It seems as though Panasas is expanding its portfolio. Here is a blurb from their most recent press release.

” HPC storage vendor Panasas has launched PAS HC, a high capacity HPC storage solution for active archives and massive primary storage. The offering is aimed at organizations whose active data is expanding into the petabyte realm, outgrowing their traditional NAS or direct attached storage setups.

PAS HC is just the latest offering in Panasas’ NAS storage line. PAS, by the way, is the company’s new shorthand for all the Panasas ActiveStor lines, although, in this case, the architecture of PAS HC is quite different from that of the existing PAS 7, 8, and 9 series products. The latter are blade-based servers that use SATA drives, while the HC is implemented as a rackmount Nehalem-based storage system filled with Fibre Channel JBODs — a first for Panasas.”

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