Data is the lifeblood of the energy industry, and fast access to current data and retrieval of historical data can accelerate exploration, lead to increased production, and reduce overall project risks. SGI offers a family of high-performance network attached storage (NAS) solutions, storage area networking (SAN) solutions, and file virtualization solutions that offer leadership performance, features and value that maximize team performance and computing efficiency while reducing both capital expenses and operating costs.
| Solution Attributes |
Solution Benefits |
| A full range of high performance storage options |
One stop shop for SAN, NAS, Lustre and Panasas storage solutions. Get what you need instead of what a point solution vendor has to sell. |
| Performance optimized, scalable NAS with NFS/rdma and hardware RAID |
Large file sizes, maximum throughput with multiple simultaneous interconnects, and minimum rebuild times for a full range of NAS configurations |
| Virtual Storage Migration and SAN RAID |
Transparently migrate from low density, slow SAN devices to more performance and cost effective solutions |
| Fully scalable Lustre environments, designed and integrated by SGI |
Leverage the latest RAID technologies and achieve throughput of 1GB/sec to 20GB/sec or more |
| Panasas Parallel Cluster Storage |
High reliability and availability for home directory storage. |
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SGI's Data Migration Facility is a proven hierarchical storage management solution that is managing over 1PB of on-line/near-line data at dozens of sites in different industries around the world. By keeping metadata online and virtualizing the location of the actual data, SGI's integrated, customizable solutions are able to deliver an almost infinite amount of on-line capacity while reducing both capital expenses and operating costs.
| Solution Attributes |
Solution Benefits |
| Based on SGI's proven Data Migration Facility |
Leverage SGI's experience managing multiple PBytes of data at dozens of sites |
| Data appears on-line but actually migrates data from fast on-line RAIDs to inexpensive on-line storage to near-line |
Maximize disk utilization and minimize purchase costs and electricity expenses |
| Fully customizable policy driven migration |
Optimize utilization based on your goals and actual experiences |
| Integrates with Backup solutions like Atempo Time Navigator |
Increased efficiency of tape utilization |
| Prescheduled tape refreshes |
Avoids problems with old, unreadable tapes |
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