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NEC Announces 6th Generation Scalable Enterprise Server Optimized for SDNIRVING, Texas --(Business Wire)-- NEC Corporation of America (NEC (News - Alert)), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT and communications solutions, managed services and biometrics solutions, today announced with NEC Corporation in Japan the release of the Express5800/A2000 (A2000) series enterprise server using the Intel (News - Alert) Xeon processor E7 v2 product family. The A2000 series is the sixth generation of NEC's Enterprise Intel Server Architecture and is designed to optimize performance, scalability and reliability for mission critical workloads. The new servers can be ordered beginning on Feb. 28, with a list price starting at $30,000. The A2000 series is an enterprise-class server that's ideal for systems that perform high-speed operations and require mass storage, such as mission-critical tasks, heavy transactional workloads, in-memory databases, and large-scale, highly virtual infrastructure environments. Up to 4 TB of memory, 60 cores and 120 threads can be housed in the 4 CPU chassis. Custom configurations let customers populate two, three or four sockets. Based on NEC's industry-leading dynamic partitioning technology, these systems deliver on-demand functionality that allows for efficient use of CPU resources. When required, this technology not only allows scaling of performance by adding CPU cores, it also allows for in-flight replacement, providing higher levels of availability without suspending the system. "The need for greater levels of operational efficiency, combined with the acceleration of the virtualization of mission critical applications, is driving the highest levels of consolidation in the industry," said Mike Mitsch, vice president, IT platforms, NEC Corporation of America. "NEC's sixth generation Express5800 series combined with NEC's industry leading, commercially available ProgrammableFlow® SDN technology, which is optimized for Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager, delivers our clients new levels of consolidation and operational efficiency." (See Microsoft and NEC video.) Other key features of the Express5800/A2000 series include:
"When you run applications that are mission critical and have high SLAs, it's essential that hardware used in the infrastructure design mitigates the risk of downtime. NEC's server architecture and engineering design were the biggest influence on our decision," said Steineke. "The A2000 series is engineered to offer advanced RAS features, such as redundant service processors or increased number of enhanced I/O slots, which Edgenet needs to provide continuous operation and performance. We are looking forward to combining the A2000 server and ProgrammableFlow technology integrated with Microsoft's SCVMM and Hyper-V to deliver improved management, reporting, quality-of-service, and dedicated resources for customer facing applications. It is this type of comprehensive solution offering that puts NEC at a level ahead of the competition." More information on NEC's enterprise servers can be found at www.necam.com/EnterpriseServer. *According to NEC measurements of integer arithmetic performance in a 4-socket configuration **Operating system dependent ***Based on testing conducted by Principled Technologies on November 2013 between the NEC Express5800/A2040b enterprise server powered by Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4890 v2 and the HP ProLiant DL385 G6 legacy server.
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