Force India Formula One Team Speeds Up With Panasas Storage

FREMONT, CA, Nov 09 (MARKET WIRE) --
Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage
solutions for the world's most performance-intensive applications,
announced today that Force India Formula One Team has increased the
performance and capacity of its engineering simulation solution through
the deployment of Panasas ActiveStor storage. Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) simulations are a critical part of Force India's car
design process to continually improve the team's on-track, aerodynamic
performance.

In conjunction with physical wind-tunnel testing, Force India relies on
virtual prototypes and CFD methods to improve racing car aerodynamics.
Maximizing the impact of its CFD process leads to engineering
advancements that provide the company's drivers with the best chance of a
podium finish. The challenge Force India faced from an IT perspective was
providing a data storage solution that could keep pace in this rigorous
environment.

"With our engineers applying larger and more complex models, we were
seeing a massive increase in storage requirements in terms of capacity
and speed," said Adrian Collinson, head of IT, Force India. "We required
a high-performance storage solution that met our performance
requirements, was easy to scale as our requirements grow, and was easy to
administer and maintain. After testing other solutions, Panasas was the
obvious choice -- the scalability, speed and cost matched exactly what we
were looking for."

The Panasas ActiveStor solution was provided by UK channel partner, OCF
plc. "Panasas is the perfect storage solution for data-intensive
environments such as engineering simulation," said Greg Furmidge, HPC
account manager, OCF plc. "Any customer that requires performance and
capacity with extreme ease-of-use should be considering Panasas. It was
the perfect recommendation for Force India."

"Panasas ActiveStor storage is now deployed at more than half of the
world's Formula One racing teams as well as many of the world's major
automotive, aerospace and general manufacturing organizations," said Derek
Burke, marketing director EMEA, Panasas, Inc. "We've got the right balance
of capacity, performance and ease-of-use that helps our customers to
innovate faster and at a lower cost."

About Force India Formula One Team

Founded in October 2007 through the acquisition of Spyker F1 (formerly
Midland F1 Racing and Jordan Grand Prix), Force India Formula One Team is
based in Silverstone, UK, and co-owned by Dr. Vijay Mallya and Michiel
Mol. The team participates in the FIA Formula One World Championship.

About OCF plc

Based in Sheffield, UK, with customers throughout Great Britain and
Ireland, OCF designs, integrates and supports innovative high-performance
computing, high-performance visualization and data storage solutions.

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, offer 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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