IDC Frontier Adopts NEC Server and Storage

NEC Corporation and NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation announced that IDC Frontier, Inc. has adopted NEC’s enterprise-class server and storage as the dynamic infrastructure for its strategic cloud service business.

The new cloud service infrastructure is built on NEC’s Express5800 Scalable HA Server A1160 and NEC SAN (Storage Area Network) Storage for high performance, reliability and scalability.

With support for Microsoft Hyper-V Technology delivering great affinity for Windows operating systems, the infrastructure enables flexible resource control in virtualized environments based on changing operational loads, and allows IDC Frontier to take its cloud service to the next level.

To enable successful cloud service deployment within a limited period of time, NEC has tested the cloud infrastructure under a range of virtualization scenarios and has verified high reliability in vital cloud capabilities, such as compute performance, disaster recovery and data backup with no operational downtime. Leveraging the success of deploying the new infrastructure for IDC Frontier, NEC will promote its reliable and scalable cloud service solution to telecommunications and data center service providers both inside and outside Japan.
Dependable Cloud Service Platform

NEC’s Scalable HA Server is powered by the latest 6-core Intel Xeon Processor, with scalability up to 16 processors, or 96 cores, and delivers mainframe-class reliability. NEC SAN Storage features an iSCSI host interface, delivering excellent scalability and management simplicity for an affordable price. This dynamic IT infrastructure, based on NEC’s enterprise server and storage, builds a reliable, flexible and scalable foundation for cloud computing, virtualization, consolidation and business continuity, allowing IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner.

Optimization through Virtualization
IDC Frontier is running Microsoft Hyper-V Technology on NEC’s servers to optimize server resources. This next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology allows server resources to be added or deleted depending on workloads, and is tuned for a wide range of applications from hosting systems, such as system development and web and e-mail servicing, to business-critical systems including application and database servers.

Redundant System for Business Continuity
The new cloud system is designed to deliver high availability through redundant groups of servers and storage, so that the system continues to operate in the event of hardware failure.