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SGI DELIVERS SGI INFINITESTORAGE DATA LIFECYCLE MGT SERVER

Addressing the intensifying challenges of managing increasing amounts of data over time, Silicon Graphics the world's leader in high-performance computing, storage and visualization announced the SGI InfiniteStorage Data Lifecycle Management Server (DLM Server). The DLM Server automatically implements users' DLM policies and ensures data is cost- appropriately stored based on its changing value over time. Virtualizing multiple storage assets with different price and performance capabilities, the DLM Server ensures data is always available to users, applications and administrators without the complexity and delay of traditional archiving approaches, and at a much lower cost than high- performance storage alone.

Leveraging more than a decade of experience in managing the largest and most demanding data environments in the world, the SGI DLM Server is built on proven technology to deliver:

"For years, SGI has been solving the DLM challenges in the most data intensive environments," said Gabriel Broner, senior vice president and general manager, Storage and Software Group, SGI. "Data Lifecycle Management Server brings superior capabilities as well as seamless integration with SGI's storage offerings with support for all major platforms in a single DLM solution."

A number of leading companies look to SGI for its DLM solutions, including NASA Ames, UCLA LONI, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, The Scripps Research Institute (TRSI) and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). These customers can attest to the powerful migration performance SGI's DLM products offer.

"In our industry managing massively complex data successfully is critical," commented Arthur Toga, Professor of Neurology, Director, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Co-Director, Division of Brain Mapping for UCLA LONI. "With SGI's DLM solutions, we have increased process efficiency while lowering our total cost of ownership."

"As an established vendor in the HPC market, supplying both server and storage technologies, SGI is uniquely positioned to offer customers tailored data lifecycle management solutions for data intensive environments," explained Joseph Zhou, senior analyst, D.H. Brown. "In addition, SGI DLM Server is optimized for specific application environments rather than operating systems, which differentiates it from proprietary solutions from other vendors."

DLM Server integrates with the complete line of SGI InfiniteStorage solutions and products including scalable high-performance NAS and SAN, world- record backup, high-availability and disaster recovery. The underlying capabilities of the SGI InfiniteStorage Filesystem XFS and SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS ensure the utmost in high I/O bandwidth and data availability among IRIX, Solaris, Windows, AIX, Linux and Mac OS X systems making it a true heterogeneous offering. DLM Server allows for a blend of Serial ATA, Fibre Channel disk storage, tape and other storage media to create cost-optimized environments. DLM Server is also compatible with additional InfiniteStorage backup capabilities including Serial ATA, Fibre Channel disk storage and tape library products.

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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world's leader in high- performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at http://www.sgi.com.