News in the Channel - Issue #5

NEW IN THE CHANNEL

Specialty knowledge biggest challenge in high-performance storage management: Panasas Survey

Panasas, a data engine for innovation, has released the results of a global survey which shows that over 50% of respondents believe that the biggest challenge in building and managing storage infrastructure for high- performance applications is a lack of specialty knowledge coupled with high resource needs. The independent survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, asked hundreds of IT decision makers within enterprises with more than 1,000 employees in the US, UK and Germany. Survey results show an overwhelming 96% of respondents across the US, UK, and Germany face challenges in building and managing high-performance storage. In addition to over half of respondents (52%) citing specialty knowledge as the top challenge, other key findings include: ● N early 50% of respondents across all three regions cited high maintenance costs and high acquisition costs as premier challenges at 45% and 43% respectively. ● Respondents from IT, tech, and telecom sector selected high maintenance costs as a challenge (44%) compared to high acquisition costs (36%). ● 3 9% of respondents across all regions stated that it is time consuming to juggle multiple storage systems to cater for different high-performance workloads, while 38% find it time consuming to tune the overall infrastructure for each workload. ● US respondents across manufacturing organisations (68%) cited specialty knowledge and high resources needs as the biggest challenge. ● US respondents across financial services

reach $59.2bn by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7%. This growth is further fueled by convergence of HPC with AI/ML and the role these technologies play in helping enterprises gain better insights to support business objectives. However, harnessing the power of HPC and AI/ML comes with new challenges. IT teams must have the tools and the people in place to manage the high-performance storage required to support current applications. As such, organisations must ensure that the storage infrastructure selected is scalable and versatile enough to successfully support future applications at scale. Jeff Whitaker, VP of product strategy and marketing at panasas, said “we know what it takes to successfully manage HPC and AI/ML data storage environments and the critical role these bandwidth-intensive applications play in supporting business growth.” Panasas solutions reduce TCO and address the simplicity, reliability, and scalability challenges in managing high-performance storage infrastructure. The company’s PanFS parallel file system software suite improves data visibility and mobility for high-performance workloads, ensuring optimal performance in the most data- intensive environments. The plug-and-play Panasas storage solution is packaged within trusted hardware components to eliminate the specialty knowledge challenge cited by survey recipients as no training is required.

Jeff Whitaker VP of product strategy and marketing Panasas

of respondents across all regions stated that it is time consuming to juggle multiple storage systems to cater for different high- performance workloads 39%

organisations (53%) cited storage infrastructure to support application

scalability as the most common challenge. ● With high resource needs and specialty knowledge for performance storage configuration and management cited as the biggest challenge across all industries, it was ranked highest among these industries: business and professional services sector (61%) followed by the manufacturing sector (60%) and the IT, tech, and telecoms sector (57%). The high-performance computing (HPC) sector is expected to continue growing at a healthy rate, with HPC budgets expected to

Panasas’ software suite delivers simple, reliable solutions that support multiple HPC and AI/ML applications from a single storage platform. Customers gain the necessary insight into data movement and usage patterns to ensure optimal workload performance across the enterprise and into the high-performance computing world. The company’s storage solutions address the issues highlighted in the survey, with many customers having found success in their implementation of Panasas’ technology.

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