Panasas Updates PanFS OS for NAS

 Panasas, Inc. has released PanFS 5.5, a storage OS update for its ActiveStor scale-out NAS appliances featuring enterprise-grade Windows support.

Panasas now addresses a wider range of business-critical applications, helping customers drive product and research innovation.

“PanFS 5.5 broadens the appeal of our ActiveStor scale-out storage appliances because robust Windows support is vitally important to many of our current and prospective customers,” said Faye Pairman, Panasas CEO. “This new release makes ActiveStor even more suitable for deployments in energy, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, and other markets where high-quality Windows interoperability is required.”

Now an Authorized Microsoft Protocol Licensee in the Microsoft Communication Protocol Program (MCPP), Panasas has replaced its previous open source Samba implementation with a commercially licensed, Microsoft-compliant protocol offering reliable Windows interoperability.

With PanFS 5.5, users can access their data sets from Windows, Linux, and UNIX systems, a core requirement for many technical research and enterprise workflows.

The PanFS 5.5 storage OS is available and is compatible with ActiveStor 14, the Panasas hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, in addition to ActiveStor 11 and 12.