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SGI® InfiniteStorage Solutions

Deploying complete storage solutions can be difficult and time-consuming. Mistakes can be painful and have lasting impacts throughout your organization. For this reason, SGI offers the SGI® InfiniteStorage SAN and SGI® InfiniteStorage NAS solutions--completely integrated storage solutions that combine the best of SGI® InfiniteStorage hardware and software into one easy-to-deploy package that enables you to quickly realize the benefits of advanced storage. SGI InfiniteStorage solutions allow you to:

  • Reduce capital and operational expenditures
  • Reduce the management burden associated with other storage solutions
  • Escape the repetitive, and costly, upgrade cycles associated with the limitations of other solutions

InfiniteStorage NAS Solutions

For those who require high-performance networked storage, a single SGI® InfiniteStorage NAS delivers scalability and performance that other NAS solutions simply can't touch. SGI's InfiniteStorage NAS takes the place of multiple conventional NAS servers, avoiding the complexity and management burden created by proliferating servers.

SGI® InfiniteStorage 220

The InfiniteStorage 220 provides an entry-level RAID array that applies the power of high-performance storage to bring the cost efficiencies of consolidation to organizations of any size. The InfiniteStorage 220 simplifies initial deployment and ongoing management with fully integrated software and a flexible appliance-like design with solutions delivering maximum value for data backup, disaster recovery, and general file storage applications.

SGI® InfiniteStorage NAS 4050

The InfiniteStorage NAS 4050 is a true appliance customers can put into production in a matter of minutes, as opposed to hours, without sacrificing high-performance capabilities. The NAS 4050 is designed to satisfy high capacity requirements, has virtually no file system size restrictions and scales as large as 18 Exabytes. The NAS 4050 use the SGI® Altix® 450 server, storage and file system technologies. Factory integration and easy to use management GUI deliver an outstanding customer experience.

SGI® InfiniteStorage NAS 4550

The InfiniteStorage NAS 4550 was created for customers with demanding storage environments where immediate access to large amounts of data is required. The NAS 4550 is designed for performance-driven applications and is a true appliance customers can put into production in a matter of minutes, as opposed to hours, without sacrificing high-performance capabilities. The NAS 4550 uses the SGI® Altix® 450 server, storage and file system technologies. Factory integration and easy to use management GUI deliver an outstanding customer experience.

InfiniteStorage SAN Solutions

SGI InfiniteStorage SAN Solutions include everything you need to immediately realize the lower cost and higher productivity benefits a SAN can provide. Complete with 4Gb/s SAN infrastructure and the SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS™, SGI® SAN Servers provide instant data sharing - eliminating data access bottlenecks - and provide a single, centralized filesystem to ease administration and access as well as single point of backup.

InfiniteStorage Software Solutions

SGI unique storage software solutions include:

  • CXFS - a clustered file system allows the sharing of data among servers
  • CXFS speeds up workflow and makes data easier to manage
  • DMF - a mature and robust Data Lifecycle Management product
  • DMF allows customers to manage huge amounts of data
  • NFS - a high performance NAS software
  • NFS allows customers to provide access to central data across the enterprise

SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS

The SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is an expanded range of NAS storage products that efficiently scales storage capacity, file directory size and performance, and provides base platform options to support exponential data growth for today's varied business and digital media application workloads.

Complementing the family, the SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager provides a single unified storage management interface for the new range.