SGI Introduces SGI® Modular InfiniteStorage™ Platform

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction of SGI® Modular InfiniteStorage™, an integrated server and storage platform designed to provide Cloud and data storage customers with the maximum flexibility for compute and data management applications. Leveraging industry-leading density in an innovative, adaptable design, the core SGI Modular InfiniteStorage platform will be available as either SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Server ( SGI MIS Server) or SGI Modular InfiniteStorage JBOD ( SGI MIS JBOD) storage products, for wide-ranging, functional scalability in diverse data environments.

SGI Modular InfiniteStorage is perfect for cloud computing and other IT storage management environments that require data and compute to be tightly coupled. This enables customers to pool processing and storage in the right proportions for greatest efficiency, and in precisely the manner they need to keep pace with the rapidly expanding data and application demands of their business.

Form meets function in SGI Modular InfiniteStorage, with an innovative chassis architecture designed to adapt to the real-world demands of today’s data centers. Extreme density is achieved with the introduction of modular drive bricks. This breakthrough design enables each of the bricks to be loaded with either nine 3.5 inch SAS or SATA drives, or 18 2.5 inch SAS or SSD drives. As a storage server, SGI MIS Server includes eight drive bricks and two motherboards, for up to 216TB and four 1.8 to 2.9 GHz processors in a single 4U server chassis. The modularity of the system means that the same platform could be configured for extreme IOPs applications, for example, by substituting the 72 3.5-inch disk drives with 144 SSDs. For additional capacity, an SGI MIS JBOD can be added, which packs nine drive bricks for up to 243TB of disk capacity into each additional 4U enclosure.