Exxact Joins Panasas Accelerate Channel Partner Program

Exxact Corporation and Panasas, Inc. announce a partnership with Exxact joining the Panasas Accelerate Channel Partner Program as a distributor and integrator for the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra product line, providing installation, configuration and support services.

ActiveStor Ultra features the new gen of the Panasas PanFS parallel file system.

Built for price/performance and engineered for manageability, the PanFS is integrated with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to deliver fast parallel file system at any price point.

Exxact has been providing HPC solutions that can be customised to industry requirements and scaled to multiple sized organisations.

“By partnering with Panasas, an industry leader in HPC storage, we are able to offer our customers a top tier, fully integrated and turnkey HPC storage solution, and ActiveStor Ultra with PanFS is a perfect fit for this,” said Jason Chen, VP, Exxact. “ActiveStor Ultra’s focus on HPC performance, while also offering reliability and simplicity in a single package gives our customers an HPC storage solution that’s easy to deploy and manage.”

“Exxact Corporation comes to the table with strong roots in HPC, and a business model well-suited to leverage the strength of Panasas ActiveStor Ultra in our key markets and verticals – making this a strategic win-win scenario for both of our companies,” said Phil Crocker, senior development director of global channel marketing and business, Panasas. “We value Exxact’s extensive technical HPC systems experience and its ability to provide fully integrated system solutions for customers worldwide.“

Exxact to offer multiple Panasas ActiveStor Ultra turnkey storage clusters, including: 

• 2PB Cluster: 4x ActiveStor Ultra, 1x ActiveStor Director, 16GB/s transfer speed
• 5PB Cluster: 16x ActiveStor Ultra, 4x ActiveStor Director, 64GB/s transfer speed
• 10PB Cluster: 32x ActiveStor Ultra, 8x ActiveStor Director, 128GB/s transfer speed

ActiveStor Ultra delivers limitless performance scaling and management simplicity for the demanding HPC and AI projects in a scale-out plug-and-play appliance that runs the PanFS portable parallel file system on industry-standard commodity hardware. Designed for performance and scalability, it is for applications that require the processing of large and complex data sets with high precision. Its tuning-free environment, data reliability and management simplicity have earned ActiveStor Ultra a reputation for the HPC storage system with low TCO.

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