Architecture The Panasas Parallel Storage Cluster represents the next major evolution in networked storage optimized for cluster, server farm, and single client environments. Panasas ActiveStor architecture features aggregate performance by scaling individual nodes in a file system managed by a single global namespace and management interface. Unified Scalability The Panasas ActiveScale File System provides a scalable architecture capable of achieving performance in the 100,000’s of IOPS and 100’s of GB/sec in a single disk systems by simply adding as many individual nodes/shelves, or racks, to achieve aggregate performance. All aggregated nodes/shelves are presented as a single system featuring a global name space providing unified management.