Panasas announced PanFS 9

Panasas, a historic player in HPC Storage with its parallel file system, today unveils the 9th major release of PanFS.

With its ActiveStor Ultra product line, the company continues to address adjacent needs beyond HPC with AI/ML needs, an other very demanding environment.

In this release, the team has added some new security features like file labeling for Security-Enhanced Linux and support of hardware-based encryption. The approach works at 2 levels, on the logical space, the access control uses the file-labeling capabilities and on the physical layer, the storage engine leverages AES-256 to guarantee automatic instant protection for data at rest. On the key management side, the firm partners with leading solutions.

Despite a real technology expertise and industry recognition, the company continues to suffer from a lack of visibility except from experts and lost some opportunities against new file storage players, both more classic but also in the same category. We expect to visit and meet again Panasas during a future edition of The IT Press Tour and looking forward to meeting the company during SC in Saint Louis in November.