SGI© InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS Applications

The SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions provide efficient shared-storage platforms for a broad range of applications including:

  • High-performance computing (HPC) - Seismic research, satellite imagery, medical imagery, and complex engineering design work
  • Online viewing of content - Large file systems with hundreds of terabytes and potentially petabytes of storage
  • Near-line or archival storage - Static or persistent data resources that rarely change and are accessed infrequently
  • Departmental storage consolidation - Pools of highly available and centrally managed storage that can be distributed to improve performance and availability

InfiniteStorage NEXIS Hardware Platforms

InfiniteStorage NEXIS Family Description Applications
9000 The ultimate platform for consolidation of shared data assets
  • Digital Media Servers
7000 H/A SGI's best NAS performance and availability for mixed application workloads
  • Database transactions
  • Data mining
  • Media rich on-line social networks
7000 High performance without redundant data path failover for dedicated workloads
  • Media Production
  • Oil & Gas
  • Science and engineering modeling
  • Business intelligence/OLAP
5000 High storage capacity, moderate performance for large file sequential workloads and online archive
  • Disk backup
  • Corporate archiving
  • e-discovery
  • Online research library
  • Audio/video & graphic object repository
  • Compliance archive
2000 SAS Entry-level performance and storage capacity
  • Media
  • Education
  • Scientific workgroup storage consolidation and file sharing
2000 SATA Entry-level storage capacity
  • Small on-line archives
  • Disk to tape backup
  • Moderate-performance, large-file, sequential workloads
1000 Gateway NAS connectivity to existing SGI CXFS- and XFS-compliant storage
  • Small on-line archives
  • Disk to tape backup
  • Moderate-performance, large-file, sequential workloads
500 Integrated NAS server and storage in a single 2U chassis
  • Small workgroup file sharing
  • Dedicated scratch file storage
  • Workstation storage expansion

InfiniteStorage NEXIS Overview