UIT IP-SAN/NAS and FC Storage Systems Available in Singapore and Malaysia

United Information Technology (UIT) has introduced the BX1200, a unified IP SAN/NAS Storage Array System and the BM2900, a full-featured Fibre Channel Storage System for small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises in Singapore.

Today’s IT managers are continuously challenged by the ever increasing need for data storage, flat or declining budgets and lack of data centre space. With these new product lines, UIT has countered these challenges by delivering platforms that are easy to manage, mitigate risk, possess high performance-to-price ratio and provide high scalability to meet the fast growing data requirements.

“In Asia Pacific, more companies and organisations are leveraging on UIT’s storage solutions which help customers lower cost by simplifying the management of expanding environments, meeting new centralised backup requirements and controlling explosive data growth,” said Vincent Low, Regional Director of UIT.


UIT BX1200: IP SAN/NAS Storage Array System

Building on internet protocol (IP) technology, the BX 1200 is capable of efficiently running back office applications such as email and database backup, file system consolidation, file sharing and web server hosting.

The BX1200’s hot swappable hardware components feature redundancy, delivering higher reliability to SMB users. The high performance SATA / SAS controller can be equipped with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 64-bit processor (upgradable to dual Intel Xeon processors) and a 2GB fully buffered ECC cache. Together with UIT’s unique read-ahead cache algorithm and I/O accelerating technology, the BX1200 can provide bandwidth of up to 400MB/s.

UIT’s BX1200 also supports flexible connections through two iSCSI hosts ports (expandable to four ports) and one SAS 4x expansion port. It has a 2U rack-mounted unit with 12 slots for hot swappable hard drives and the storage capacity can be expanded through SAS technology and three JBOD arrays (12 drives can be added per JBOD array) for applications requiring high demands for capacity.

“The BX1200 offers great flexibility for organisations allowing them to balance capacity and performance needs to fit their situation. It can be configured with features to deliver the highest levels of interactive performance. It can also serve as a low-cost, large capacity storage scaling up to 48TB in a single system,” he added.

With the intelligent GUI-based management console, the BX1200 requires no special workstation or server simplifying management and configuration. The system can support embedded software to form a storage appliance system such as UIT WebDisk for file sharing. It can also support third party embedded software for tasks such as file sharing, mirroring, remote application, surveillance and the hosting of a virtual tape library.

UIT BM2900: Fibre Channel Storage System

Delivering cost-effective, scalable storage, the BM2900 is a full featured Fibre Channel Storage System, which offers enterprise-level functionality for businesses ranging from SMBs to major enterprises. It features a combination of capacity, reliability and scalability coupled with advanced manageability and the highest data system integrity. It is hot swappable with redundancy for all key internal components ensuring guaranteed data protection and delivery to help ensure the stability of your business-critical applications.

In addition, the BM2900 gives customers more choice by allowing them to select the appropriate drive type, and even allowing them to intermix Fibre Channel and SATA drives to maximise usability and minimise costs. In one enclosure, it can support up to 15 Fibre Channel drives, providing a total storage capacity of 6TB with 400Gb disk drives or 15TB with 1TB SATA Disk drives. The system can be further scaled up to 240TB by creating a tiered-storage environment.

With the proprietary UIT System Manager software – an embedded, web-based configuration tool – all tasks can be completed through simple point-and-click operation. The policy-based System Manager enables storage administrators to dynamically configure and monitor their storage systems from a single management console.

The system also comes with a wide range of software providing advanced features including UIT SAN Manager, Volume Manager-based Virtualisation (VMV), Managed Snapshot Services (MSS), Volume Copy Services (VCS), Intelligent Capability Management Services (ICM) and Remote Replication Services (RRS).

“With the BM2900, UIT is demonstrating its commitment to providing customers with versatile storage systems that deliver adaptable performance and scalability in a cost-effective package. Allowing smaller businesses and workgroups access to Fibre Channel Storage means that they can take advantage of technology previously limited to large scale, big-budget high-cost installations and realise significant cost and time savings,” he added.

The UIT BX1200 and UIT BM2900 is backed by a three-year hardware warranty and is now available via Isolectra Far East Pte Ltd in Singapore, Originex and Isolectra Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.