NAS Appliances manage explosive data growth.(SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS Family Delivers High-Performance and Scalability With Enterprise-Class Ease of Management)

Designed to scale in storage capacity, file directory size, and performance, SGI[R] InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS Series is based on XFS[R] file system and SGI[R] InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager GUI, which optimizes storage resources, manages growth, and allows set-up of base NAS configurations in less than 20 min. Users can choose solutions that range from 3 TB 2U platform to high-end solution with nearly 1/2 petabyte of storage.

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New Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Family Designed To Efficiently Manage Digital Data Explosion

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /-- Storage Decisions Booth 402 -- To address explosive data growth plaguing businesses, government and research institutions, SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC) today unveiled the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family focused on making high-performance storage technology easier to use.

At the heart of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is SGI's highly efficient XFS(R) file system, repurposed for NAS appliance simplicity, and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager, a new graphical-user interface for optimizing storage resources, managing growth and allowing the set-up of base NAS configurations in less than 20 minutes.

As a result, the new SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is designed to efficiently scale in storage capacity, file directory size and performance by providing base platform options that can …