High Performance Storage Solutions
April 2010
Larry JonesVP, Product Marketing
Slide 2 Panasas, Inc.
Panasas Business Update
The momentum continues: Q1 revenue up 46% YoY
Panasas placed in Visionary quadrant by Gartner in High End NAS MQ
Two new product platforms by mid-year
LANL and Sandia choose Panasas for 12PB Cielo system
Revenue Growth – 2009 vs. 2008
-10-12%
+25%
WW Storage Industry
Panasas
Slide 3 Panasas, Inc.
The Market - Scale-Out NAS
Enterprise NAS
Business ApplicationsERP
FinanceCRMEmail
Other mission critical
HPCRisk Modeling
CFD SimulationSeismic ProcessingHigh Energy Physics
EDA OPCVisual Effects rendering
Genome sequencing
Technical ApplicationsTrading algorithm designCAE Design Computing
Geo InterpretationVisualization
RTL Design ComputingModel, texture creation
Drug DiscoveryGenome archives
Media multi-format archivesSW DevelopmentHome directories
Technical Enterprise
Panasas solves the most difficult storage problems with high reliability in an easy to use
appliance-like solution
Slide 4 Panasas, Inc.
Technical Enterprise Storage Problem
High ThroughputSequential I/O
Supercomputing
HPC Linux Cluster
High IOPsRandom I/O
Technical Apps
Linux/Windows/Unix
Low $/GBMassive Archive
Archive
Linux/Windows/Unix
Different applications and users across the workflow Creates storage silos by application and by vendor
Costly and inefficient
Slide 5 Panasas, Inc.
The Technical EnterpriseThe Technical Enterprise
Archive
Linux/Windows/Unix
PanFSPanFS
Panasas Solution
High ThroughputSequential I/O
High IOPsRandom I/OLow $/GB
Massive Archive
Supercomputing
HPC Linux Cluster
Technical Apps
Linux/Windows/Unix
High performance scale-out NAS solutions PanFS Storage Operating System delivers exceptional performance, scalability & manageability
Slide 6 Panasas, Inc.
Panasas Storage Product Line
Highest-EndActiveStor
Mid-RangeActiveStor
Entry LevelActiveStor
7Series
8Series
9Series
Availability / Management
Per
form
ance
/ S
cala
bil
ity
Single File System for Seamless ScalabilitySingle File System for Seamless Scalability
Slide 7 Panasas, Inc.
Performance (IOPs)
Capacity (TB)
US List Price
IsilonIQ5400S
NTAPFAS3160w/PAM
PanasasPAS-9
46,635 60,389 77,137
48 56 80
$494K $490K $500K
The Numbers Tell the Story
More Performance and Capacity for the Same Price
28- 66% 28- 66% Faster Faster
40-67% 40-67% More More
CapacityCapacity
Slide 8 Panasas, Inc.
Introducing PAS HC
Capture and archive massive amounts of data for technical computing applications
Provides the highest levels: Performance
Scalability
Manageability
Multi-Petabyte Scale-Out NAS Solution
Under NDA Until 4/20/10
Slide 9 Panasas, Inc.
PAS HC - Performance w/ High Density Footprint P
erfo
rman
ce
5 GB/s and 1 PB per rack – add racks for performance and/or scalability
New Intel® Nehalem Microarchitecture
New 64 bit O/S
Faster memory, multi-core optimized
64 Gb/s Fibre Channel backend capacity
Capacity
Under NDA Until 4/20/10
Slide 10 Panasas, Inc.
High Density PackagingHigh Density Packaging
120 TB per 4u shelf120 TB per 4u shelf
Up To 960 TB per rackUp To 960 TB per rack
PanFS Storage Operating SystemPanFS Storage Operating System
Global namespaceGlobal namespace
Add capacity without disruptionAdd capacity without disruption
Multi-petabyte scaleMulti-petabyte scale
Massive single storage poolsMassive single storage pools
Unlimited file system sizeUnlimited file system size Up to 12,000 clientsUp to 12,000 clients
PAS HC – Massive ScalabilityUnder NDA Until 4/20/10
Slide 11 Panasas, Inc.
PAS HC - Manageability
Low TCO
Low price/GB/floor tile
Cost efficiency
Add capacity without disruption
High Availability
RAID 6 data protection
Redundant power & cooling
Automatic transparent failover & restoral
Ease of Administration
Single point of management
Self configuring – Installs in 15 minutes
Under NDA Until 4/20/10
Slide 12 Panasas, Inc.
Panasas Product Family
BalancedPerformance& Capacity
PAS 8PAS 8
Optimized for Highest
Performance
PAS 9PAS 9
Entry-LevelPerformance& Capacity
PAS 7PAS 7
Introducing the PAS HC
Developed with/for largest Panasas customers
HighCapacityArchive
PASPAS HCHC
Under NDA Until 4/20/10
Slide 13 Panasas, Inc.
The Panasas Difference
Patented file system
Global namespace
Infinite scale
Multi-protocol support Parallel and direct access
pNFS open source standard
High reliability
Tiered parity data protection
Automatic load balancing
PanFS Storage Operating System
Workstations/PCs Workstations/PCsHPC
Cluster
NFS DirectFLOW CIFSNFS DirectFLOW CIFS/pNFS/pNFS
PanFSPanFS
PAS 7/8PAS 7/8 PAS 9PAS 9PAS HCPAS HC
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