SGI Petascale Storage Offers a 'Green' Alternative for Data-rich and Streaming Media Environments

SGI InfiniteStorage 15000 Packs Performance and Scalability in Space-Efficient, Energy-Smart Package

SUNNYVALE, Calif., (October 22, 2008)—Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled SGI® InfiniteStorage 15000, a new storage platform that pushes beyond existing limitations in access speeds, capacity, footprint and energy efficiency.

Breakthrough innovations from SGI have allowed customers to eliminate bottlenecks even in the most demanding compute and streaming media environments where data sets can swell to Petabytes, and the SGI InfiniteStorage 15000 continues this tradition.

With the SGI InfiniteStorage 15000, IT managers, already under pressure to control costs, can:

• Achieve cost-effective consolidation and powerful data sharing
• Give users and applications universal access to a single, scalable pool of storage
• Accommodate the capacity and speed demands of high-performance computing (HPC), energy, digital content, streaming media, satellite communications/surveillance, and other fields where large data assets are common

"Our history in rich media and HPC has helped us drive storage innovations," said Kurt Kuckein, InfiniteStorage product line manager, SGI. "The SGI InfiniteStorage 15000 another step further in satisfying the most capacity and performance hungry applications, and gives IT managers plenty of choices to match their storage environment to their business requirements."

Performance, Scalability and Intelligent Power Management
SGI InfiniteStorage 15000 storage systems deliver a unique combination of performance and scalability, while enabling organizations to make intelligent use of disks to minimize power and cooling costs.

• Balanced read/write performance of 6 gigabytes/second optimizes data storage and access. A single controller can handle multiple 4K streams of data, with capacity that can scale to 1.2 Petabyes in only two racks.
• Built-in Dynamic Massive Array of Idle Disks (D-MAID) functionality helps control power and cooling costs by spinning down drives that are not in use. The system's sleep mode minimizes re-start time, so performance isn't sacrificed.
• High-performance SAS and cost-effective SATA drives can, for the first time, be combined in dense packaging and assigned based on the performance requirements of the applications.

The SGI InfiniteStorage 15000 is available immediately from SGI and its value-added resellers, and is competitively priced starting at $560,000 U.S. list. For more information visit www.sgi.com/products/storage/.

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