Panasas Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio

"Panasas Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio,
　Company Continues to Demonstrate Object Storage Technology Leadership
with Award of a New Patent", January 30, 2007
　http://www.panasas.com/press_release_013007.html
　"The Panasas ActiveScale parallel file system, PanFS, is a sophisticated, failover-duplexed and
　 journaled file system designed to recover from even the most catastrophic failure modes.
　 Traditional journaled file system checking methods, used by most other file systems, do not scale
　 to meet the massive capacity and performance requirements in today’s demanding high performance
　 data centers."

United States Patent 7155464
Title: Recovering and checking large file systems in an object-based data storage system
Filing Date: 2003-01-22
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
Assignee: Panasas, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA)
BACKGROUND
1. Field of the Invention
　"The present invention generally relates to data storage systems and methods, and, more particularly,
　 to a method for checking and recovering large file systems in a distributed object-based data storage system."


利用者からすれば、こっちの方が関心があったりして：
"Panasas Launches Next Generation ActiveScale Operating Environment,
　ActiveScale 3.0 Brings 3X Higher Performance and Predictive Self-Management Capabilities to
　New Panasas ActiveStor Storage Clusters", November 6, 2006
　http://www.panasas.com/press_release_110606b.html

パフォーマンス向上もありますが、管理系の拡張がうれしいです：
　ActiveScan
　ActiveUpgrade
　Predictive disk management
　Parallel reconstruction
　Real-time monitoring of client load generation

ActiveScale Operating Environment
　http://www.panasas.com/activescale.html
ActiveScale Operating Environment : Predictive Self-Management
　http://www.panasas.com/predictive_selfmgmt.html
ActiveScale Operating Environment : High Availability Solutions
　http://www.panasas.com/highavailability.html
ActiveScale Operating Environment : PanActive Manager
　http://www.panasas.com/panactivemgr.html


MSST2006: 14th NASA Goddard, 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies,
　May 15-18, 2006
　http://storageconference.org/2006/
Papers and Presentations
　http://romulus.gsfc.nasa.gov/msst/conf2006/index.html
　Tutorials:
　"Object-based Cluster Storage Systems", David Nagle, Panasas
　　http://romulus.gsfc.nasa.gov/msst/conf2006/Presentations/panasas.dnagle.pdf
　　104 Pages

Fall 2006 SNIA Technical Tutorials
　http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/
"Object-based Storage Device (OSD) - Architecture and Systems",
　Erik Riedel, Seagate Technology.
　　http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/2006/fall/storage/Object-based_Storage.pdf


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Lustre-discuss: パフォーマンス関係スレッドメモ, 2007-02-18
Intel OSD/iSCSI Reference Implementation, July25 06, 2006-08-20
IBM Object Storage Device Simulator for Linux, 2006-02-24