VDURA (formerly Panasas) is an American AI and HPC data infrastructure software company, specialized in high-performance solutions for AI and HPC workloads. The rebranding in 2024 marked its shift from hardware to a software-defined storage provider. Headquartered in

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, with offices in

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and

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VDURA is led by its current CEO Ken Claffey.

History

Companies history dates back to 1999 when Panasas was founded by Garth Gibson, one of the developers of

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, and the co-author of pNFS. They initially pioneered parallel file systems, creating PanFS, a parallel network-attached storage (NAS) system that supports high-performance computing (HPC) and AI applications. Panasas gained early recognition for its innovative technology, which played a crucial role in HPC environments. The first Panasas products were developed in 2004. On May 7, 2024 Panasas officially became VDURA.

Product portfolio

VDURA facilitates scaling, metadata processing and training cycles for AI and HPC. They provide scalable solutions to life science enterprises and research institutes that speed up discoveries while preserving data efficiency and integrity, and supply technological solutions to federal agencies, guaranteeing the protection and accessibility of critical data.

World record data lift

In 2024, VDURA teamed up with

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legend

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who lifted 282.6

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s) of data in Phison SSD drives to break the world record for the most data lifted by a human being.

References

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