UCIT maintains a state of the art Storage Area Network consisting of cutting edge technologies including:

• Dual redundant SAN Fabrics each containing Brocade director class fiber switches.
• EMC Symmetrix VMAX Storage Array with 160TB of useable space.
• EMC NS-480 Storage Array providing 150TB of usable space supporting CIFS , NFS and iSCSI.
• Data Domain DD880 Deduplication Storage System capable of holding 600TB of data and providing multiple Virtual Tape Libraries, CIFS and NFS shares.

UCIT provides access to several tiers of storage depending upon your specific needs. After a careful assessment of your requirements, we will customize a solution to meet your requirements.

If your organization co-locates within our G95 Data Center or is within fiber-run reach, we can provide data access over 8GB Fiber Channel connections to the premiere name in storage, EMC Symmetrix for optimum performance. If your organization has their own on-campus facility, we can provide excellent service over Ethernet utilizing our NS480 providing CIFS, NFS or iSCSI connections. In either case, our storage administration team will provide administrative support , performance monitoring and 24x7 data availability.

The goal of our Storage Administration team is to provide world class data storage at economical pricing. E-mail us at ucittsmadm@uc.edu to schedule a visit to our data center or to discuss your organizational storage needs.