Panasas has announced general availability of its all-NVMe ActiveStor Flash and high-capacity ActiveStor Ultra XL data storage appliances. The new systems, together with the company’s flagship hybrid ActiveStor Ultra appliance, mark Panasas’ emergence as a multi-platform data storage company. The Panasas ActiveStor systems have been tailored to a broad range of use cases, including advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) training, high performance data analytics (HPDA), modelling and simulation, and massive-scale data workloads.

The convergence of HPC with HPDA and AI/ML projects at research institutes, commercial organisations, and large enterprises has led to new requirements for the underlying storage stack serving those data-intensive environments. Panasas’ updated product portfolio delivers the capabilities necessary to support customers’ current and emerging high-bandwidth applications that are fuelling their business growth.

All Panasas ActiveStor systems are powered by the PanFS data engine, the company’s parallel file system built on 23 years of hardening through commercial deployment and engineered to take the complexity out of high-performance data environments. The newest release, PanFS 9.2, is more portable to address the rapidly growing enterprise HPC and AI sector.

“We started out as an HPC company with the world’s leading parallel file system – the first ever for Linux – founded on the four pillars of reliability, scalability, performance, and manageability,” said Panasas Chief Operating Officer, Brian Peterson. “We’re proud of our legacy and the trust we’ve earned from our customers, and we’re relentlessly committed to refining our technology to provide the storage foundation data-driven organisations need today. With our new ActiveStor systems and the latest version of the PanFS data engine, we are delivering Panasas’ world-class solutions to an even broader audience.”

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