[March 29, 2012]

NEC Sets TPC BenchmarkTM E (TPC-E) Performance Record

NEC (News - Alert) Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communications, networking and IT solutions, today announced that the NEC Express5800/A1080a-E enterprise server with Intel (News - Alert)® Xeon® processor E7 architecture achieved the fastest performance on the TPC Benchmark^TM E (TPC-E)¹. This world record performance of 4,614.22tpsE (transactions-per-second in TPC-E) at $450.18USD/tpsE was achieved by the NEC Express5800/A1080a-E.. The results demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft (News - Alert) Corp's new SQL Server 2012, available April 2, to support very high-end OLTP workloads in demanding enterprise environments and NEC's commitment to deliver industry-leading SQL Server performance.

Building upon a decade long development experience, the fifth generation Express5800/A1080a-E server with support for the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 architecture provides optimal investment protection, reliability and scalability in high-load SQL Server and virtual machine environments where downtime can be most costly.

"Microsoft is pleased that NEC has once again shown the tremendous performance characteristics of its enterprise servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012," said Claude Lorenson, Director, SQL Server Product Management, at Microsoft. "The benchmark results demonstrate that the combination of NEC's proven technology and SQL Server 2012 provide a platform that is ready for today's most demanding workloads."

"Drawing from NEC's rich heritage in mainframe and supercomputer computing, the NEC Express5800/A1080a enterprise server's reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features are built around Intel's E7 Series processors to meet the increasing demands of business-critical applications," said Mike Mitsch, vice president of IT products, NEC Enterprise Technologies. "This release continues to demonstrate NEC's commitment to providing mission critical database system solutions with the NEC Express5800 enterprise server products."

In addition to holding the top position, NEC's Express5800/1000 series servers hold two additional top-ten TPC-E performance benchmarks² demonstrating NEC's continuous work to improve performance in its high end server line. TPC-E is an industry-standard benchmark that is designed to be broadly representative of modern OLTP systems. The benchmark simulates a brokerage firm with customers, accounts and holdings, where customers trade stocks and monitor their accounts and the market.

Performance Results

Measured System

About NEC Corporation of America

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, biometrics, network, and communications products and solutions for service carriers, Fortune 1000 and SMB businesses across multiple vertical industries, including Healthcare, Government, Education and Hospitality. NEC Corporation of America delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including unified communications, wireless, voice and data, managed services, server and storage infrastructure, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biometric security. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in over 44 countries and more than $37.5 billion in revenues. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.

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¹ NEC Express5800/A1080a-E with the Intel Xeon processor E7-8870 (8 processors/80 cores/160 threads) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1;, 4,614.22, USD $450.18/tpsE, available April 2, 2012. Availability Date is that for the North American Market. Source (News - Alert): Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The competitive benchmark results stated in this press release reflect results published on www.tpc.org as of March 28, 2012.

TPC Benchmark, TPC-E, and tpsE are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. .

² In addition to the TPC-E result announced today, NEC's other top ten results include: NEC Expres5800/A1080a-E with Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870 (8 processors/80 cores/160 threads) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP1, 4,200.61 tpsE, USD $287.42/tpsE, available August 31, 2011; and NEC Expres5800/A1080a-E with Intel Xeon Processor X7560 (8 processors/64 cores/128 threads) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP1, 3,141.76 tpsE, USD $768.92/tpsE, available July 30, 2010. These benchmark results reflect results published on www.tpc.org as of March 28, 2012.

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