[April 06, 2004] NEC Delivers New Disaster Recovery Solution; Solution Provides Customers with Rapidly Deployed, Cost-Effective Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Resources SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- April 6, 2004 -- NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, today introduced the NEC Disaster Recovery Fault Tolerant (FT) Solution, a highly anticipated new enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution that allows companies to recover from virtually any infrastructure system failure while ensuring the ongoing availability and integrity of mission-critical resources. NEC unveiled its Disaster Recovery FT Solution today as part of its participation in the ClusterWorld(TM) Conference and Expo in San Jose, Calif. Built with NEC's EXPRESSCLUSTER(R) software, Express5800/320Lb server and S1300 storage platforms, the Disaster Recovery FT Solution offers customers an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective infrastructure solution that protects mission-critical data in the event of the destruction of local computing resources, while allowing surviving resources to continue working with access to the latest data. The primary objective of a disaster recovery plan is to enable an organization to survive a computer room disaster and to re-establish normal business operations in just a few minutes. In order to survive, an organization must ensure that critical operations can resume within a reasonable timeframe, said Larry Sheffield, senior vice president of the Solutions Platform Group for NEC Solutions America. NEC's Disaster Recovery FT Solution is designed to minimize the duration of a serious disruption to business operations, facilitate effective coordination of recovery tasks, and most important, reduce the complexity of the recovery effort. NEC's Disaster Recovery FT Solution is a comprehensive solution that leverages several leading technologies developed by NEC to provide the following benefits: -- Up to 99.999% Hardware Availability - Server and storage technology minimizes chances of remote failover operations that require service interruptions, failover and fail back operational risks. -- Automatic Failover via WAN - Seamless operations between fault tolerant procedures in local failures and disaster recovery procedures. -- Disaster Recovery in Minutes - Node heartbeat monitoring detects whether a cluster node is functional, and then enables to failover within minutes. -- Data Integrity - Application data mirroring technology provides complete data integrity between production local database and remote one. -- One-Stop Support - NEC Solutions America provides total solution support including hardware, software and services. -- High Performance Storage - Fault tolerant S1300 storage from NEC complements the fault tolerant servers with fully redundant hardware providing nearly 4TB of fibre channel storage capacity. -- Cost-Effective Configurations - Customers can choose from Active/Active configurations where both servers host and backup data or Active/Passive configuration where active applications reside on one server and data is backed up to another server for emergency use. Scalable Software, Continuous Hardware At the core of NEC's Disaster Recovery FT Solution is a scalable and flexible clustering software solution that provides automatic recovery. When a fault occurs at the server, the software understands that the server is designed with fault tolerant hardware. However, in the event of a data center-level disaster that destroys the whole server, the EXPRESSCLUSTER software automatically detects the loss of the server and instantly instructs another server to take over the workload of the faulty server, allowing the users to access all their applications and data to continue to operate. Using virtual IP addresses and virtual computer names enables a server to be reconnected without renaming of the devices or the client application being aware that the server was switched. The power behind NEC's Disaster Recovery FT Solution is the Express 5800/320Lb server which is designed to provide mission-critical applications with continuous availability in an easy to manage, affordable, compact, rack-mount (4U) or pedestal platform. The Dual Modular Redundant (DMR) design of the Express5800/320Lb allows easy replacement of major subsystems without interruption of processing. The unique dual-modular hardware architecture is comprised of redundant subsystems executing all processing in lockstep to virtually eliminate any single point of failure while safeguarding data integrity. These CPU subsystems perform the same instructions at the same time, with instantaneous failover to the redundant subsystem in the event of hardware failure. For example, if a disaster error occurs, the system isolates the faulty subsystem and instantly fails over to the alternate subsystem without memory data loss or application interruption. Servicing the system is as simple as replacing the faulty module while the server remains online. There is no interruption in processing, no data loss and no performance impact. Pricing & Availability NEC's Disaster Recovery FT Solution is available now in multiple configurations starting at $99,000. For more information contact an NEC at 888-632-8701. Visit NEC at ClusterWorld Expo NEC will be demonstrating its Disaster Recovery FT Solution in Booth #301 at the ClusterWorld Expo being held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA - April 6-8, 2004. About NEC Solutions America NEC Solutions (America), Inc. is a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America. As an affiliate of NEC Corporation (Nasdaq:NIPNY) (FTSE:6701q.1), NEC Solutions America taps into a global resource network to help clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive edge. From mobile enterprise computing systems, biometric security solutions, business intelligence, projector and plasma display solutions, business services management and IT professional services, the expertise is delivered with the personal attention needed to address individual situations. With headquarters in Rancho Cordova, California, NEC Solutions America maintains research, marketing, sales and support facilities throughout the United States. Information regarding NEC Solutions America can be found at www.necsam.com. Editor's Note: Information, prices, and specifications are subject to change without notice. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]