Storage Management
The SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager works with compliant SGI InfiniteStorage products to provide a single, unified storage management interface featuring automated storage asset discovery and configuration guidance for fast and easy initial deployment and future storage capacity expansion. Granular resolution guidance and storage utilization tools help reduce manageability costs and maximize storage efficiencies.
Filesystems
SGI® InfiniteStorage Filesystems allow you to transparently share data everywhere without replication. SGI filesystems are architected to scale to 18 Million Terabytes - providing plenty of room for growth regardless of your current or future requirements
SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS™
Provides instant data access and sharing among systems on a Storage Area Network without network mounts or copies. By eliminating network data overhead, latencies and copies, CXFS enables the typical data-intensive workflow to complete 20 to 80% faster, while reducing the administration overhead, speeding backups and reducing disk needed.
SGI® InfiniteStorage Filesystem XFS®
The filesystem for SGI systems, from desktop workstations to supercomputers. XFS provides full 64-bit file capabilities that scale easily to handle extremely large files and filesystems that grow to exabytes.
Data Lifecycle Management
SGI has been solving the toughest data lifecycle management (DLM) problems in the worlds' most demanding environments for over a decade. SGI InfiniteStorage DLM solutions
- Lower TCO by automating your data lifecycle management policies for reduced administration overhead and cost of storage capacity
- Raise productivity for real ROI by keeping data 'live' and available to users, applications and administrators without having to restore from archive
- Manage risk with highly differentiated data protection features
- Provide investment protection because they scale in performance, capacity and connectivity to meet requirements today and into the foreseeable future
Backup and Restore Solutions
To meet your backup and restore needs, SGI offers you a choice of three industry-leading backup applications: Legato NetWorker®, VERITAS NetBackup®, and ATEMPO® TIMEnavigator™. These applications take full advantage of the outstanding I/O capabilities of SGI servers and storage systems to achieve record-breaking backup throughput.
SGI SAN Management and Storage Resource Management Solutions
To help you reduce the operational costs of managing your SGI InfiniteStorage solutions, as well as your heterogeneous SAN, NAS, and DAS resources, and to improve the performance, availability and utilization of your SAN-hosted applications, SGI offers the industry's leading storage area management solutions through an alliance with AppIQ.
High Availability
Failsafe®, SGI InfiniteStorage High-Availability Clustering software, is the high-availability solution for your mission-critical services. FailSafe automatically fails over applications and services from one system to another. In combination with a RAID or mirrored-disk configuration or tape subsystem, a FailSafe cluster provides resilience from any single point of failure and acting as insurance against unplanned outages and a useful administration tool for planned downtime.
