SGI Introduces SGI NAS, A Scalable Modular Open Storage Solution

SGI, the technical computing solutions provider, has introduced SGI NAS, an enterprise-class open storage solution that delivers flexibility to IT managers who continue to cope with the challenges of inexorable data growth. As a fully integrated solution for the SGI Modular InfiniteStorage product family, SGI NAS provides organisations 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 datacentre 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 an efficient addition to the SGI InfiniteStorage ecosystem.

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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-optimised system.

“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, Field Operations, 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,” he added.

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 data is available where and when it is needed.