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NEC'S NEW FAULT TOLERANT SERVERS OFFER UPGRADED PERFORMANCE, CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY NEC's fault tolerant servers based on Intel 'Nehalem' Xeon processors are the perfect low-cost solution to keep systems running in emergency response, physical security, manufacturing automation environments Santa Clara, Calif., August 25, 2009 ― NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced fault-tolerant (FT) servers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series (formerly code-name "Nehalem"). These new FT servers run with one or two CPUs benefiting from the performance boost of the new Intel Xeon processor to offer the ideal low-cost continuous availability solution for robust mission-critical, non-stop computing environments such as emergency response, physical security, and manufacturing automation. "Hardware failure is the most common reason for unplanned downtime," said Matt Eastwood, group vice president, Enterprise Platforms, IDC. "Unplanned downtime can cost millions per hour in the U.S., and can result in lost lives, loss of business, and SLA fines. Fault tolerant servers offer improved continuous protection against hardware failures and provide enterprises with a critical solution to these challenges." NEC's fault-tolerant servers deliver exceptional up-time through dual modular hardware redundancy. Main hardware components, including CPU and memory, are replicated to run in lockstep (two redundant modules process the same instructions at the same time). If any hardware component fails in one module, the faulty component is isolated automatically, and processing continues uninterrupted in the other module without downtime and loss of data. The failed module can be replaced while the other module continues to operate. "In our business, unplanned downtime can be life-threatening," said Charlie Stortz, vice president of Logistic Systems, Inc., developer of automated emergency response call centers. "We rely on NEC's fault tolerant servers to guarantee our customers the availability they need. The NEC servers are so reliable and easy to maintain that they actually save costs over the life of the system." A key capability of the fault tolerant server is that it is extremely easy to maintain at a very low cost. Alternative software solutions may protect against hardware faults with adequate system restart capabilities, but once a failover occurs, resetting the system and software configuration back into a re-start operation can be expensive. NEC's fault tolerant server eliminates such maintenance cost, time, and technical risk. If a failover occurs due to a hardware fault, NEC replaces the entire server module under its warranty program no matter what part fails. Furthermore, the replaced module is 'hot-swappable' and can be easily replaced by anyone at the server's facility. Only basic knowledge is needed to physically remove the old module and insert the new one all while the redundant module continues to run. The FT server will automatically synchronize memory and storage with the running module, effectively putting the server back in fault tolerant mode within minutes and without any downtime. "Intel and NEC have had a productive multi-generational relationship on fault tolerant servers based on the Intel Xeon processor," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Server Platforms Group. "Incorporating the new intelligent performance and energy efficiency capabilities of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series into NEC's new fault tolerant server platforms will give our mutual customers a more robust, lower-cost solution for continuous availability." NEC's new fault tolerant servers, the Express5800/R320a-M4 and Express5800/R320a-E4 feature Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors. Additional enhancements include support for up to 96 GB memory and 2.4TB storage as well as the ability to handle more PCIe expansion cards. The new FT servers also sport improved air flow to ensure they can run in environments outside the traditional data center. New NEC Fault Tolerant Server Capabilities Summary of new features in the NEC Express5800/R320a include: • Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® E5504 and X5570 processors; • High-speed DDR3 memory modules for additional memory access performance; • Support up to 8 GB DIMM to increase memory up to 96 GB; • Support up to eight 2.5-inch SAS hard disk drives, for faster performance and energy efficiency; and • Expanded remote management capabilities. The key component that generates the fault tolerant capability is the GeminiEngine™, a chipset designed by NEC. It is the heart of lockstep processing in the ft series servers specially engineered to synchronize the two redundant modules, while also preventing CPU performance degradation. Hardware redundancy extends even to the connection between NEC's FT server and storage. This redundancy further improves data availability, simplifying consolidation of physically distributed file servers and web servers to a single FT server. Equipped with fully-redundant and hot-swappable components, including redundant memory processors and I/O subsystems, NEC's Fault Tolerant servers achieve up to 99.999% system uptime or approximately five minutes of annual downtime. The NEC Express5800/R320a-M4 and NEC Express5800/R320a-E4 will be generally available in North America within weeks, supporting 64-bit Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 and 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2. Systems for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® will be available later this year. "Providing business continuity for an organization requires a dynamic infrastructure with a wide variety of high availability options," said Marc Hafner, vice president of Servers and System Software Division, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America. "NEC's fault tolerant servers provide customers the ultimate in continuous hardware availability. Combined with NEC's ExpressCluster software for application and data protection, customers can have additional protection against unplanned downtime caused by software errors or facility disasters." NEC's fault tolerant servers are part of the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure-a solution that includes servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software that are smart, flexible, adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously evolving. Along with NEC's broad range of services-the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides an ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity and is ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in solutions for physical security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and entertainment, education, high performance computing, and business. This type of infrastructure allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner. For more information about NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure, please visit www.necam.com/DynamicIT. About NEC Corporation of America NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and identity management solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave radio communications to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema solutions. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit http://www.necam.com. **Prices, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice. Resellers determine their own pricing. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. © 2009 NEC Corporation of America. Contacts:: Linda Goncalves NEC Corporation of America (408) 844-1325 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Tokyo, November 11, 2008 - NEC Corporation today announced that on November 6, 2008, its recently released Intel® Xeon® processor-based "NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server" achieved the fastest performance on the TPC-E benchmark.1 The world record performance, 1,400 tpsE (transactions-per-second in TPC-E), achieved by the NEC Express5800/A11602, outperforms the previous record by 12 percent and also has a 9 percent improvement in price performance at $ 1,190.24 USD/tpsE.3 The NEC Express5800/A1160 features state of the art NEC server technology with an up-to-4-box-capable building block structure powered by the Intel Xeon X7460 processor and high speed interconnect "HSI technology." The server combines both the high-scalability and high performance that are required in mission critical systems. This industry-leading benchmark was achieved with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 and SQL Server® 2008 running on the server hardware, which served as the database server, and NEC's innovative Enterprise Modular Storage D3-10 functioning as the database storage system. NEC's achievement of this world-record benchmark with its new NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server has solidified its industry-leading performance. Drawing from NEC's rich heritage in mainframe computing, the NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server also has the reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features required to meet the increasing demands of business-critical applications. NEC is committed to providing mission critical database system solutions with NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server products, their advanced performance and rich RAS feature.
POWER CATALYST RE-ENERGIZES WITH VIRTUALIZATION, DISASTER RECOVERY AND NON-DISRUPTIVE SCALABILITY VIA NEC DYNAMIC IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Power Catalyst Reduces Costs, Improves Service Levels; Achieves 50 Percent Reduction in Power Consumption Santa Clara, Calif. – July 28 2009 - NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced that Power Catalyst has reduced costs, improved customer service levels, and achieved a 50 percent reduction in power consumption by deploying a scalable, virtual solution on NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure products. Power Catalyst manages wholesale energy data in competitive power markets. The company brings enterprise-level data management and business intelligence solutions to companies in the energy industry that make each of them more innovative, agile, and efficient than their vertically integrated predecessors. Power Catalyst's customers rely on the company to use first-class IT solutions to deliver leading-edge services. Power Catalyst chose NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure to meet its needs for virtualization, reliability and power conservation. Working with nDataStor, an established NEC provider, Power Catalyst purchased and deployed NEC's D-Series SAN Storage and NEC Express5800/SIGMABLADE servers (2 chassis and 10 blades). "Power Catalyst has shifted from an ad hoc, daisy-chained system to a fully dynamic IT infrastructure," said Matt Neumark, IT Lead, Power Catalyst. “It has been reliable, and scalable, and we have more room to grow. If somebody were to call for a SAN and blade purchase, I’d point them to NEC. NEC has the feature set and value that nobody else can beat." NEC has been selling servers since 1959 and is among the top five storage vendors globally, so Neumark was confident the company could support him long-term. Ultimately, Neumark found NEC to have a robust feature set and superior value. “Virtualization, consolidation and high availability can optimize IT efficiency and reduce OPEX,” said Karen Dutch, VP of marketing, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America. “But without the foundation of a dynamic IT infrastructure that is scalable, resilient, and adaptable, organizations will never realize the full potential of these initiatives.” Neumark was able to meet all of the requirements he and his management team outlined: high availability, optimized efficiency, performance, reduced footprint, a disaster recovery component, and controlling energy, space and people expenses. The IT department has taken advantage of virtualization on NEC VMware-certified servers and storage to evolve from hands-on, time-consuming management to better allocation of human resources. "NEC and nDataStor gave Power Catalyst an enterprise solution that met all of our needs, and that we were able to quickly deploy as needed," says Matt Neumark. "The system is dependable, efficient and scalable." NEC Express5800/SIGMABLADE servers and D-Series SAN storage are part of NEC's Dynamic IT Infrastructure–a solution that includes servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software that are smart, flexible, adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously evolving. Along with NEC's broad range of services–the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides an ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity and is ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in solutions for physical security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and entertainment, education, high performance computing, and business. This type of infrastructure allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner. About NEC Corporation of America NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and identity management solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave radio communications to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema solutions. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit http://www.necam.com/dynamicIT. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. © 2009 NEC Corporation of America.
NEC Corporation of America Introduces First Unified Mid-Range Modular and Enterprise Storage System to Allow Non-Disruptive Online Upgrades New NEC D-Series Sets New Storage Standard, Enabling Scalability Without 'Rip and Replace' Disruption to Performance and Availability Santa Clara, Calif., May 9, 2007 - NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today introduced the NEC D-Series storage systems that set a new standard for massive scalability, high performance and high availability. Using the D-Series storage arrays, small to large enterprises can for the first time non-disruptively and cost-effectively scale storage from 219 GB to 1.152 PB-upgrades that can be made while the systems remain online. Non-disruptive upgrades are possible with the NEC D-Series' revolutionary design, the first to unify the characteristics of mid-range modular and enterprise storage architectures in a single system. With the D-Series arrays, enterprises can also scale from 2 GB to 128 GB of cache, from four to sixty-four 4 GB-per-second fibre channels, and from three to 1,536 disk drives. This broad, non-disruptive scalability provides businesses with incredible flexibility in deploying a storage system for today's needs that can grow to meet tomorrow's demands. "Customers across a broad range of industries are experiencing tremendous growth in the storage capacity and performance needed to support a successful business," said Brad Nisbet, program manager for IDC Storage Systems. "Storage systems like the D-Series from NEC that allow customers to non-disruptively scale capacity, performance, connectivity and availability across a broad range of entry-points can provide the flexibility and investment protection that customers are seeking." NEC D-Series is designed to meet the most demanding requirements of enterprises' mission critical applications for scalability, availability and business continuity. In addition to online upgrades, the new system offers unmatched functionality for maximizing throughput and availability, including:
"Enterprises of all sizes must continually manage the growth, cost and complexity of the storage systems that support their most critical business operations," said Matthew Wolken, vice president, Fault Tolerant Servers and Data Storage of NEC Corporation of America. "With our new NEC D-Series, these companies' decisions are simplified by the unprecedented flexibility of right-sized storage systems that can scale to support the most demanding operational and transaction environments."
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