USI’s Cutting-Edge Storage Solutions

Low Cost Enterprise SATA RAID Storage
At USI we are focused on thinking beyond "how it has been done.” We think of new ways - better ways - it can be done. Our commitment to innovation enables USI to deliver products that help simplify the most demanding storage and data protection requirements. This includes offering high availability, high capacity SATA RAID storage solutions that deliver the advantages and security of a true enterprise class system, but without the complexity and the cost. USI’s SATA RAID storage arrays are designed for primary storage, D2D, secondary storage and fixed content archive requirements where reliability and performance are an absolute with a high availability product architecture that features full redundancy across all active components, and blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS performance make these products the perfect choice for data-intensive applications.

Cost Effective Business Continuance & Disaster Recovery
USI can provide your business with sophisticated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions that keep your critical data safe, protected, and available--backup hardware and software that allows you to quickly backup and restore. This includes snapshot technology that enables you to recover frequently used primary data almost instantly, replication capabilities that allow you to replicate data to other locations quickly and automatically, and proven backup and restore solutions to keep all your data safe and protected. Together, these Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions make it possible to: Create unlimited data snapshots as often as once every minute--and recover lost or damaged data almost instantly. Recover data from a specific point in time, before it became damaged or corrupted. Quickly restore data--even in the event of core operating system corruption. Automatically replicate data to different physical locations-then failover automatically in the event of system failures or disasters. Backup and recover data completely and cost effectively--with the right blend of integrated disk- and tape-based backup hardware and recovery software. Make your data more available by adding intelligence to your primary and secondary storage infrastructures. Keep your critical information ready and available--no matter what happens-- with USI's disaster recovery solutions.

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) & Tiered Storage
Effective storage management is a constant balancing act. Your most critical data needs to be stored on fast, high-powered devices where your customers, employees, and partners can access it quickly. But as information ages and becomes less critical, you need to move it to lower-cost secondary storage devices--and eventually to longer-term archive systems. Managing this complicated process can be difficult--and the failure to effectively manage the lifecycle of your data can quickly send storage costs spiraling out of control. USI offers a complete range of storage solutions that enable you to implement an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy efficiently and cost-effectively in a Tiered Storage model. This includes fast, intelligent primary storage solutions, efficient disk-based backup and recovery appliances, cost-effective secondary storage devices and data archiving solutions, and sophisticated software--all working together to store data where it makes the most sense.

Disk Backup & Virtual Tape
Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenge of protecting increasing amounts of critical data from loss. Traditional backup methods using tape alone often can no longer meet this challenge, requiring many IT managers to search for new techniques. The search for more capable strategies is primarily due to the risk of unacceptably long periods of down time in cases where individual files and directories need to be quickly restored. Users find that the use of disk devices can significantly speed up and simplify the recovery task. While disk-based solutions are rapidly emerging as the preferred strategy for backup and recovery, the use of tape for data archiving is also growing rapidly in businesses that need to comply with government regulations that mandate specific data retention requirements. As a result, industry experts now recommend data protection "best practices" that combine the advantages of disk with those of tape - by using disk as the first stage of data protection and tape for longer term data archiving. This technique has been given the general name of disk-to-disk-to-tape, or D2D2T. Although specific implementations vary widely, there are two basic approaches for implementing Disk-Based Backup in a D2D2T environment: Use the disk configured as a virtual tape library (VTL) and/or as standalone virtual tape drives. This enables the disk to be easily managed by popular backup software similar to the way physical tape is managed (without changes to existing backup policies), followed by duplication of some virtual tapes to physical tape or as a secondary disk device, configured as disk volumes (LUNs) and often referred to as disk staging. Let USI help you understand which implementation is best for you environment, and improve your backup and recovery speed, reliability and manageability.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Businesses face a difficult task of protecting their corporate data, and although most companies have implemented solutions for protecting their enterprise data, laptops and workstations are often unprotected. Lost data significantly impacts productivity and creates downtime. USI’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions enable a company to protect data residing on laptops and workstations, with little or no IT involvement. CDP provides real-time, invisible file replication. It continuously protects important files. No scheduling is required. No tapes are required. When a file is saved, a copy is automatically stored on local disk. A second copy can be automatically sent to a file server or Network Attached Storage (NAS). A third copy can be automatically sent to a server. With CDP, files are backed up the moment they are saved in real time and multiple versions can be stored, backup times are reduced or eliminated, data loss is reduced, and easy restores improve productivity. USI’s CDP file vault retains data files for pre-defined lengths of time. It is easy to configure without a user interface, provides write protection, and cannot be modified or deleted once a file is vaulted.

Storage Security
Networked storage helps enterprises speed access to data and reduce administrative overhead, but can leave critical data vulnerable. Without the physical separation provided by traditional direct-attached storage, data assets become co-mingled in both NAS and SAN environments, putting them at much greater risk for unauthorized access, theft or misuse.
Technologies like firewalls and intrusion prevention systems seek to secure enterprise assets by protecting the perimeter of the network, but these approaches leave data at the storage core dangerously open to both internal and external attacks. USI offers reliable, multi-gigabit-speed encryption appliances that integrate transparently into NAS, SAN, DAS and tape backup environments as well as Enterprise storage security appliances that incorporate a broad range of data storage applications into a single, integrated solution, eliminating the cost and complexity of deploying multiple single-function appliances. By locking down stored data with strong encryption, and routing all access through secure hardware, USI radically simplifies the security model for networked storage. USI security appliances combine secure access controls, authentication, storage encryption, and secure logging to provide unprecedented protection for sensitive stored data. Because our products protect data at rest and in flight with strong encryption, even organizations that outsource IT management can be sure their data assets are secure. In short, USI storage security solutions offer a powerful and cost-effective answer to address a broad range of external, internal, and physical threats to sensitive data.