Panasas ActiveStor 20 Hybrid Scale-Out NAS Appliance Scalable Up to 45PB

Panasas, Inc. introduced ActiveStor 20, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, featuring a 65% increase in flash and a 25% increase in HDD capacity.

High-density flash drives and 10TB HGST Ultrastar He10 helium-based HDDs deliver unstructured sequential file and mixed-workload performance with rapid access to large and small files alike. Scalabiltity increases to more than 45PB in a single namespace and performance ramps up to 360GB/s and 2.6 million IO/s.

“Organizations continue to demand new scalable capabilities from storage, compute and data management that allow them to keep pace with the staggering growth of data,” said David Sallak, VP, products and solutions, Panasas. “ActiveStor 20 gives those who innovate, discover and develop at the leading edge a robust and scalable storage solution that meets high-performance expectations and improves on our outstanding TCO by delivering more capacity than ever, while holding the line on price.“

Based on a fifth-generation storage blade architecture, ActiveStor 20 continues the company’s tradition of accelerating time-to-results and simplifying data management for demanding storage environments in life sciences, manufacturing, media, government, energy, and university research markets.

Key features of ActiveStor 20:

• Up to 208TB ⁽¹⁾ capacity per ActiveStor

• Up to 45PB ⁽²⁾ max. PanFS namespace capacity

• 1,800MB/s read and 1,600MB/s write performance ⁽¹⁾ per ActiveStor

• 360GB/s ⁽²⁾ max. PanFS namespace throughput

• 13,000 IO/s ⁽¹⁾ per ActiveStor

• >2,600,000 IO/s ⁽²⁾ max. PanFS namespace IO/s

• DirectFlow, NFS and SMB protocol support

• Multiprotocol support for Linux, Apple Mac and Windows clients

• PanFS 6.1 data availability and management features, including software-based

• RAID-6+, snapshots, user and group quotas, and SiteSync data replication

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ActiveStor is an integrated clustered NAS appliance solution that incorporates flash and SATA storage nodes, a distributed performance-optimized file system, and client protocols to deliver data that is accessible, secure and easily managed.

The patented PanFS 6.1 file system provides a single point of management across all systems and data. The DirectFlow data access protocol allows Linux and MacOS compute clients to access firm’s storage directly and in parallel, eliminating hotspots while delivering higher performance than what can be achieved with industry standard protocols. Data-protection is delivered through  RAID-6+ software erasure-coding methods that increase reliability at scale, alongside bundled enterprise data services such as snapshots, user and group quotas, and SiteSync data replication.

ActiveStor 20 is available for ordering. Production systems will ship in August 2016.

⁽¹⁾ Based on a 1+10 configuration of 10 storage nodes per ActiveStor
⁽²⁾ No enforced limits. Max. tested configuration: 130 shelves