2007 “Reader's Choice” Award
* NSC Innovative Product Award

Locations

Besides its main office in Fremont, California, Panasas also has an additional development facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It also has sales offices located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, and Italy.

External links

* [http://www.panasas.com/ Panasas Home Page]