Puteaux, France – 14th of September 2010 – NEC IT Platform Solutions, a division of NEC Corporation, announces the launch of two new blades (NEC Express 5800/B120b and NEC Express5800/B120B-d) to replace the B120a and B120a-d range. These new NEC blades have been developed to meet a strong market trend and the heightened data security requirements expected by IT managers.

A favourable economic background for the blade server market

While the economic crisis seems to have put a brake on growth for the foreseeable future, it has also changed the buying habits of IT managers. According to IDC Europe, companies will increasingly turn to X86 technologies for an ever larger number of applications.

For the blade server segment, this development was a catalyst for growth in 2009 and proved to be the greatest source of revenue in the X86 server market, according to IDC. By 2014, the average annual rate of growth for blade server sales is expected to be 13.9% in terms of value and 20.5% in terms of volume.

In touch with the market, NEC IT Platform Solutions is responding to this trend by offering IT managers a new range of high-performance blades.

Flexibility and power

Today, IT infrastructure has become an important strategic tool for companies and needs to respond to the major concerns of IT and business managers: it must be able to adapt and evolve with the needs of the organization.

The Express5800/SIGMABLADE blade servers offered by NEC provide a company with all the flexibility and performance required for infrastructure consolidation. This NEC range provides maximum versatility for power management, parameterization of virtual addresses, and network and management redundancy.
 

Simplified management of electricity resources

The functions for limiting or sharing energy apply across the entire range, so that all parameters can be simply defined according to the constraints of a bay or to keep electricity consumption to a minimum.

Total service security

With complete transparency and simplicity, all components are fully redundant on both chassis, thereby providing the same levels of security and service whatever the choice of architecture. The number and combination of network switches ensure complete redundancy in the case of component failure. This also ensures optimum security for business data.

Simplified management

Parameters are defined for virtual addresses in a few minutes with just a few clicks. The management interface is extremely visual and truly intuitive.

Access to the console of each blade is via a single USB port located on the front of the chassis, which also makes maintenance easier.

In addition, to enable IT managers to optimize the resources of their blade servers, they can add the NEC SigmaSystemCenter management software.

This makes it possible to monitor the load on the blades or processors and to manage resource allocations dynamically. These operations are possible on a virtual or physical infrastructure and therefore bring about an increase in the system service rate.
 

Improvements to the new range

• Low consumption L5640 and high-performance X5670 processors
• Up to 128 GB on the B120b and 192 GB on the B120b-d
• 600 GB HDD at 6 Gbps
• Two 10 Gbps multi-function controllers
• 8 Gbps fibre-compatible mezzanine

About IT Platform Solutions of NEC. From Servers and Storage to Software and Virtualized Desktops and Servers, IT Platform Solutions deliver solutions that maximize business efficiency and improve profits. NEC makes its best effort to meet customers’ needs with tailored innovative solutions. Its broad offerings include:

• Comprehensive solutions to maximize business availability and performance and to improve the profitability. NEC helps to improve operational efficiencies across the organization with short ROI and TCO.
• Green and virtualized servers and desktops that provide the resilience and the flexibility necessary for successful and agile enterprises.
• Unique Business Continuity solutions on the IT market :

1. Hardware: NEC’s Fault Tolerant system guarantees full redundancy of all hardware components: Whatever the hardware failure, customer’s Information System goes on running.
2. Software: NEC’s Express Cluster ensures failover and disaster recovery over either LAN or WAN in heterogeneous hardware platforms environment.

NEC Corporation(TSE: 6701) is one of the world’s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 140,000 people worldwide.

For additional information, please visit the NEC home page at: http://www.nec.com

Contact press

NEC France
IT Platform Solutions Division
Annick Reyngoudt
Tel : +33 (0)6.89.49.09.77
Annick.reyngoudt@eu.nec.com

OXYGEN
Karene Vigoureux/ Priscilia Fartoukh
kvigoureux@oxygen-rp.com / priscilia@oxygen-rp.com
Tel : +01.41.11.35.42/37.86

 
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