SGI is shipping NAS, an open storage solution. 
 

The company said it is the first fully integrated solution in the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family that can scale to multiple petabytes.

“This storage solution supports advanced enterprise architecture from virtualisation to the complete lifecycle of data -from creation to archive - with a minimum of data centre real estate,” the firm said.

SGI NAS includes VM integration, even in mixed vendor environments, and with the latest Intel Xeon E5 series processors, the system offers infinitely flexible configuration options from terabytes to petabytes of storage 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 include inline de-duplication and native compression, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size, and high-availability support.

“One of the biggest challenges facing any storage customer is rationalising 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.”

 “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, 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.”