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Panasas Positioned as Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Mon, March 29th, 2010
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For midrange and high-end NAS
Panasas, Inc. has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the 2010 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions" (by Pushan Rinnen, Robert Passmore, and Roger Cox, March 15, 2010).
"We believe Panasas' position in the Visionaries quadrant by Gartner reflects our ability to provide scale-out NAS solutions to customers who need high-performance storage solutions that are easy to implement and manage," said Randy Strahan, CEO of Panasas. "Our customer growth in markets beyond traditional HPC environments has provided valuable insight into buyer's wants and needs and will enable us to incorporate new high-performance capabilities into our products."
The report, evaluated 12 vendors that met the market definition and passed the inclusion/exclusion criteria for midrange and high-end NAS solutions.
Panasas had to meet all the following criteria
for its inclusion in the report:
"We believe Panasas' position in the Visionaries quadrant by Gartner reflects our ability to provide scale-out NAS solutions to customers who need high-performance storage solutions that are easy to implement and manage," said Randy Strahan, CEO of Panasas. "Our customer growth in markets beyond traditional HPC environments has provided valuable insight into buyer's wants and needs and will enable us to incorporate new high-performance capabilities into our products."
The report, evaluated 12 vendors that met the market definition and passed the inclusion/exclusion criteria for midrange and high-end NAS solutions.
Panasas had to meet all the following criteria
for its inclusion in the report:
- Support a scale-up or scale-out architecture
- Offer NFS and/or CIFS as standard client data and/or metadata access protocols
- Provide primary file system storage, instead of storage that narrowly targets backup or archive data
- Have an average selling price of $25,000 or more
- Generate annual revenue of $5 million or more
- Have global presence in two or more large geographic markets
- Market recognition, market share and revenue data
- Client interest, as measured by the level of client inquiry received on a vendor's products, and other client feedback
- Use of unique, unusual or interesting technology
Our comments :
More precisely, here is the opinion of Gartner on Isilon:
Strengths
- Panasas is a well-know brand in the HPC environment with large Linux clusters, most notably in the oil/gas, high-tech manufacturing and government labs. Its ActiveStor is a scale-out storage cluster that offers parallel data access for high bandwidth. Its object-based file system provides fast disk rebuild and more granularity than traditional file systems. In 2009, the company added SSDs to boost performance for metadata and small files and introduced heterogeneous remote replication based on Bakbone technology.
- The Panasas systems continue to appeal to customers through their high performance, the ease of implementation and management, as well as data integrity and system reliability. In some cutting-edge environments that require extremely high bandwidth, Panasas is often one of the very few viable solutions available in the market.
- Panasas enhanced its channel partnerships and increased channel sales to 50% of the company revenue in 2009. Despite the economic downturn in 2009, Panasas grew its revenue with a double-digit growth rate.
- Panasas' ActiveStor has very low presence in the broader, horizontal storage market. The company has not partnered with major horizontal application vendors such as VMware or Oracle.
- Panasas' ActiveStor is rarely used in the Windows environment as a general-purpose enterprise NAS system for Windows file server consolidation.
- Although Panasas offers an innovative vertical parity protection to extend data protection beyond simple RAID 5, it's still developing a true RAID 6 support for data protection against two simultaneous drive failures.
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