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SGI InfiniteStorage
®

SGI InfiniteStorage
Intelligent Data Management
®

™

Intelligent Storage Analytics and Data Management
That Meets Expanding Big Data Storage Requirements

™

Overview

Key Features
Graphical Data Analysis &
Automated, Policy-Driven
Content Migration
Storage Virtualization &
Tiered Data Management
System Monitoring, Audit
Trail, Retention & Security

A Shifting Trend in Data Management

The Analyze, Migrate & Manage Model

Successful organizations view data as an increasingly important
asset that provides business value over longer periods of time,
and, in some instances, forever. While some of this thought
evolution is a result of increased regulatory/legal requirements,
much is being driven by new uses for data in analysis models, new
data types being created by diverse applications, and the general
realization that organizations utilizing long-term data assets are
operating more effectively and are outperforming their competition.
As a result, organizations want to store and maintain seamless
online access to more data throughout a longer lifecycle.

Based on experience in designing and deploying a
broad range of petascale storage solutions for the most
demanding data environments in the world – SGI has
created a software platform and methodology based on
three core concepts; Analyze, Migrate & Manage – that
address the challlenges of storage growth in a creative yet
highly proven manner.

Big Data Brings Big Challenges
As leading industry analysts are all reporting, the growing
requirement for virtually infinite data storage is breaking many
of the process and economic frameworks that have historically
been associated with storing organizational data.

•t tAnalysis of data assets to drive understanding of
filesize, type, location and usage characteristicst

•t tBreaking the Budget: As data volumes grow by 50% per
year, it is no longer an option for organizations to simply
purchase more expensive Tier 1 disk space — especially

•t tDeployment of data management policies that can
automatically relocate, validate, track and link files to
cost-correct tiers of storage

when over 80% of the data sitting on existing Tier 1
storage has not been accessed in over a year.

•t tBreaking the Backup: Exploding quantities of data can
overflow backup windows and cause massive storage
inefficiencies as petabytes of non-changing data are
repeatedly backed up and managed.
•t tBreaking the Processes: As organizations deploy new
storage technologies over time – the complexity, resources
and risks involved in manually performing mass data
migrations can lead to security risks – and even critical
data loss thay may not be discovered until the required
data is needed months or years later.

•t tImplementation of a data management platform
that allows organizations to store, protect, monitor,
retain, analyze and retrieve file data from a unified and
integrated solution

“IDC is observing a shifting trend in
cloud and web-scale architectures to
a multitier storage strategy in order
to sustain growth while maintaining
existing data.”
Source: IDC Technology Assessment, May 2013