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VDURA Solutions for the Public Sector

VDURA delivers high-performance, intelligent data storage and management for the most demanding public sector workloads—from AI/ML model training and climate modeling to defense analytics and healthcare imaging. In partnership with Carahsoft, VDURA empowers Federal and SLED organizations to deploy flexible, appliance-based infrastructure with simplicity, resilience, and uncompromising speed.

The VDURA Data Platform: Performance Meets Durability

VDURA, in collaboration with Carahsoft, delivers high-performance, intelligent data storage and management solutions tailored for the most demanding public sector workloads—from AI/ML model training and climate modeling to defense analytics and healthcare imaging. The V5000 appliance, powered by the VDURA V11 Data Platform, offers a scalable, resilient, and efficient infrastructure that meets the unique needs of federal and SLED organizations.

Key features of the VDURA V5000 Data Platform include:

  • Microservices-Based Architecture
  • All-NVMe flash appliance or Hybrid Architecture provides Flexibility and Scalability
  • VeLO (Velocity Layered Operations)
  • VPOD (Virtualized Protected Object Device)
  • Advanced Data Management and Placement
  • High-Speed Access Protocols
  • Seamless Scalability
  • No downtime adding capacity and performance
  • Interconnect Flexibility

Appliance Portfolio

  • VDURA V5000 – The V5000 is a scalable, high performance storage system that leverages a “flash forward” design. A deep HDD element gives the system capacity options suitable for a wide range of workloads. The combination of flash and HDD storage offers compelling performance at an unbeatable price
    • With a flash-optimized parallel file system, unified global namespace, and clean control/data plane separation, the V5000 simplifies large-scale data operations—keeping performance predictable and management effortless.
    • Now available with Native InfiniBand
  • ActiveStor Ultra 150 - available at performance or capacity configuration
    • The ActiveStor Ultra 150 (ASU-150) is a VDURA® certified hybrid mixed-workload storage appliance. Built on industry-standard hardware, the ASU-150 is designed for balanced architecture with mixed media storage, available in sets of four nodes per enclosure. Powered by PanFS®, the VDURA parallel file system, ASU-150 can deliver hundreds of gigabytes per second from a single namespace. Together with ActiveStor® director nodes and the DirectFlow® driver, PanFS provides parallel and redundant access to ASU-150 storage nodes, ensuring highest performance, unlimited scalability, enterprise reliability, and ease of management.
  • ActiveStor Ultra 150
    • The ActiveStor Ultra 150 (ASU-150) is a VDURA® certified hybrid mixed-workload storage appliance. Built on industry-standard hardware, the ASU-150 is designed for balanced architecture with mixed media storage, available in sets of four nodes per enclosure. Powered by PanFS®, the VDURA parallel file system, ASU-150 can deliver hundreds of gigabytes per second from a single namespace. Together with ActiveStor® director nodes and the DirectFlow® driver, PanFS provides parallel and redundant access to ASU-150 storage nodes, ensuring highest performance, unlimited scalability, enterprise reliability, and ease of management.
  • ActiveStor Ultra 150 (Performance)
    • The ActiveStor Ultra 150 (ASU-150P), combined with high-performance dual actuator HDDs, offers the highest throughput performance among VDURA® certified storage appliances. Like the ASU-150, it is built on industry-standard hardware with a focus on mixed media storage, available in sets of four nodes per enclosure. Powered by PanFS®, ASU-150P can also deliver hundreds of gigabytes per second from a single namespace. With ActiveStor® director nodes and the DirectFlow® driver, PanFS ensures parallel and redundant access to ASU-150P storage nodes, providing maximum throughput performance, unlimited scalability, enterprise reliability, and ease of management.
  • ActiveStor Ultra XL V2
    • The ActiveStor® Ultra XL V2 (ASU-150X) is a VDURA® certified high-capacity hybrid mixed-workload storage appliance. Built on industry-standard hardware, it emphasizes mixed-media and high-density storage for a low price per terabyte, ensuring cost-efficiency without compromising performance.
  • ActiveStor Ultra Edge
    • The ActiveStor® Ultra Edge 100 (ASU-100E) is a VDURA® certified storage appliance designed for compact primary and remote data centers, as well as hub-and-spoke edge deployments. It delivers parallel file system performance in a small footprint and at a low-cost entry point, providing flexibility and efficiency for edge computing needs.
  • ActiveStor Ultra Director
    • The ActiveStor® Director 200 (ASD-200) is the VDURA® director node, acting as the control plane for the PanFS parallel filesystem. Built on industry-standard hardware, the ASD-200 features a balanced architecture that supports independent scaling to meet the needs of metadata-intensive applications across various industries, including manufacturing, life sciences, energy, financial services, academia, and government. Pairing ASD-200 with ActiveStor Ultra 150 and XL V2 allows for performance scaling based on specific requirements.
  • ActiveStor Infiniband Router 500
    • The ActiveStor® InfiniBand Router (ASR-500) provides seamless connectivity between InfiniBand-based compute clusters and Ethernet-based VDURA ActiveStor Ultra storage solutions. Certified ASR-500 Nodes feature both Ethernet and InfiniBand network interfaces, configured to route IP traffic between the two. The ASR-500 Enclosure can accommodate up to four ASR-500 Nodes, offering a cost-effective, high-performance, and low-latency InfiniBand fabric connectivity solution for your Panasas ActiveStor storage solutions.