As a complete archiver, ArcFiniti is a fully realized solution that brings to the general IT market an easy-to-deploy package featuring SGI's powerful suite of hardware and software tools, which power some of the world's largest archives.
With ArcFiniti you have a revolutionary alternative to both costly disk-based solutions and economical but slower, less reliable tape solutions. ArcFiniti gives you the best of both worlds — the reliability, easy management, and quick data access of disk — all at a fraction of the cost of transactional storage. Plus you get all the advantages of unprecedented reliability, scalability, efficiency and low power and cooling consumption.
Features & Benefits
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Fully Integrated |
- ArcFiniti is an all-in solution with everything needed to begin implementing a content preservation strategy.
- Many archives are a combination of parts that require a lot of on-site integration or IT intervention to effectively operate. ArcFiniti is purpose built for archiving with minimal set-up required.
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Easy to Use |
- Archiving that is difficult to use will not be used effectively. ArcFiniti is designed so that all files are visible to users via through high-performance network connections. ArcFiniti transparently manages the integrity of the files, the placement in the correct tier and availability. The users just access it like a conventional array.
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Scalable Configurations for Maximum Density and Flexibility |
- Archives may start small, but inevitably will grow. ArcFiniti has 5 different configurations ranging from 154TB to 1.4PB (uncompressed) usable space in a single rack to enable growth in capacity and in network throughput. See the configurations tab for more detail.
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Affordable Disk-based Solution that Offers Accessibility and Data Integrity Advantages Over Tape |
- While tape is great for some types of data storage, for long-term preservation and immediate access an affordable disk-based solution offers the greatest flexibility. ArcFiniti is designed to provide a low-cost option to tape without the risks.
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High-performance NFS and CIFS Access Enables Easy Consolidation of Archives Across Multiple Application and Compute Environments |
- Multiple Gigabit Ethernet and 10Gigabit Ethernet ports in each of the 5 different ArcFiniti models enables high-volume throughput and maximum flexibility. ArcFiniti CIFS support is based on the popular open source product, Samba from samba.org.
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Automated, Policy-based Tier Virtualization to Minimize Storage Costs. |
- Each ArcFiniti model contains a Primary Cache of high-speed disk as well as an Archive Tier for long-term retention.
- All files are visible as on-line and available at all times. ArcFiniti manages the migration and data integrity checks to ensure that data is stored in the right tier for maximum protection and cost savings.
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Pro-active Data Protection |
- ArcFiniti uses SGI's patented DiskAerobics software to continually monitor the health of the disk sub-systems and the integrity of all data stored there. This means that whether data is parked in ArcFiniti for a few weeks or many years, it is always available and protected.
- By pro-actively monitoring disk health, problems are detected before they can cause data loss, providing online data protection while virtually eliminating risky and time-consuming RAID rebuilds.
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Extremely Low Power Consumption Combined with High Density to Reduce Operational Impact. |
- Unlike conventional arrays that consume energy to enable online access, the Archive Tier of ArcFiniti is able to power down while still providing online visibility to all files in the archive.
- This dramatically decreases the operational cost of maintaining an archive, while also increasing the lifespan of the drive systems. Combined with pro-active data protection, this makes ArcFiniti the best solution for very long term data retention.
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