Versant and Panasas Deliver High Performance Database and Storage for Application Developers

REDWOOD CITY, CA and FREMONT, CA, Nov 12 (MARKET WIRE)
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Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT), an industry leader in specialized
data management software, and Panasas, the leading provider of storage
for the world's most performance-intensive applications, today announced
a partnership to help accelerate database and storage performance for
high-end application developers. The combined platform addresses the most
demanding database and storage requirements found in high performance
computing applications, especially for financial services, modeling and
simulation, and complex telecommunication network management.

"We are developing sophisticated financial analysis and real-time trading
applications, requiring sub second market access to literally millions of
data elements," says Philip Beckley, CEO of Puertofino Software, LLC, a
financial services company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "We selected the
Panasas storage system and the Versant Object Database for maximum
performance and reliability in our mission critical application, providing
us with a significant competitive advantage. We are particularly impressed
with the seamless compatibility and the almost infinite scalability of the
solution."

Panasas provides parallel access to storage with very high concurrency
that allows customers of both Panasas and Versant to build new
applications for life sciences, financial services and satellite imaging
that cannot be done with traditional SAN/NAS storage and relational
databases. The Versant Object Database allows these complex applications
to be built quickly, while Panasas provides the storage I/O and
scalability to achieve a customer's performance targets.

"Our customers are developing highly specialized data management
applications where performance, scalability and reliability are of the
utmost importance," said David Ingersoll, vice president, sales at
Versant. "The Panasas storage solutions are a perfect fit for our high
performance computing customers, extending our high performance, dual
cache database architecture beyond traditional database platforms."

Versant Object Database

The Versant Object Database is the market leader in object databases.
Using Versant Object Database for data storage brings powerful advantages
to applications that use complex C++, Java and .NET object models, have
high concurrency requirements and large data sets. The Versant Object
Database is designed to handle the navigational access, seamless data
distribution, and enterprise scale often required by these applications.

Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage

Panasas provides the most comprehensive family of parallel storage
solutions available today. Every Panasas ActiveStor(TM) system is based on
the leading PanFS(TM) Parallel File System and delivers exceptional
performance, scalability and manageability. Leveraging its DirectFLOW(R)
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.

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.

About Versant

Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT) is an industry leader in database
management software, helping software developers to create unique
applications handling complex information and high performance / high
availability requirements. Versant customers cut hardware costs, speed and
simplify development, and significantly reduce administration costs.
Versant's solutions are deployed in a wide array of industries, including
telecommunications, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, and
defense. With over 50,000 installations, Versant has been a highly
reliable partner for Global 2000 companies such as Ericsson, Verizon,
Siemens, US Government, and Financial Times. For more information, call
650-232-2400 or visit www.versant.com.

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

Media Contacts:
Versant Corporation
Jerry Wong
Email Contact
650.232.2400

Panasas, Inc.
Angela Griffo
Email Contact
949.842.7695

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