Panasas high-performance scale-out NAS storage solutions enable 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 PAS 7, 8, 9 and PAS HC systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the energy, government, finance, manufacturing, bioscience, and higher education industries.

1. Panasas Storage SolutionsJuly 2010

2. Growth in Data Unstructured Data Growth Exploding 2010 Data Growth vs. IT Spending forecast “Unstructured data will be the primary task for storage” Unstructured data (62% CAGR) “Volume of unstructured data in organizations estimated to be as high as 85% of all data” Transactional data (22% CAGR) “Growth of unstructured data a pain for IT” IT spending growth 2% Source: Data growth (IDC), IT spending (Forrester)

3. High Performance Storage Enterprise NAS Technical Enterprise HPC Risk Modeling CFD Simulation Seismic Processing High Energy Physics EDA OPC Visual Effects rendering Genome sequencing Business Applications ERP Finance CRM Email Other mission critical Technical Applications Trading algorithms CAE Design Computing Geo Interpretation Visualization RTL Design Computing Model, texture creation Drug Discovery Genome archives Media multi-format archives SW Development Home directories Operations focus Keep the business running Drive Innovation Increase Revenue

4. Technical Enterprise Applications Different use cases and requirements Common element – Requirement for huge storage capacity

6. Need the right performance for the right problem

7. Need to maximize efficiency and minimize costs Supercomputing HPC Linux Cluster Technical Apps Linux/Windows/Unix High Capacity Store Linux/Windows/Unix High IOPs Random I/O High Throughput Sequential I/O Low $/GB Massive Capacity

9. Solving the most difficult storage problems to drive innovation & revenueTechnical Computing Supercomputing HPC Linux Cluster Technical Apps Linux/Windows/Unix High Capacity Store Linux/Windows/Unix PanFS PAS 7/8 PAS 9 PAS HC High IOPs Random I/O High Throughput Sequential I/O Low $/GB Massive Capacity

11. Computation Chemistry

13. Reservoir Simulation

15. Risk Analysis

17. Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

19. Molecular Dynamics

21. Stockpile Stewardship

23. Developed with/for largest Panasas customersPAS 9 PAS 8 PAS 7 PASHC Optimized for Highest Performance Balanced Performance & Capacity Entry-Level Performance & Capacity High Capacity Archive

25. Scalability

27. New Intel® Nehalem Microarchitecture

28. New 64 bit O/S

29. Faster memory, multi-core tuning

30. 64 Gb/s Fibre Channel backend capacityPerformance Capacity

31. Solutions For Every Workload PAS 7 - Full-Featured, Entry System Balanced Performance Scalability providing up to 44 TB of raw capacity in a compact 4U rack-unit (7”) shelf PAS 8- Excellent Performance and Scalability For highly sequential I/O workloads and large files Supporting a broad range of scientific and technical applications PAS 9 - Blazing Performance Tailored for random I/O workloads and large and small files. Solid state disks (SSD) that accelerates metadata operations Provides extreme levels of throughput for performance-sensitive applications

33. Global namespace

34. Infinite scale

35. Multi-protocol support

36. Parallel and direct access

37. pNFS open source standard

38. High reliability

39. Tiered parity data protection

40. Automatic load balancingHPC Cluster Workstations/PCs Workstations/PCs NFS DirectFLOW CIFS /pNFS PanFS PAS 7/8 PAS 9 PAS HC

41. Scale Capacity AND Performance Global namespace – high performance Multi-petabyte scale Add capacity without disruption Throughput Capacity

43. Match performance to the application

44. Easy to scale and manage300+ blue chip customers in 51 countries Worldwidenetwork of 60+ partners and resellers

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