New Panasas Systems' Support of IBM Power Linux Servers Drives Performance Breakthroughs for Data-Intensive Technical

FREMONT, CA, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of storage for the world's most
performance-intensive applications, today announced that the company has
partnered with IBM to develop integrated support and optimized application
performance when new Panasas ActiveStor storage systems are configured
with IBM Power Systems running Linux. The combination provides outstanding
performance levels and is an ideal solution for data-intensive
applications in many industries including aerospace, energy, finance,
government, life sciences, consumer products, and manufacturing.

The exceptional throughput of the Panasas parallel storage architecture
eliminates bottlenecks in application performance for faster time to
results, enabling customers to accelerate innovation by running their
simulations and other data-intensive workloads significantly faster. In
addition, IBM's Power blade servers provide a secure, resilient and
dynamic compute layer solution that helps drive down costs, reduces risk,
improves energy efficiency and enhances flexibility.

"High-performance and data-intensive application environments are growing
segments of the market in which IBM Power servers offer exceptional
computational performance, especially in clustered configurations," said
Katalin Bartfai-Walcott, IBM sales executive and senior technical staff
member. "Panasas' leading-edge storage performance and scalability allow
us to help customers scale as their businesses grow. Panasas ActiveStor
storage and IBM Power Linux servers are the perfect match to deliver the
robustness, scalability, and performance to meet high-performance storage
and parallel I/O needs, and dramatically improve total cost of ownership.
We see the synergy between our two product lines as strategic to our
business and look forward to developing best-of-breed solutions for our
common customers."

"One of our large oil and gas customers has measured more than 500MB/s of
read and write performance from a single IBM Power 6 server," added Larry
Jones, vice president of marketing, Panasas. "We're impressed with the
initial performance reports and believe our relationship with IBM is
important because these new solutions deliver unlimited scalability, as
well as investment protection and improved productivity for our joint
customers."

Panasas ActiveStor Benefits

Panasas provides the most comprehensive family of high-performance
parallel storage solutions available today. Every Panasas ActiveStor
system is based on the leading PanFS(TM) Parallel File System and
delivers exceptional performance, scalability and manageability.
Leveraging DirectFLOW(R), a parallel storage access technology, Panasas
now supports more than 500,000 servers with cost-effective,
data-intensive, and linearly scalable storage solutions. This innovative
architecture enables multiple parallel data paths between computing nodes
and Panasas ActiveStor storage, thereby eliminating the inherent
performance and capacity bottlenecks of today's file systems and file
servers. Panasas also dramatically lowers the cost of managing data
storage by supporting petabytes of data capacity growth within a single,
easily managed namespace and framework.

Availability

Panasas ActiveStor Series 7 and Series 8 systems with IBM Power Linux
servers are immediately available through Panasas' direct and reseller
channels worldwide. The ActiveStor Series 9 will be available during the
second half of 2009. For more information, visit www.panasas.com.

About Panasas

Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage for the
world's most performance-intensive applications, helps commercial,
government and academic organizations accelerate their time to results,
leading to real world breakthroughs that improve people's lives. Panasas'
high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits
of compute clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with
legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage
Clusters, in conjunction with the ActiveScale(R) Operating Environment and
PanFS(TM) parallel file system, offers the most comprehensive portfolio of
storage solutions for high performance computing (HPC) environments.
Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information,
please visit www.panasas.com.

Panasas, ActiveScale, ActiveStor, DirectFLOW and PanFS are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.

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