-- the highest levels of data integrity, including read validation on
SATA drives
-- scalable capacity and performance across multiple servers
-- high performance, particularly for sequential throughput
-- high availability and self-healing capabilities
-- dynamic provisioning with fine granularity and immediate useability
and
-- lower overall power consumption
"NEC's D-Series storage products meet all of these customer demands," said
Greg Morris, CEO of RAID Inc. "As more of our clients -- particularly
those requiring support for scalable SATA drive solutions -- ask for these
features, NEC D-Series fills a gap in our product line. Also with
D-Series, we can start customers at the specific capacity level required
for their immediate needs and expand one hard disk drive at a time to over
1.5 petabytes -- seamlessly and non-disruptively. We believe that for our
customers, NEC D-Series provides the best data integrity with the best
performance at the best price."
The D-Series storage will be offered as RAID Inc.'s newest addition to the
company's suite of building block product families. It can be purchased
individually or in conjunction with other RAID Inc. products to solve
customers' needs in the most demanding data-storage environments. All
products are tested and put through a burn-in/staging process which ensures
customers will receive a solution designed to function as specified in
their unique environment.
"Leveraging OEM and channel relationships are key to any storage vendor's
success in the marketplace," said Stanley Zaffos, research vice president,
IT Infrastructure and Operations, Gartner. "Vendors using OEM
relationships for some or all of their product portfolio need to
demonstrate a long-term ability to manage OEM relationships and deliver
identifiable value to their customers in order to succeed."
"NEC's growth strategy involves building strong relationships with the top
OEMs in a vertical market," said Karen Dutch, vice president of Advanced
Storage Products, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America. "With
RAID Inc., we now have extended reach into the HPC and government markets
through a trusted advisor who delivers strong technical expertise and
support infrastructure to their customers."
NEC's D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage brings together the best
attributes of modular storage and enterprise-class arrays. The D-Series
products offer the scalability, performance, capacity and availability of a
high-end enterprise storage solution without the initial high cost.
Additionally, the D-Series storage line includes key capabilities that make
the products ideally suited for HPC and government applications, including:
-- SATA read verification to detect silent read errors that other arrays
do not
-- RAID types for extra reliability including Triple Mirror and RAID-3
Double Parity non-disruptive capacity scaling from 3 up to 144 disk drives
with the ability to add one disk at a time to existing RAID groups
-- automated physical resource allocation to balance workloads along with
SAS/SATA intermix to map storage ability to the appropriate application
tier
-- NEC's patented Phoenix self-healing technology to reduce the number of
hard disk drive rebuilds by up to 50 percent and
-- MAID technology for reduced power consumption.
The D-Series can start as small as 219GB and scale to over 1.5PB -- all
non-disruptively -- and supports a mix of SAS and SATA hard disk drives and
a wide range of RAID configurations. D-Series arrays also offer the full
range of enterprise software options, including replication, snapshots,
energy conservation and compliance.
About RAID Incorporated
Since 1994 RAID Inc. has provided true 100% customized storage solutions
that best meet the unique requirements of HPC centers, corporations,
government entities and educational institutions worldwide. From grid
computing to supercomputing to the cockpit of a fighter jet, RAID Inc.
ensures the availability of critical digital content in real-time, all the
time. The company guarantees this with the "RAID Approach" the industry's
only concierge service and support model that assures the highest level of
personalized support and resolution to any issue. StorageWatch® the
industry's only real time monitoring and managed storage service offering
which lowers total cost of ownership while increasing data availability was
developed as part of the" RAID Approach" to better serve its customers.
RAID Inc.'s guaranteed "customer first" approach has made them an industry
leader in true 100% customized storage and the best service and support.
For more information about RAID Inc. visit www.raidInc.com or call
800-330-7335.
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,
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