We’ve architected the Panasas® ActiveStor® solution for simplicity and limitless performance. We’ve innovated our solution, based on 20 years of file system experience, to take advantage of the latest advances, including porting to Linux, offering a wider range of networking speed options, and leveraging the latest industry-standard hardware technologies. Explore Products
The fastest parallel file system at any price point delivers surprising simplicity along with low cost to own and operate. Explore ActiveStor Ultra
High-performance hybrid scale-out NAS with integrated networking, flexible flash, and disk options which allow for smaller deployments that linearly scale as you grow. Explore ActiveStor Prime
The modular Panasas® architecture offers unlimited performance scalability and capacity in 4 GB/second building blocks. Grow quickly, within budget, using our set- it-and-forget-it solution powered by the Panasas PanFS® parallel file system. To scale out, simply add new director and storage nodes. Explore Architecture
Panasas® PanFS® is the fastest, most efficient distributed parallel file system at any price point. Built on the Linux OS, PanFS runs on commodity hardware. Explore PanFS
ActiveStor Director intelligently processes metadata to orchestrate file system activity, applies legacy protocol gateways, and “realm” (storage cluster) management. Explore ActiveStor Director
ActiveStor Storage nodes are dedicated to data and metadata storage for clients and Director Nodes. Storage node actions are under precise coordination by Director Nodes. Explore ActiveStor Storage
Easy to install software that implements the DirectFlow protocol, enabling superior performance and full POSIX behavior. Explore Client Software
ActiveStor delivers scale-out storage that transfers data between Storage Nodes and clients directly and in parallel. Explore Exceptional Performance
ActiveStor’s multiple layers of advanced protection – like Erasure-Coded Data Protection, snapshots, and replication – provide confidence that grows with scale. Explore Data Protection
PanFS® on ActiveStor® Ultra is designed to support linear growth, providing scalable performance, streamlined manageability, and unparalleled reliability. Explore Linear Scalability
Panasas gives administrators complete realm management capabilities through an intuitive web-based GUI. Explore Centralized Management
Panasas® PanFS® on ActiveStor® Ultra is optimized for demanding storage environments. No matter what industry you’re in, the solution delivers leading price/performance in an appliance that maximizes simplicity, boosts reliability, and delivers the lowest total cost of ownership. Explore Industries
Create highly accurate simulations and support complex design processes that meet the dynamic demands of your customers. The Panasas ActiveStor solution helps you accelerate product development while reducing time to market. Explore Computer Aided Engineering
Support automated design and simulate conditions on today’s most advanced electronic products. The Panasas ActiveStor solution helps you run high-performance mixed workloads that support even the most complex electronics design and automation (EDA) processes. Explore Electronic Design Automation
Processing human genome data requires a combination of cloud and on-premises storage. Reliable Panasas real-time scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is the preferred solution of research facilities worldwide. Explore Genomic Sequencing
The ActiveStor solution is specifically architected to handle the mixed data files and formats common to bioinformatics and interacts seamlessly with cloud data formats. Explore Bioinformatics
Computing calculations for computational chemistry often take days, weeks, or even months. The ActiveStor solution is reliable enough to handle the long-term computing needs of researchers. Explore Computational Chemistry
Seismic analysis involves acquiring, generating, and recording massive data volumes. The ActiveStor solution processes huge data volumes so users can suppress noise, enhance signals, and better understand seismic events. Explore Seismic Processing
Energy companies need to visualize reservoirs to analyze extraction or drilling alternatives. The ActiveStor solution supports process modeling and simulation for better forecasting. Explore Reservoir Simulation
Analysis of seismic data generates models and predictions about subsurface properties and structures. Using the ActiveStor solution, analysts can make better use of data, improving their competitive advantage. Explore Interpretation and Analysis
Leading academic research institutions choose the ActiveStor solution to create highly accurate climate and weather models using complex simulation and analysis of huge data volumes. Explore Climate Modeling
By streamlining access to computer modeling techniques and accelerating complex analysis, the ActiveStor solution helps academic researchers develop new materials faster. Explore Materials Science
With the ActiveStor solution, researchers can unlock the secrets of our physical world by using large-scale computer simulation technologies to process huge volumes of data. Explore High-Energy Physics
The ActiveStor solution helps researchers access, manage, simulate, model, and analyze the massive data sets needed to solve complex science and engineering problems. Explore Computational Sciences
Agencies that monitor, model, and analyze climate and weather changes rely on high performance storage solution to run simulations faster, even with growing data volumes. Explore Climate Modeling
Leading defense organizations choose the ActiveStor solution to support highly accurate mission simulations and accelerate complex analysis for enhanced national security. Explore Defense
To understand adversaries and risks, intelligence organizations count on the ActiveStor solution to support the collection, analysis, and storage of vast amounts of disparate information. Explore Intelligence
Organizations select the ActiveStor solution to support fast, precise economic simulation, analysis, and modeling of the effects of interest rate changes, forecasts, and agricultural factors. Explore Financial Modeling
Unleash VFX creativity while optimizing render farm performance. Panasas lets you render visual effects faster, predictably, and reliably, every time. Explore Rendering
Stay ahead of increasingly complex content processing workflows, and create, ingest, transcode any format across your digital media lifecycle with storage scale, speed, and simplicity. Explore Transcoding
Most complex AI solutions make use of sophisticated neural networks that require and use massive computing power. This in turn places demand for more intelligence in the storage infrastructure that must adapt to this never-ending cycle of demand for increasing functionality and more throughput and performance. Explore Artificial Intelligence
When it comes to deep learning, specifically training, accuracy and time-to-model matter, regardless of the size of the data sets. Training scales in a near-linear fashion which requires optimized and linearly scalable storage infrastructure. Explore Deep Learning
Panasas has a reputation for high reliability, thanks to the redundancy and resilience built into our products. However, even the highest-quality products and the best-architected systems eventually require support. That’s why Panasas offers support, professional services, and training that will help you maximize your investment and stay within budget. Explore Support
Help IT groups resolve issues quickly so they can meet availability requirements and get the most value from your storage system. Explore Support Plans
Gain the expertise you need with a limited-term professional engagement to address specific storage challenges or technical requirements. Explore Professional Services
Panasas provides in-depth training to drive high levels of technical proficiency with Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage systems. Explore Training Courses
Panasas® PanFS® on ActiveStor® Ultra supports industry and research innovation around the world, with the fastest plug-and-play parallel data storage system. Explore Company
PanFS® on ActiveStor® Ultra offers unlimited performance scaling in 4 GB/s building blocks, utilizing multi-tier intelligent data placement to maximize storage performance by placing metadata on low latency NVMe SSDs, small files on high IOPS SSDs, and large files on high-bandwidth HDDs. Explore High Performance
The new generation of PanFS® is integrated with state-of-the art COTS hardware to deliver the fastest parallel file system at any price point. Its frustration-free deployment, operation, and maintenance create a storage solution with the lowest total cost of ownership in its class. Explore Low Cost to Own and Operate
PanFS® on ActiveStor® Ultra offers frustration-free deployment, operation, and maintenance. You can get from dock-to-data in less than a day, and the low-touch solution requires no deep technical skills for ongoing administration. A single IT administrator can support systems of any size. Explore Surprisingly Simplicity
Fully automated online failure recovery delivers exceptional reliability. Explore Unparalleled Reliability
The new generation of PanFS® is a portable parallel filesystem ready to run on qualified commodity or OEM-certified storage hardware, allowing for rapid adoption of new hardware capabilities and an expanded portfolio of hardware options over time. Explore Extreme Flexibility
At Panasas®, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional customer service with a single-vendor problem resolution approach—ready to give you our undivided attention the moment you need it. Explore Timely, High-Quality Support
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