FREMONT, CA, Jun 02 (MARKET WIRE) —
Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance scale-out NAS
solutions, announced that Garth Gibson, co-founder and chief technology
officer, has won IDG’s InfoWorld CTO 25 Award. The InfoWorld CTO 25
Awards honor senior IT executives who have demonstrated leadership within
their companies and in the IT community. Gibson has been instrumental in
the instigation, incubation and adoption of Parallel NFS (pNFS) into
version 4.1 of NFS, an IETF industry standard for file sharing.
“Chief technology officers are often the unsung heroes of IT. This year’s
InfoWorld CTO 25 Award winners combined management savvy, technological
insight, and the ability to lead a team to success despite difficult
circumstances,” said Galen Gruman, executive editor/news and features,
InfoWorld. “This year’s honorees reinvented untenable legacies, provided
game-changing insight, and managed both their own teams and key
organization stakeholders to make their businesses succeed through the
use of technology. Our honorees did much more than implement technology
well; they brought its use to a new level.”
“Since the beginning, Panasas storage systems have been designed to
enable client machines to access data in parallel, independent of a
central server, to drive faster performance,” said Garth Gibson, CTO of
Panasas. “It is an honor to be recognized by InfoWorld. We believe the
adoption of pNFS into the standards track will be of tremendous benefit
across the industry, enabling scalable storage systems to meet the
capacity and performance scaling requirements of high-end computing
systems.”
About pNFS
NFS v4.1 was offered to the IETF by the Network File System
Working Group in late 2008 and was approved in January 2010. NFS v4.1
introduces into the NFS standard mechanisms for enabling a cluster of
servers to satisfy client data requests in parallel. Known as Parallel
NFS, or pNFS, parallel access enables an NFS service to scale single
system performance to meet the needs of large collections of
high-performance clients. Getting pNFS in the NFS standard has been a
lengthy process involving a community of storage technology leaders,
including Panasas, IBM, EMC, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, and University of
Michigan’s Center for Information Technology Integration. Many
organizations are working hard to achieve a pNFS implementation that
meets the high standards of the Linux distribution process, and are
expecting to attain this goal in 2011.
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high-performance scale-out
NAS 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(TM)
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. For more information, visit
www.panasas.com.
Panasas, the Panasas logo, and PanFS are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
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