Panasas Signs Technology Partnership With Hortonworks

Panasas, Inc. announced a technology partnership with Hortonworks, Inc., a commercial vendor
promoting the innovation, development, and support of Apache Hadoop.

As part of the agreement, Panasas will become a member of the Hortonworks
Technology Partner Program, which was formed to accelerate the growth of an Apache Hadoop ecosystem through technology collaboration, technical
support, joint testing and evangelism.

"Panasas is eager to work
with Hortonworks, a premier company in the space, to develop technologies that
will allow the rapid adoption of Apache Hadoop in technical computing markets,"
said Barbara Murphy, CMO at Panasas. "Our
shared purpose is to help our customers obtain business value from their data
quickly and easily."

The two companies will work together to ensure compatibility between
the Hortonworks Data Platform and Panasas parallel storage products, as well as
on future technologies, to improve the ability to move data on and off
dedicated Hadoop clusters to an available, long-term storage appliance
like Panasas ActiveStor. Panasas has delivered storage systems to big data
markets since 2004 and is working on enhancements to Apache Hadoop to improve
interoperability with external storage.

"The rapid adoption of
Hadoop in technical computing environments is driving the need for greater
interoperability between various storage platforms, file systems and Hadoop
applications," said Mitch Ferguson, VP of business development at
Hortonworks. "Panasas is an
established leader in parallel file systems and the expertise it will bring to
Hadoop will be invaluable."