Panasas, Inc., the leader in high-performance storage solutions, enables enterprise customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. All Panasas solutions leverage the patented PanFS™ storage operating system to deliver exceptional performance, scalability and manageability. Panasas systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the energy, government, finance, manufacturing, bioscience and higher education industries.

1. Corporate Overview
B AC KG R O U N D Panasas is the premier provider of high performance parallel storage solutions for
business-critical applications and big data workloads. All Panasas scale-out storage
appliances leverage the Panasas ® PanFS™ parallel file system to deliver superior
performance, data protection, scalability, and manageability.
Panasas introduced initial parallel storage products based on its first generation blade
architecture in 2004. Now in its fourth generation, Panasas ® ActiveStor™ is optimized
for highly demanding HPC storage applications in the bioscience, energy, government,
finance, manufacturing, and other core research and development sectors.
Panasas is privately held.
P R O D U CTS Optimized for parallel NFS (pNFS) throughput, ActiveStor scale-out storage appliances
scale via a modular, buy-as-you grow blade architecture based on industry standard disk
storage and deliver unrivaled performance per gigabyte. This superior product design
provides effortless capacity expansion to six petabytes (PB) and linear performance
scaling to 150 gigabytes (GB) per second—the industry’s highest single file system
throughput per terabyte of enterprise SATA storage.
M A N AG E M E NT Faye Pairman President and Chief Executive Officer
Garth Gibson Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Barbara Murphy Chief Marketing Officer
Stephanie Vinella Chief Financial Officer
Bill Ribera Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Celeste Baranski Senior Vice President of Engineering
Toya Rico Vice President of Human Resources
M E D IA C O N TACTS North America Europe
James McIntyre Zoe Mitchell
McClenahan Bruer Communications Napier Partnership Limited
503.546.1000 +44 1243 531123
panasas@mcbru.com panasas@napier.co.uk
H E A D Q UA R TE R S Panasas, Inc.
969 W. Maude Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
408.215.6800
info@panasas.com
06062011 1073
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