Velocity • Durability

Modern Data Storage Infrastructure

Velocity meets durability.

VDURA delivers modern data storage infrastructure software built for AI and HPC with flash speed, linear performance scalability, hyperscale durability, and effortless operations in one software-defined platform that keeps GPU clusters saturated and data protected without compromise.

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Proven Heritage

20+ Years

Built upon the proven foundation of the PanFS parallel file system.

Global Footprint

1000s

Deployed across research labs, enterprises, national programs, and service providers.

Effortless Scale

6 → 1500+ Nodes

Linear scalability in performance, availability, and durability.

Three pillars of the VDURA Data Platform

VDURA blends supercomputer-class throughput, cloud-scale economics, and effortless operations into one software-defined plane. Dive deeper on the Data Platform page, but start with the highlights here.

Flash-first parallel speed

True parallel file system and NVMe-first architecture keep GPUs saturated while policy automation keeps data in the right tier.

Cloud-scale economics

Shared nothing, software defined architecture enables the use of commodity hardware servers, devices, and networking. Delivering up to a 60% lower TCO with hardware flexibility and elastic expansion.

Operational simplicity

Deploy in a day, expand in minutes, and rely on self-healing automation plus non-disruptive updates for always-on availability.

Heritage Reinvented

Trusted performance,
engineered for the AI era

VDURA draws from decades of parallel file system leadership to deliver a new class of modern data storage infrastructure. We carried forward the strength of PanFS®, then rebuilt the platform with microservices, automation, and AI-driven observability so you can scale without compromise.
2001

Panasas introduces the first true parallel file system, defining the gold standard for mixed-workload performance.

2010s

Global labs, national agencies, and Fortune 500 innovators scale PanFS® to petabytes with uncompromising reliability.

2024

VDURA reimagines the architecture for AI-native, cloud-integrated data estates with microservices and automation.

Today

Modern data storage infrastructure that powers AI pipelines, digital twins, and HPC clusters with velocity and durability.

World-Class Platform

VDURA is the world’s most powerful data storage infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads

Infinitely scalable performance & capacity

Flash-first parallel file system keeps GPUs saturated while intelligent tiering unifies hot and cold data. Scale linearly from pilot to production without redesigning your architecture.

Adaptable integration & flexible configurations

Deploy on-premises or in hybrid clouds with open hardware. Choose all-flash or flash + HDD expansion while maintaining a single namespace and consistent performance.

Fortified storage foundation

Built on proven PanFS® resiliency with erasure coding, VPOD layout, and intelligent recovery to protect mission-critical workloads and minimize risk.

Cost-effective & effortless operations

Automate lifecycle management, reduce total cost of ownership, and simplify day-2 operations with guided analytics, self-healing workflows, and non-disruptive upgrades.

Built for Zero-Compromise Data

VDURA is where velocity meets durability

The VDURA Data Platform combines a true parallel file system with a resilient object store under one control plane. The VeLO™ metadata engine orchestrates lightning-fast namespace operations, ensuring that data is always protected, observed, and delivered at full speed.

Unified performance tiers

All-flash throughput with cost-efficient object storage in a single, software-defined fabric.

End-to-end observability

Continuous insight into client behavior, metadata, and data paths with guided remediation.

Designed for AI pipelines

Serve training, inference, and simulation workloads concurrently without performance drift.

Control Plane

Director Nodes

The brain of the VDURA architecture, orchestrating every stage of the AI and HPC pipeline with intelligent precision. Powered by the VeLO metadata engine, they ensure seamless performance, resilience, and automated recovery across the entire system.

Data Plane

Storage Nodes

The backbone of VDURA’s data plane, built for seamless scale and consistent performance across every workload. Combining flash and hybrid capacity tiers in a single global namespace, they deliver the speed, efficiency, and durability needed for large-scale data operations.

Data Access

DirectFlow Clients

Enables direct, parallel access from compute nodes to VDURA Storage Nodes, removing bottlenecks found in legacy network file systems. Fully POSIX-compliant and integrated, they deliver high-speed, cache-coherent performance across AI, ML, and HPC environments.

AI Data Pipeline

Modern storage for the AI era

VDURA removes pipeline stalls with a shared-nothing, parallel file system that feeds GPUs from NVMe flash while archive and retention data live on cost-efficient tiers inside one namespace.

AI and HPC factories demand precise throughput for ingest, training, fine-tuning, and inference. Legacy designs bolt together point solutions that slow writes, overload metadata services, and break the namespace.

Common challenges in the AI pipeline

Performance engineered for scale

Flash throughput and metadata acceleration eliminate pipeline chokepoints while automation keeps data tiered without hands-on tuning.

> 2 TB/s

Per-rack flash throughput keeps high-resolution GPU pods fully saturated.

100Ms IOPS

VeLO™ metadata acceleration fuels rapid checkpoints and inference fan-out.

Condensed performance footprint

VDURA far exceeds NVIDIA & AMD enhanced specs with just 3 flash nodes for 256 GPUs and 9 flash nodes for 1,024 GPUs.

Go deeper with VDURA architecture

Dive into the VDURA Data Platform v11 technical guidance and the industry’s first scalable GPU reference architecture featuring AMD Instinct™ accelerators.

Outcomes Delivered

Built for the world’s most
demanding data enterprises

AI Factories

Feed GPU clusters without bottlenecks

Stream training data at flash speed, maintain multi-tenant isolation,and keep inference targets synchronized in real time.

Life Sciences

Accelerate discovery with resilient storage

Support genomics, imaging, and bioinformatics pipelines with end-to-end data integrity and regulated access controls.

Public Sector

Operate at mission scale

Deliver secure, compliant performance for national labs and agencies managing exascale data estates.

Manufacturing & Design

Power digital twins and simulation

Unify active design workloads and archival data with intelligent tiering and reliable collaboration.

Energy

Maximize insight across energy estates

Fuse exploration, production, and grid telemetry into a single data fabric to accelerate analysis and automation.

Academic

Advance discovery with unified data

Enable researchers and students to collaborate securely with scalable storage for instruments and institutional archives.

Resources

Insights to power your data
strategy

Explore the latest thinking on AI data pipelines, modern storage architectures, and operational best practices from the team behind VDURA.

NEWSROOM

VDURA in the headlines

Catch up on the latest announcements, partnerships, and media coverage about VDURA.

Blog

Insights from the VDURA team

Explore deep dives on data infrastructure, AI pipelines, and operational best practices.

SUCCESS STORIES

Customer outcomes with VDURA

See how leading organizations build resilient, high-performance data estates.

Customer Proof

Trusted by global enterprise
giants and research pioneers

Organizations powering national security, life sciences breakthroughs, and digital engineering rely on VDURA to unify velocity and durability across their data estates.

Global Adoption

Case Study

Raytheon Technologies

"The solution is just rock solid. We haven’t had to think about the storage in over a year. VDURA lets us share the data across both HPC and AI/ML environments-exactly what we need.”

Fernando Seguro, Raytheon Technologies (RTX)

Research Spotlight

Goethe University Frankfurt

"After a thorough evaluation, we selected VDURA’s Data Platform and V5000 for its superior price/performance and durability. VDURA’s hybrid architecture delivered the ideal balance and was the perfect choice.”

Professor Volker Lindenstruth, Goethe University Frankfurt

Innovation Story

The Hormel Institute

“VDURA has been well-known for its reliability and ease of use. The integrated platform gives us the speed, scale, and durability required to not just meet but exceed our goals.”

Jeffrey McDonald, PhD, Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota

Ready to build the next era of data infrastructure?

Engage with VDURA architects to design a roadmap that unlocks AI-scale performance and durability.