Panasas Corporate & Product Overview

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1 Panasas Corporate & Product Overview JULY, 2014 PANASAS PRODUCT MARKETING

2 PANASAS OVERVIEW Scale-out NAS Solutions for Enterprise and Research ActiveStor appliances in 5th generation Shipping Since 2004, with 19 patents issued (more pending) Panasas Management Storage-focused executive management team Highly experienced technical team Dr. Garth Gibson, Founder & Chief Scientist, Author of Berkeley RAID Paper VC Funded Mohr Davidow, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, Focus Ventures, Centennial Ventures Industry Recognition Cloud Project of the Year Faye Pairman, Panasas CEO Public Sector Storage Project of the Year COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 2

3 PANASAS GROWTH Strong Financial Position Fueled by growing base of customers in both commercial and public sectors Global Presence >450 active customers >50 countries Loyal, Brand Name Customers High repeat-buy rate Active Customer Count Worldwide Support with Over 50 Resellers COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 3

4 ENERGY EXPLORATION Top Workloads: Seismic Processing Reservoir Simulation & Modeling Visualization & Interpretation Customer: Geofizyka Kraków (Poland) Seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation, well logging, and Vertical Seismic Processing (VSP) services Challenge: Performance demands exceeding the throughput capability of legacy NAS systems, causing lost productivity and maintenance nightmares Solution: Panasas ActiveStor [With Panasas,] I ve found our overall IT workflow to be much more manageable. Furthermore, our geophysicists are much more productive as they are experiencing a much quicker turnaround on their seismic processing jobs and we are able to deliver faster and more accurate results to our customers, said Leszek Boryczko, computer systems manager. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 4

5 ACADEMIC RESEARCH Top Workloads: Private Clouds Life Sciences High Energy Physics Computational Chemistry Customer: UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE) Private cloud storage for virtually every department Challenge: Performance demands exceeding the throughput capability of its legacy NAS systems, causing lost productivity and maintenance nightmares Solution: ActiveStor 11 & 12 In addition to stellar performance, Panasas had a very simple, clean model that worked well for us. One of the other key decision factors was that we just liked the Panasas people the most. We were looking for a partnership, not just products, said Dr. Scott Friedman, Chief Technologist, IDRE COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 5

6 GOVERNMENT Top Workloads: Weather Forecasting Weapons Simulation Imaging & Search Customer: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Global climate research, funded by STFC (UK gov t) Challenges: Replace legacy direct attach storage with HPC storage and a parallel file system to support rapidly expanding climate modeling workloads Deploy a low cost-per-terabyte solution offering extreme scalability, easy integration, and simple management Solution: ActiveStor 11 (8.5 PB) Much of our problem with Network Attached Storage was it was chewing up sysadmin and data scientists moving data around. Now we re in a situation where much of that is being reduced to a portion of one person. For a petascale archive that s brilliant, said Dr. Bryan Lawrence, Director of the Centre for Environmental Archival. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 6

7 MANUFACTURING Top Workloads: Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Optical Correction Thermal Mechanics Customer: ATK Aerospace Solid rocket propulsion systems, missile defense, solar arrays and satellite management systems Challenge: Deploy stable, reliable, high performance storage system for design engineering that would not require a great amount of maintenance effort Solution: ActiveStor 12 (60TB) Panasas ActiveStor speeds up our design and simulation processes and saves us an incredible amount of time and money, said Ramesh Krishnan, Sr. Staff Engineer Panasas has one of the nicest file systems I ve ever used. It s what storage should be it s something that you don t have to think about. It just does its thing, said Nate Fuhriman, System Administrator COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 7

8 LIFE SCIENCES Top Workloads: Genomics (Next-gen Sequencing) Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Molecular Modeling & Simulation Customer: National Institutes of Health National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Challenges: Meet demands of genomics researchers from around the globe accessing the NCBI public database Eliminate I/O bottlenecks to public databases, including an estimated 1.5 PB of genetic information for the 1000 Genomes Project Find an easy to manage solution Solution: ActiveStor (Multiple Generations) Technology advances that have brought down the cost of sequencing have contributed to an explosion of data. Panasas helps NCBI keep pace with the volume and complexity of incoming information in a cost-effective manner. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 8

9 PRODUCT OVERVIEW COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 9

10 PANASAS ACTIVESTOR No Compromise Hybrid Scale-Out NAS High Parallel Performance Direct data access eliminates traditional NAS bottlenecks Capacity and performance scale linearly to 12PB and 150GB/s Flash accelerated hybrid architecture Easy Management Minimal management effort at scale Set up or grow capacity in <10 minutes Single, global namespace Enterprise-Grade Reliability Triple parity protection with RAID 6+ Reliability increases with scale Extended File System Availability ActiveStor 16 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 10

11 PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM ActiveStor Appliance Panasas Architecture COMPUTE CLIENTS CPUs = RAID ENGINES Powered by PanFS storage operating system 122.4TB per shelf scales to 12PB 1.5GB/s per shelf scales to 150GB/s PANASAS DIRECTFLOW PARALLEL + SCALABLE Director Blade Storage Blade PANASAS ACTIVESTOR Metadata access System management Parallel data access Advanced caching Single global namespace Single system to manage Seamless scaling with no downtime Pay as you grow Linear performance scaling COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 11

12 ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW Linux/Unix Servers HPC Linux Clusters Windows Workstations High Speed 10Gb or InfiniBand Network NFS DirectFlow SMB (CIFS) PanFS Parallel File System ActiveStor Hardware Platform ActiveStor 11/12 ActiveStor 14 ActiveStor 16 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 12

13 ACTIVESTOR PERFORMANCE Performance architecture Direct data access Parallel data transfer Flash acceleration Linear scalability Active capacity balancing Exceptional aggregate performance Small workloads Large workloads Mixed workloads No hardware RAID bottlenecks Client nodes calculate per-file RAID parity RAID performance scales with the number of clients accessing storage COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 13

14 MULTI-PROTOCOL ACCESS DirectFlow Maximizes Linux Client Performance Parallel, direct I/O architecture Framework for pnfs standard Director blades scale metadata Storage blades scale I/O NFS and SMB (CIFS) Access Fully supported for heterogeneous client access Clients automatically balanced across director blades Enterprise-grade SMB (CIFS) implementation Networking Flexibility 10Gb Ethernet InfiniBand Panasas DirectFlow Data Path COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 14

15 EFFICIENT LINEAR SCALABILITY Performance does not drop off as performance modules are added Seamless linear scaling by adding storage and director blades No performance brick wall or need for islands of storage Efficient Scaling = Outstanding TCO at Scale Effective scaling for multiple protocols (DirectFlow, NFS, and CIFS) Network resources and bandwidth scale with the system Performance scaling independently verified by ESG: COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 15

16 LINEAR SCALABILITY CUSTOMER SITE Configuration: 90 ActiveStor 14 shelves 27 director blades 180 compute nodes (3200 processes) Only 2 compute nodes/shelf Linear Scalability as Expected! GB/s write, GB/s read (1429MB/s per shelf ) MB/s possible with more clients predicts GB/s at 100 shelves COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 16

17 ACTIVESTOR HYBRID TECHNOLOGY Flash and Hybrid Leadership Intelligent Hybrid Architecture Integrated multi-tier design with cache, SSD Flash, and SATA hard drives Intelligently managed for maximum performance in relation to cost Large File Workloads Cost effective placement of large files on SATA with performance RAID striping for high throughput Small File Workloads Small files reside on SSD for high IOPS Flash performance File Metadata Resides on SSD for increased file system responsiveness COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 17

18 EASY TO DEPLOY, USE AND MANAGE Easy to Deploy <10 min. to set up (ESG Lab Test) Automatic recognition of new storage makes scaling a breeze Easy to Use Compute nodes see a single, unified name space Files are automatically load balanced for maximum performance Easy to Manage Single management view via PanActive Manager GUI (or CLI) Snapshots and user quotas reduce administrator time SNMP for integration into third party management tools Single Point of Single Point of Management Management Simple out-of-box Simple out-of-box experience experience Seamlessly deploy new blades Scriptable CLI PanActive Manager Capacity & load Capacity & load balancing balancing Snapshots Snapshots 1-touch reporting capabilities 1-touch reporting Scriptable capabilities CLI COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 18

19 RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY AT SCALE Hardware RAID Increasingly a Problem for Legacy Storage Reliability and availability get worse with scale Multi-day rebuild times becoming common Odds of encountering sector errors too high, even for RAID 6 PanFS Delivers Unmatched Data Protection in Software Erasure codes protect every file individually No hardware RAID, no block-level rebuilds Limits rebuilds to affected files, not entire drives RAID 6+ with triple parity protection: 150x improvement over dual parity Guards against two simultaneous drive failures and single sector errors on multiple drives Only ~25% capacity overhead and minimal performance impact vs. RAID 5+ RAID rebuild performance scales linearly Mitigates risk from additional components at scale Randomized distribution of data means increased reliability at scale Odds of one-too-many drive failures affecting data decrease with scale COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 19

20 UNMATCHED DISASTER RECOVERY Fast Time to Restore Restore specific files instead of entire file system Made possible by extra protection of namespace (directory data) in RAID 6+ Percentage of Files to Restore Approaches Zero with Scale With RAID 6+ (66% small files), a triple simultaneous disk failure means: 1 in ~200,000 files to restore 1 in ~200,000,000 files to restore Scaling by 10x increases reliability by 1000x! COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 20

21 REVOLUTIONARY AVAILABILITY MODEL Extended File System Availability (EFSA) Ensures Business Continuity File system remains available when other systems would be down (even after one-too-many drive failures) Directory structure stays navigable and all unaffected files can be accessed normally Only a small number of affected files will be unavailable until restored from backup Replaces All Up/All Down Model of the Past Targets an always on architecture COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 21

22 SUMMARY Normally Selecting Scale-out Storage Requires a Compromise Other HPC file systems deliver performance but compromise ease of management and compromise reliability and availability Other Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but compromise performance Panasas ActiveStor Delivers a No-Compromise Solution Linearly scalable, multi-protocol performance Easy to deploy, manage, and use Unsurpassed data protection, availability, and disaster recovery COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 22

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25 ACTIVESTOR BLADE ARCHITECTURE Director Blade Storage Blade ActiveStor Appliance CPU, cache, network Orchestrates system activity Metadata services CPU, cache, data storage Enables parallel reads/writes Advanced caching algorithms Full Rack Switch Module 1.2PB & 15GB/s per 40U rack Up to 122.4TB per 4U chassis Scalable to over 12 petabytes Up to 1.5GB/s per chassis Easy to install, easy to manage Low Total Cost of Ownership 10GbE networking InfiniBand Router 2 option for IB connectivity COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 25

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