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

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

REDWOOD CITY and FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 12, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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.

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CONTACT: Versant Corporation
Jerry Wong
650.232.2400
jwong@versant.com

Panasas, Inc.
Angela Griffo
949.842.7695
panasas@trainercomm.com