Panasas Overview

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Panasas Success Overview

• Private, venture-backed company based in Silicon
  Valley, founded in 1999 by CTO Garth Gibson a
  Professor at CMU and Co-inventor of RAID
• Panasas technology combines a parallel file
  system with a storage hardware architecture for
  the markets first HPC storage appliance
• Panasas has an established HPC industry
  leadership role in parallel storage
• Storage system for Roadrunner top of top 500
  Gibson lead PI of SciDAC PDSI
• Panasas one of Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2009
  at SC08 among 5 awards
• Revenue growth of 48 for 1H09 vs. 1H08, rest of
  storage industry in decline
• Unique strategy and products begin with the
  customers HPC objectives
• Panasas has made critical investments in ISVs and
  research application software
• Panasas customers are leaders in industry and
  research

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Panasas Recent Developments

• Apr 09 Reengineered product release of Series
  7/8/9 including SSD
• Jun 09 ActiveScale 3.4 ? 40 improved single
  client IBM Power6 4 TB blades
• Gartner Aug 09 pNFS update Storage vendors EMC,
  NetApp, and Panasas first
• Reseller relationships strengthening with Dell,
  Penguin, SGI, and BULL
• under development
  ? PNNL 1st customer
• Added 20 new customers 1H09, including several
  high-profile organizations

INDUSTRY
RESEARCH
Force India Formula 1 (UK) GE Global Research
(India) Pratt Whitney Canada Procter
Gamble Canon (Japan)
Clemson Univ CCMS CAE Research Queensland Dept
Nat Resources Water Georgia Tech -- Systems
Biology Research Oklahoma Univ OSCER Severe
Storm Ctr Pacific Northwest NL Fuel Cell
Research