Panasas PanFS 5.5 BriefingFEBRUARY, 2014

Embargoed until March 11

PANASAS PRODUCT MARKETING

INTRODUCTIONS

Geoffrey Noer, Sr. Director of Product Marketinggnoer@panasas.com+1 408 215 6780+1.408.215.6780

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PANASAS OVERVIEW

Scale-out NAS Solutions for Enterprise and Research• ActiveStor appliances in 5th generation• Shipping Since 2004 with 19 patents issued (more pending)Shipping Since 2004, with 19 patents issued (more pending)

Panasas Management• Storage-focused executive management team

Highly experienced technical team• Highly experienced technical team− Dr. Garth Gibson, Founder & Chief Scientist, Author of “Berkeley RAID Paper”

VC FundedS V t I t l C it l M h D id C l l G• Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, Mohr Davidow, Carlyle Group, Centennial

Industry Recognition

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Faye Pairman, Panasas CEO

Cloud Project of the Year

Public Sector Storage Project

of the Year

PANASAS GROWTH

Strong Financial Position• Fueled by growing base of

customers in both commercial

Active Customer Count

customers in both commercial and public sectors

Global Presence>400 active customers• >400 active customers

• >50 countries

Loyal, Brand Name Customers • High repeat-buy rate

Worldwide Support with Over 50 Resellers

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WHAT WE DO: NEXT-GEN STORAGE

COMPUTE CLIENTS

Legacy Storage Panasas ActiveStorCOMPUTE CLIENTS

CPUs = RAID ENGINES

PANASAS DIRECTFLOWPANASAS DIRECTFLOWPARALLEL + SCALABLE

RAID RAID RAID RAID

File server

PANASAS STORAGENETAPP HP DELLNETAPP HP DELLNETAPP, HP, DELLNETAPP, HP, DELL

Traditional file system Serial data path Metadata server is in the data path

Parallel file system Parallel data path Metadata server out of band

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Metadata server is in the data path RAID bottlenecked by file server Block-based RAID – entire drives are reconstructed

Metadata server out of band RAID performance scales with number of clients Object RAID – only damaged files are rebuilt

PANASAS® ACTIVESTOR™

Leading Performance, Fully Parallel• Bladed design allows capacity and performance to

scale linearly to 8PB and 150GB/sscale linearly to 8PB and 150GB/s• No in-band filer heads or hardware RAID

controllers to constrain performance

Easy to Deploy Use and Manage Easy to Deploy, Use, and Manage• Tightly integrated system• Set up or grow capacity in under ten minutes• Single global namespaceSingle, global namespace

High Reliability and Availability• Object RAID with vertical parity and parallel RAID

reconstruction limits exposure upon drive failurereconstruction limits exposure upon drive failure• High redundancy in hardware and software

ActiveStor 1410 h l 830TB

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10 shelves, 830TB

ACTIVESTOR BLADE ARCHITECTURE

Storage Blade

Storage Blade

Director Blade

Director Blade

CPU cache network CPU cache data storage

ActiveStor ApplianceActiveStor Appliance

CPU, cache, network Orchestrates system activity Metadata services

CPU, cache, data storage Enables parallel reads/writes Advanced caching algorithms

Switch Switch Full Full

Up to 83TB per 4U chassis Scalable to over 8 petabytes

U t 1 6GB/ h i

S tcModuleS tcModuleRackRack

Up to 1.6GB/s per chassis Easy to install, easy to manage Low Total Cost of Ownership

10GbE networking InfiniBand Router 2 option

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InfiniBand Router 2 option for IB connectivity

830TB & 15GB/s per 40U rack

ACTIVESTOR 14: SATA + SSD

Intelligent, Unified, and Cost Effective• Large files stored on high capacity Enterprise SATA

hard drives120-

480GBhard drives• Metadata and up to 60KB files stored on SSD• Up to 8x faster small file performance and directory

listings

SSD

8-16GBC h

CPU

g• Improved file system responsiveness to end users

Hybrid Storage Ideal for Mixed Workloads• Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS

Cache

2-4TBHDD x2Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS

• Up to 14,000 random 4KB file read IOPS per shelf

ActiveStor 14Storage Blade

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INTRODUCING PANFS 5.5

ActiveStor with PanFS 5.5 is the first scale-out NAS solution for technical computing workflows with enterprise-grade Microsoft® Windows® supportWindows® support

Compatibility with mixed IT environments is important for many technical computing workflows:• Data uploaded from Windows workstation• Data analyzed/simulated on Linux compute cluster• Results inspected/visualized on Windows workstation

PanFS 5.5 significantly improves ActiveStor suitability for enterprise deployments• Energy, Finance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment

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PANFS 5.5 FEATURES

Enterprise Grade Microsoft® Windows® Support• Commercially licensed CIFS protocol

− SMB 1.0, 2.0, 2.1• Comprehensive Windows client support

− Windows Server 2003, 2008 (including RC2)− Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

• Improved integration into heterogeneous IT environmentsImproved integration into heterogeneous IT environments− High fidelity Access Control List (ACL) support (including inheritance)− Active Directory enhancements: trusted domain support

• Improved manageability− Single computer account/single domain joinSingle computer account/single domain join

Performance Enhancements• Up to 2x faster Windows access• Up to 67% faster NFS v3 accessUp to 67% faster NFS v3 access

New Availability and Security Features• File system availability now at more granular level (per-volume basis)

− Builds on PanFS 5.0 RAID reconstruction volume priority feature

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p y• Enhanced DirectFlow security: IP-Based exports control

PANFS 5.5 PRICING & AVAILABILITY

Compatibility• ActiveStor 11, 12, 14

P i i Pricing• PanFS 5.5 is available free of charge for all Panasas systems under a

current support & maintenance agreement

Availability• PanFS 5.5 is expected to ship March 31, 2014

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THANK YOU!

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