Open Systems & Mainframe Storage

NEC D-Series Storage

	NEC is one of the world's largest IT technology companies and has been developing storage products for well over four decades. In line with providing some of the best technologies available, NEC's objective is to provide business solutions. These business solutions are oriented toward making our customers more productive, more competitive in their business and enabling them to realize exceptional economies including reducing power consumption. NEC's storage products can be deployed easily in any SAN environment, and are tested for interoperability with other storage manufacturers and supporting peripherals devices.

NEC's D-Series of Enterprise Modular Storage are designed to provide enterprise performance, connectivity, capacity and availability without the high initial cost of high end enterprise systems. The D-Series can start as small as one terabyte or less and scale to over 1.1 petabytes, all non-disruptively. In addition performance and connectivity scalability is linear making sure that business response is maintained. Utilizing innovative technologies the D-Series allows availability to scale dependent upon the criticality of the applications. New feature like RAID Triple Mirror and RAID 3 double parity address availability while maintaining performance. These and other aspects of the NEC D-Series make NEC Enterprise Modular Arrays not only a good investment but a strategic one.

NEC has been demonstrating its Storage Excellence for almost 50 years as a leader in manufacturing for both branded as well as an OEM provider of enterprise storage systems. With the D-Series of Enterprise Modular Arrays NEC continues to maintain a leadership position in developing and deploying advanced technologies to address the storage requirements of the industry. The D-Series offers many innovative features that create a wealth of benefits for customers that require performance, availability and non-disruptive scalability.

In addition, the entire storage offering addresses customer requirements for ease of use, low total cost of ownership, fully-tested solutions, and smoothly integrated hardware and software. NEC's storage products are designed to be deployed easily in any SAN environment, and are tested for interoperability with other storage manufacturers and supporting peripherals devices.

Technology
NEC's storage products help customers manage data more effectively, efficiently and reduce complexity. The D-Series of Enterprise Modular Storage (EMS) is built on NEC's proven advanced storage technologies. The D Series can scale from 219GB up to 1.152 PB's of capacity. Unlike previous technologies where scalability required moving from one model or architecture to another the D-Series provides a seamless and scalable path for all aspects of the storage system. These include capacity, connectivity performance as well as availability. What the NEC D-Series offers is a single and unified storage architecture that addresses the requirements of small enterprises to the largest enterprise.

Performance is achieved by utilizing ultra-high speed host fibre channel interfaces, large cache capacity, and high performance SAS high density disk drives. Business continuity is enhanced with the use of resilient RAID 6 double parity technology and RAID TM (triple mirror), which tolerates two simultaneous drive failures to reduce costly downtime. Patented Phoenix Technology automates self-recovery of failed drives by separating them from the RAID group to perform background diagnostics and can reduce the need to do rebuild by 30 to 50 percent. NEC's storage technology offers users incredible scalability and availability at an exceptional total cost of ownership.