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Silicon Graphics International
Corp. SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding technology challenges by delivering high performance computing, server, storage, data center and cloud computing solutions and professional services. The company develops, markets and sells a broad line of low-cost, mid-range and high-end scale-out and scale-up servers and data storage solutions, as well as differentiating software. SGI sells infrastructure products designed-to-order for large-scale data centre deployments. In addition, it provides global customer support and professional services related to its products. SGI enables enterprises to meet their computing and storage requirements at a lower total cost of ownership and provides them greater deployment flexibility and scalability. SGI products and services are used by the scientific, technical and business communities to solve challenging data-
 intensive computing, data management and visualization problems. These technical computing applications typically require large amounts of compute power along with fast and efficient data movement both within the computing system and to and from large-scale data storage installations. SGI systems access, analyze, transform, manage, visualize and store very large amounts of data in real or near real time. Solutions Designed for Data-Intensive Environments
Archive Solutions
 The World's Easiest Scalable Archiver
ArcFiniti brings for the first time the best of SGI's powerful data management hardware and software tools together in a fully-integrated archive solution aimed specifically at providing a scalable, easily accessible solution to the problem of unparalleled growth of unstructured file-based data. The lack of an easily manageable long-term archive solution has caused growing difficulties in data centers of every industry, as expensive active storage is increasingly filled with inactive data. The resulting pressure on backup and DR, as well as the sheer cost of using active storage for inactive, yet still valuable data is the sweet spot that ArcFiniti is ideal for.
Active Archiving with Low Cost and Long-term Protection as Priorities
ArcFiniti provides high-performance network access with a disk-based archive solution that offers performance, accessibility and long-term data integrity advantages over tape. Leveraging patented SGI technology to significantly reduce power consumption and ensure data integrity, ArcFiniti can be ordered in 5 different factory-integrated configurations, ranging from 154 TB to 1.4 PB of usable storage in a single rack before compression. This results in significant infrastructure savings over conventional archive systems, while also enabling easy, immediate access to archived data to users.
ArcFiniti is designed not only to house archived data, but to protect it for very long term retention. Employing patented software to proactively monitor the health of the hardware and the integrity of the data, ArcFiniti ensures that archive data is still valid and accessible many years later. If ArcFiniti detects any problems due to mechanical problems, it proactively migrates data and verifies data integrity while alerting administrators to replace the faulty part. This dramatically reduces the need to take the system offline for costly RAID rebuilds due to disk errors.
Virtualized Tiers for Better Performance and Control
As a fully-integrated solution, ArcFiniti is designed to be easy to deploy and easy to use. Users can access ArcFiniti via high-performance network connections for high-volume throughput into its primary disk cache. This cache is virtualized to the archive tier and managed in the background by an automated archive policy engine. All files are always in an available online state to users, with ArcFiniti ensuring that archive content is protected for long-term retention in the most cost-effective storage tier.
ArcFiniti: Infinite archiving for the information that is your business...
Storage Management Solutions
 LiveArc — Digital Asset Management Suite
LiveArc is an application environment for managing all types of digital assets in with complete flexibility and extreme scalability, ranging from single user environments to widely distributed remote collaborations. LiveArc enables the concept of a true ‘living archive’ for all digital content in virtually any workflow. Built on an extensible services-oriented architecture, LiveArc provides a multi-versioned asset management and revision control system with workflow and web serving in a single package. Not only does this simplify operation and administration, this flexibility enables LiveArc to support the integration of legacy applications and metadata types, and to easily evolve as workflow requirements grow. DMF — Tier Virtualization
DMF creates and automatically manages a tiered virtual storage environment that can significantly reduce equipment and operating costs, improve service levels and lower risks. Based on user criteria DMF continuously monitors and automatically migrates data among storage assets with different cost and performance characteristics. Data always appears to be online to end users and applications regardless of its actual storage location. XFS — Filesystem
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. CXFS — Shared Filesystem
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. XVM — Volume Management
SGI® InfiniteStorage Volume Manager XVM® volume management is integrated in SGI InfiniteStorage Filesystem XFS. The XFS file system integrates volume management, the guaranteed rate I/O, and journaling technology for fast, reliable recovery. File systems can be backed up while still in use, significantly reducing administrative overhead. File Serving
 Scalable Investment Protection
Each shared-storage platform efficiently scales in storage capacity, file directory size, and performance by providing base platform options that can support the exponential data growth for today's business and digital media application workload. High-Performance and High-Value Solutions
SGI's fast and efficient file system provides highly scalable performance for a wide range of applications from small workgroups to demanding enterprise and vertical market requirements. SGI file serving solution scale capacity and performance independently – allowing customers to optimize their environment to their specific workflow. With low cost solutions for NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI protocols as well as a choice of interfaces – Ethernet, InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet – and powerful monitoring tools, SGI delivers a cutting edge file serving solution with low overhead. Servers
Clustered and High Performance Computing  Rackable™ Standard-Depth Servers: 2100 Series
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