SGI Modular InfiniteStorage NAS

Silicon Graphics International Corporation announced SGI NAS, a powerful, full-featured enterprise open storage solution that delivers flexibility to IT managers who must master the challenges of inexorable data growth.

As the first fully integrated solution in the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family, it provides organizations with a full-featured platform that can start small and yet scale to multiple petabytes of unified storage according to business demands.

This storage solution supports enterprise architecture from virtualization to the complete lifecycle of data -from creation to archive – with a minimum of datacenter real estate.

SGI NAS includes VM integration, even in mixed vendor environments, and with the Intel Xeon E5 series processors, the system offers flexible configuration options from terabytes to petabytes of storage and can be expanded to large deployments with multi-node local and remote clusters. With support for multiple NAS and SAN protocols, standard features include inline de-duplication and native compression, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size, and HA support. With a browser-based GUI the system is simple to administer from any desktop or tablet, making SGI NAS an addition to the InfiniteStorage ecosystem.

"One of the biggest challenges facing any storage customer is rationalizing the cost and complexity of rapidly expanding data storage requirements," said Steve Conway, IDC research VP for HPC. "SGI’s Modular InfiniteStorage product family is designed to address this problem by merging a modular open storage architecture with advances in density. Products like this have a strong potential for boosting returns on data storage investments."

At the core of SGI NAS is a standards-based open storage architecture that blends the modular flexibility of SGI hardware and software to provide an unified storage solution. This approach enables straight-forward integration into legacy storage environments, and ensures that customer data is not trapped within expensive siloed arrays. The scalability and density of the system enables IT managers to invest in a cost-optimized system based upon today’s requirements that has no capacity limitations to penalize future expansion.

"Customers continually ask for flexible solutions that don’t tie them into one type of storage architecture as they look for ways to better manage continued data expansion across their infrastructures," said Tony Carrozza, EVP of field operations at SGI. "SGI NAS addresses this by ensuring that they can effectively deal with data today, and ensure it will be available anytime and anywhere as their data demands continue to scale."

Data integrity is at the heart the SGI NAS solution, with constant monitoring to proactively identify and prevent silent data corruption. Additional features such as support for real-time failover between active/active clusters in different geographies as well as both synchronous and asynchronous multi-site replication capabilities ensure always data is available where and when it is needed.

SGI NAS is available for preorder from SGI.