SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasas®, the leader in high performance hybrid scale-out network attached storage (NAS) for industry and research, today introduced ActiveStor® 18, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance. ActiveStor 18 increases scalability to more than 20 petabytes (PB) and 200 gigabytes per second (GB/s) by adopting 8 terabyte (TB) drive technology. ActiveStor 18 also offers increased CPU power and twice the storage cache capacity to further accelerate mixed