NEC HCI

NEC Corporation of America and NEC Enterprise Solutions (EMEA) announced a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution powered by Scale Computing’s HC3 software.

The new platform, NEC HCI, provides a complete virtualised solution in a single appliance, designed for rapid deployment, ease-of-use, scaling, performance and cost effectiveness. 

“As the HCI market continues to expand, we wanted to offer a competitive solution that provides value to our partners and customers,” said Ram Menghani, SVP, NEC Enterprise Communications Technologies, Inc. “Due to Scale Computing’s knowledge and current success in the HCI market, NEC is proud to partner with them to provide a competitive HCI solution that complements our existing technology offerings.“

“We’re excited about this partnership and the launch of NEC HCI in North America and EMEA,” said Dan Pierce, VP of strategic sales, Scale. “NEC Hyperconverged Infrastructure, powered by Scale HC3 software, is the ideal solution for customers requiring ease-of-use and HA with a low TCO.“

Scalability and Availability
NEC HCI is  for SMBs and ROBOs that must support mission critical applications. By using NEC’s D120h high-density server, the platform has the capability of hosting four individual server nodes. This results in a smaller data centre footprint, meaning greater efficiency and reduced infrastructure costs. 

One of the most challenging tasks for IT can be adding capacity to existing infrastructure. With NEC HCI, new appliances can be added into a running cluster within minutes. To scale out resources as needed, different models and capacities can be used together in various combinations. Appliances are also pre-configured with three levels of configurations to meet specific workloads-base, mid-range and power-but can be customised if pre-packed models don’t meet the needs of a customer.

Simplicity and Virtualisation
NEC’s HCI is designed to provide operational simplicity through automation and architecture. Since the software is pre-installed, the customer can add networking information to deploy, supporting NEC’s commitment to customer experience. Additionally, the platform includes the hypervisor with no additional third-party costs or licensing fees, giving customers the ability to lower overall IT management and costs.

NEC’s HCI solution, powered by Scale Computing, will be available within calendar Q2 through NEC’s channel partners.