In SGI has introduced SGI NAS, an enterprise-class open storage solution that delivers maximum flexibility to IT managers who continue to cope with the challenges of inexorable data growth.
As the first fully integrated solution for the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family, SGI NAS provides organizations with a full-featured platform that can start small and yet scale according to business demands to multiple petabytes of unified storage with a minimum of datacenter real estate.
SGI NAS includes full VM integration, even in mixed vendor environments, and can be expanded to extremely large deployments with multi-node local and remote clusters. With support for multiple NAS and SAN protocols, standard features such as inline de-duplication and native compression, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size, and high-availability support, SGI NAS is a powerful, no-compromise addition to the SGI 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 vice president 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 with powerful NexentaStor software to provide a best-of-breed 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 todays requirements that has no capacity limitations to penalize future expansion.
Customers continually ask for flexible solutions that dont 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, executive vice president 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 of 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.
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