UIT Launched “New Storage New Vision� Conference

UIT (United Information Technology Company Limited) now becomes a global enterprise storage solution provider and storage expertise in the market since its establishment in China. UIT today announced last October its largest product launch conference event in Beijing Great Wall Sheraton Hotel with the title of New Storage New Vision for its latest hardware and software products, as well as solutions and market strategies. In the event, UIT introduced the company strategies in the technology development how to manage the challenge of massive information and unveiled the success in the innovation for high-speed storage, application storage, unified storage and cloud storage. According to the 4 major areas, UIT released 8 new products for BE800 for high-speed storage, BX1200 & BX1600 for application storage, BM3200, BM3600, BM3650 and BM3800 for unified storage and WebDisk for cloud storage. All of them are characterized by their new product architecture and wide applications.

Additionally, UIT also released 3 new solutions:

• Virtual Safebox Information Storage,
• Video Surveillance Distributed Storage and
• Enterprise Data Backup Storage

They can completely assist the customers to simplify their storage applications and fully utilize their data resources to greatly enhance the business operations. There were more than 200 guests to participate in this event and they were mostly from commercial, government and also media.

The IT development has been ever changing from previously talking about large scale mainframe, personal computing and then datacenter to nowadays in highly focus on information use. In this generation, everyone faces the challenges how to obtain, archive, manage and search from the tremendous volume of information. It is not only for just the technology development for information generation to application, but also important to label as the start of next generation for computing to become more personalized and intelligent.

IDC has just released a report to show that the growing speed of digital information is much far from their original expectation. The total volume of digital information has firstly exceeded the size of global storage space. China enterprises are also under the very high speed of data growth, their storage infrastructures become much complicated and it will also cause the great challenge to their applications. If the enterprises cannot effectively utilize and manage the information, it will even further create the big obstacle to the company expansion. So, how to use the company information to create its highest value? It is also the mission and vision of UIT.

Now, UIT has become the new key player in the storage industry of China. According to the IDC report, the sales revenue of UIT in the second quarter of 2008 has more than 120% in growth rate and the total market share is now 3.3% with the growth rate by 1.4% for both compared with same period of last year.

Comprehensive Storage Products to Focus
on Innovative Applications
With the full dedication on R&D and right product strategies, UIT released wide variety of products in different application areas. The UIT’s 4 application product groups can cover the enterprises from low, medium to high ranges. Furthermore, the technology expertise, application solutions and cloud storage services of UIT can also help enterprises easily manage their ever growing massive information.

UIT BE800 innovatively integrates the PCI-Express technology into the storage system together. It adopts the external PCI Express host interface to connect with host computer. The bandwidth of single port can reach 1000MB/s and also provides better manageability and scalability. BE800 also uses Active Streaming Stable Technology (ASST) that can make the media streaming much more smoothly. It is especially designed for high definition video editing of single workstation, animation production, multimedia design and production, small scale data warehouse, file sharing and archiving, nearline data protection, etc. They can all very useful applications.

Application storage is one of the most important product lines of UIT and they use the Storage Application Technology (SAT) as the core. UIT BX1200 and BX1600 not only provide the integrated storage for IP SAN / NAS together, but also offer high adaptability, performance and expandability. It can also be used according to customers’ requirements with the software of third party and become the customized application solutions that provide the ease of management and much lower the maintenance cost. For example, BX1600 can be embedded with video surveillance software to totally satisfy the needs of tremendous growth of video data.

In the unified storage area, UIT BM3200, BM3600, BM3650 and BM3800 adopted the Total Virtualization Technology (TVT) and One Key Tuning Technology (OKTT) and are also in flexible and reliable system architecture. They can help companies much lower their storage cost and maintain the high availability. The TVT includes volume consolidation, online storage management, online volume optimization, space migration, etc. They can help companies minimize the operation cost, fully utilize the storage resources and increase their overall efficiency. In addition, the OKTT can assist administrator to manage the storage systems with simple clicks.

Cloud storage is another major trend of IT industry and is also the main focus of UIT. In the event, UIT introduced the latest application software by Cloud Storage Technology – WebDisk 4.5, which has 3 main features of file management, network storage and enterprise application. It provides the easy management of ultra-high volume of storage space. WebDisk 4.5 enables high service continuity, high bandwidth and availability, auto load-balancing, and allows IP based remote access. WebDisk 4.5 can provide users the simple and quick way for storing, managing, file sharing and securing for their own data in the desktop PC. Users can fully enjoy the real advantages of cloud storage technology.

Advanced Solutions for Creating Value to Users
UIT understands the requirements of different industries and applies the knowledge advantage and technology expertise to develop the storage solutions suitable for these industry users. UIT has just released 3 new solutions that can assist customers to create value from their important data.

UIT Virtual Safebox Information Storage solution is especially designed for service providers offering storage space rental services and also enterprises for storage management. It gives small-medium businesses to individual users to satisfy their centralized management and backup requirements. It offers a safe, reliable, fast and professional file management and auto-backup service.

UIT Enterprise Data Backup solution is suitable to different industries and sizes of companies for their efficient data backup and remote disaster recovery. The solution is in simple operation with powerful features and also in modular design. It has high versatility to adapt many host systems, database and storage platforms. It also has the functions of Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and combined backup for all of them minimize the backup windows and increase its efficiency.

UIT Video Surveillance Distributed Storage solution is applied the high availability storage system architecture and is embedded with the surveillance management software. This integrated solution provides the functions of storage, recording, re-distribution, downloading, playback, and networking. It meets the requirements for network video surveillance of properties, factories and enterprises to the whole city. The solution can simplify the entire network structure; lower the initial investment cost and on-going maintenance expenses, and enhance the overall system performance.

With the new product release, UIT can provide more application solutions, for example, high definition video production for single workstation, storage solutions for education and medical industry, and information sharing in government.

3 Major Technology Research Centers
UIT has more than 100% expansion in the R&D area every year. There are 3 technology research centers located in Silicon Valley of USA, Shenzhen and Wuhan of China. The whole R&D team included the top-level experts from China and oversea. They have professional background and full experience in the technology and product development and can identify the practical storage problems from customers to develop the right solutions. UIT also co-operatives with other R&D organizations in China and provides the advanced technology solutions to the global market.

Among from all of the technology research centers, the Silicon Valley one plays the most critical role to catch the global trend in storage technology. Now, the technology development there includes Cloud Storage, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, 10G iSCSI and Green Storage. The center is particularly designed for software prototype design and development.

For the research center in Shenzhen, it has more than 200 professional experts and technical engineers located there. They are mainly responsible for storage cutting edge technology and application development, including, Cloud Storage, unified storage platform, software, application solutions, etc. This center is established for product development, integration and then productization. UIT has already applied the patient of product in 18 countries developed from this center.

For the last center in Wuhan, it is mainly to co-operate closely with the China National Storage Laboratory to develop the storage platforms. It is mainly responsible for the industrialization and modularization of software and hardware platforms.

UIT becomes one of the enterprise-level storage solution and technology service provider, with the mission to assist the enterprises fully utilize and protect their information to give the greatest value from it. Meanwhile, UIT also give quick response to the market needs to develop relevant products and solutions to satisfy different customers’ requirements. The company also put full dedication in the technology development to simplify the storage application and lower the total cost of ownership of customers in storage area. UIT has the long term strategic development to be the leading storage company to cope with the great challenge of information generation.