High Performance Storage Solutions

April 2010

Larry JonesVP, Product Marketing

Slide 2 Panasas, Inc.

Panasas Business Update

The momentum continues: Q1 revenue up 46% YoY

Panasas placed in Visionary quadrant by Gartner in High End NAS MQ

Two new product platforms by mid-year

LANL and Sandia choose Panasas for 12PB Cielo system

Revenue Growth – 2009 vs. 2008

-10-12%

+25%

WW Storage Industry

Panasas

Slide 3 Panasas, Inc.

The Market - Scale-Out NAS

Enterprise NAS

Business ApplicationsERP

FinanceCRMEmail

Other mission critical

HPCRisk Modeling

CFD SimulationSeismic ProcessingHigh Energy Physics

EDA OPCVisual Effects rendering

Genome sequencing

Technical ApplicationsTrading algorithm designCAE Design Computing

Geo InterpretationVisualization

RTL Design ComputingModel, texture creation

Drug DiscoveryGenome archives

Media multi-format archivesSW DevelopmentHome directories

Technical Enterprise

Panasas solves the most difficult storage problems with high reliability in an easy to use

appliance-like solution

Slide 4 Panasas, Inc.

Technical Enterprise Storage Problem

High ThroughputSequential I/O

Supercomputing

HPC Linux Cluster

High IOPsRandom I/O

Technical Apps

Linux/Windows/Unix

Low $/GBMassive Archive

Archive

Linux/Windows/Unix

Different applications and users across the workflow Creates storage silos by application and by vendor

Costly and inefficient

Slide 5 Panasas, Inc.

The Technical EnterpriseThe Technical Enterprise

Archive

Linux/Windows/Unix

PanFSPanFS

Panasas Solution

High ThroughputSequential I/O

High IOPsRandom I/OLow $/GB

Massive Archive

Supercomputing

HPC Linux Cluster

Technical Apps

Linux/Windows/Unix

High performance scale-out NAS solutions PanFS Storage Operating System delivers exceptional performance, scalability & manageability

Slide 6 Panasas, Inc.

Panasas Storage Product Line

Highest-EndActiveStor

Mid-RangeActiveStor

Entry LevelActiveStor

7Series

8Series

9Series

Availability / Management

Per

form

ance

/ S

cala

bil

ity

Single File System for Seamless ScalabilitySingle File System for Seamless Scalability

Slide 7 Panasas, Inc.

Performance (IOPs)

Capacity (TB)

US List Price

IsilonIQ5400S

NTAPFAS3160w/PAM

PanasasPAS-9

46,635 60,389 77,137

48 56 80

$494K $490K $500K

The Numbers Tell the Story

More Performance and Capacity for the Same Price

28- 66% 28- 66% Faster Faster

40-67% 40-67% More More

CapacityCapacity

Slide 8 Panasas, Inc.

Introducing PAS HC

Capture and archive massive amounts of data for technical computing applications

Provides the highest levels: Performance

Scalability

Manageability

Multi-Petabyte Scale-Out NAS Solution

Under NDA Until 4/20/10

Slide 9 Panasas, Inc.

PAS HC - Performance w/ High Density Footprint P

erfo

rman

ce

5 GB/s and 1 PB per rack – add racks for performance and/or scalability

New Intel® Nehalem Microarchitecture

New 64 bit O/S

Faster memory, multi-core optimized

64 Gb/s Fibre Channel backend capacity

Capacity

Under NDA Until 4/20/10

Slide 10 Panasas, Inc.

High Density PackagingHigh Density Packaging

120 TB per 4u shelf120 TB per 4u shelf

Up To 960 TB per rackUp To 960 TB per rack

PanFS Storage Operating SystemPanFS Storage Operating System

Global namespaceGlobal namespace

Add capacity without disruptionAdd capacity without disruption

Multi-petabyte scaleMulti-petabyte scale

Massive single storage poolsMassive single storage pools

Unlimited file system sizeUnlimited file system size Up to 12,000 clientsUp to 12,000 clients

PAS HC – Massive ScalabilityUnder NDA Until 4/20/10

Slide 11 Panasas, Inc.

PAS HC - Manageability

Low TCO

Low price/GB/floor tile

Cost efficiency

Add capacity without disruption

High Availability

RAID 6 data protection

Redundant power & cooling

Automatic transparent failover & restoral

Ease of Administration

Single point of management

Self configuring – Installs in 15 minutes

Under NDA Until 4/20/10

Slide 12 Panasas, Inc.

Panasas Product Family

BalancedPerformance& Capacity

PAS 8PAS 8

Optimized for Highest

Performance

PAS 9PAS 9

Entry-LevelPerformance& Capacity

PAS 7PAS 7

Introducing the PAS HC

Developed with/for largest Panasas customers

HighCapacityArchive

PASPAS HCHC

Under NDA Until 4/20/10

Slide 13 Panasas, Inc.

The Panasas Difference

Patented file system

Global namespace

Infinite scale

Multi-protocol support Parallel and direct access

pNFS open source standard

High reliability

Tiered parity data protection

Automatic load balancing

PanFS Storage Operating System

Workstations/PCs Workstations/PCsHPC

Cluster

NFS DirectFLOW CIFSNFS DirectFLOW CIFS/pNFS/pNFS

PanFSPanFS

PAS 7/8PAS 7/8 PAS 9PAS 9PAS HCPAS HC

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