Middle East, 8th January 2009: NEC Computers S.A.S., a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, announces the release of new, innovative ready-to-use solutions, to meet the increasing demand by companies for high performance solutions which respect the environment.
 
The environment: a major challenge for business
 
In a difficult economic climate, where budgetary constraints are increasing and where performance demands are vital, it's easy to see how business interests and environmentally friendly practices can converge, with companies seeking to: 

  • Significantly reduce energy bills

  • Minimise storage space

  • Improve of workstation ergonomics

  • Optimised the use of physical and software resources

  • Lower administration costs

New working practices: to remain competitive
In order to remain competitive, it is now imperative that new working practices are adopted. With Web conferencing and remote working becoming commonplace; the era of expensive, energy consuming travel is now over. To perform well, companies must give their employees the tools they need to communicate and collaborate effectively. 
 
To meet these challenges, NEC offers an all-in-one solution
Traditionally, companies have needed to call upon different suppliers to obtain a complete unified communications or virtualization solution.
 
Now, benefitting from the synergy between all NEC entities in Europe, NEC Computers is able to integrate all the technologies needed to obtain complete solutions for its clients. They can be adapted to the needs of each SME/SMI, in the public or private sector, regardless of whether the sector is Education, Healthcare, Financial, Services, or Public Authorities, etc....
 
To improve their productivity and therefore focus on their core business NEC offers businesses turnkey solutions aligned along four key approaches:

  • Unified Communications

NEC offers simple solutions which meet every need, while respecting client demands in terms of security and high availability. This packaged, tailored communications solution (Servers, storage, telephony, software suite, professional services), ensures perfect interoperability and overall consistency.
 
The offering is centred on what is termed a Unified Messaging base (Microsoft Exchange 2007), complemented by optional modules which enable the implementation of a complete, turnkey unified communications solution.

  • Continuity of service

NEC is the only producer able to meet its clients' need for global availability, both in terms of local resilience (Servers, storage bay, backup systems, etc.) and geographical resilience (clustering tools, replication software, BRP-BCP, etc.).

NEC's fault tolerant server range offers availability greater than 99.999%, both for core business applications and sensitive virtualised environments.

  • Virtualisation

NEC offers an innovative, fundamental technological solution which allows IT managers to optimise their IT infrastructure, to make it more flexible as well as to adapt to any organisational changes. Also NEC is the only producer able to offer a simple continuous availability solution for virtualised environments, without the need to deploy more complex and expensive cluster type software solutions (which are difficult to justify for local resilience).

  • Visual Computing

With recognised experience, NEC Computers addresses vertical markets with a range of solutions ranging from a simple workstation to graphical rendering farms, associating them with innovative yield and storage calculation solutions, validated by the NEC centre of excellence to operate with all graphical applications available on the market.
 
"For NEC, ascending the value chain and selling innovative solutions is a real strategic change. In the current economic climate, NEC will offer considerable support to companies, not only to reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve their results, but also to be competitive, thanks to the use of powerful environmentally friendly computing", declares Tong Chhor, Executive Director of NEC's Enterprise Computing Business Unit.

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About NEC Computers
A subsidiary of the Japanese NEC Corporation group, NEC Computers offers a complete, innovative range of IT infrastructure solutions (servers, storage, software) and client workstations (desktop and notebook computers), as well as a wide range of professional services.
 
NEC Computers operates in professional markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.  Its industrial and technological site in Angers (France) is unique in Europe, designing and producing customised solutions for the public and private sector.

The Japanese NEC group is a world leader in Information Technology, Networks and Electronic Components, with a turnover of 39 billion dollars (figures as at 31/03/2007) and employs more than 150,000 people worldwide.
 
As demonstrated by its slogan "Empowered by Innovation", the NEC Group devotes more than 6.5% of its turnover to Research and Development, from bio plastics to super computers, putting technological innovation at its clients' service.

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