1999 headquarters sunnyvale california usa key people faye pairman ceo garth gibson founder and chief scientist jim donovan cmo tom shea chief operating officer products hybrid scale out nas for technical computing environments number of employees 145 website www.panasas.com panasas inc. is a privately held data storage company that specializes in high performance scale out network attached storage for technical computing environments . contents 1 history 2 technology 2.1 activestor 2.2 panfs 3 references 4 external links history edit founded in 1999 by garth gibson and william courtright panasas is a data storage company headquartered in sunnyvale california . the company initially started with venture capital funding from mohr davidow ventures mdv and additional investors include the carlyle group centennial ventures evercore partners goldman sachs intel capital and novak biddle venture partners . its first products were shipped in 2004 . after an estimated 20 customers victor m. perez became chief executive in august 2004 . 1 faye pairman previously of applied micro circuits corporation s 3ware division became chief executive in 2011 . 2 technology edit panasas developed an extension for managing parallel file access in the network file system nfs . 3 this work was later integrated in parallel nfs pnfs part of the nfs version 4.1 specification published by the internet engineering task force as rfc 5661 in january 2010 . 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 . 4 panasas products utilize the proprietary directflow 5 protocol which is based on the pnfs standard and ideally suited for the high performance linux clusters commonly found in technical computing environments . panasas supports nfs parallel nfs and server message block also known as cifs data access protocols to integrate into existing local area network infrastructures . panasas blade servers manage metadata serving data for nfs and cifs clients using 10 gigabit ethernet . 6 panasas storage systems are optimized for data storage and management for high performance applications in the biosciences energy media and entertainment manufacturing government and research sectors . 7 activestor edit the activestor product line is a scale out nas appliance that integrates hybrid storage hardware file system panfs and network protocols directflow nfs v3 for linux and unix clients and smb for microsoft windows clients . it uses a computer cluster to provide scalability using a technique known as scale out . 8 activestor systems combine high capacity hard drives and solid state drives for improved mixed workload performance with rapid access to small and large files alike . activestor 18 announced in 2015 increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes pb and 200 gigabytes per second gb s by adopting 8 terabyte tb drive technology . 9 activestor 18 also offers increased cpu power and twice the storage cache capacity of previous versions to further accelerate mixed workload performance . 10 panfs edit the panfs clustered file system creates a single pool of storage under a global filename space to support multiple applications and workflows in a single storage system with high performance for technical applications . 11 panfs supports directflow pnfs nfs and cifs data access protocols simultaneously . 12 references edit panasas plots new path . byte and switch . august 10 2004 . retrieved july 19 2013 . faye pairman president and ceo panasas inc. . hpcwire . 2011 . retrieved july 19 2013 . mary jander may 26 2007 . panasas leads charge to parallel nfs . network computing . retrieved july 19 2013 . s. shepler m. eisler and d. noveck editors january 2010 . network file system nfs version 4 minor version 1 protocol . ietf . rfc 5661 . https tools.ietf.org html rfc5661 . retrieved june 4 2014 . panasas accelerates pnfs adoption . news release . panasas . may 23 2007 . retrieved july 19 2013 . panasas activestor 14 parallel storage . product web page . panasa . retrieved july 19 2013 . scale out nas storage vendor panasas . www.panasas.com . retrieved 2015 09 17 . panasas corporate overview pdf . panasas . september 14 2012 . retrieved july 19 2013 . panasas announces activestor 18 massively scalable nas . retrieved 2015 09 17 . panasas launches activestor 18 storagereview.com storage reviews . www.storagereview.com . retrieved 2015 09 17 . new multi petabyte scale out nas . storage newsletter . 2010 04 20 . retrieved 2011 07 08 . panfs . panasas . retrieved 2011 07 08 . external links edit panasas home page parallel nfs v t e the carlyle group william e. conway jr. daniel a. d aniello david rubenstein aerospace defense arinc combined systems dhs technologies sequa wesco aircraft transportation allison transmission diversified machine inc. hertz metaldyne trenstar united components united road towing consumer retail alliance boots american 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