NEC Express5800/340Hb-R manual Key Features, Perfect For Hosting Microsoft Virtual Server

With 4 CPUs per blade, the Express5800/340Hb-R allows for no single point of failure, zero switchover time, and single software image.

Health Care. The need for immediate and reliable access to patient records, critical data, and institutional information makes this solution a must for health care organizations.

Retail. Downtime in the retail environment often results in lost sales. With this full fault tolerant server, sales and inventory information are always readily available.

Pharmaceutical. Development laboratories must keep track of new and existing tests that often span over weeks. Any downtime in the process results in them having to throw away millions of dollars worth of product and wasted time. Thus, a full fault tolerant solution keeps entire batches of modeling data from ever being lost.

Government. Huge databases of criminal records, driving records, disasters, and other types of information are instantly available with the NEC Four-Way Fault Tolerant server.

Utilities. A single server going down can cause a cascading effect and create an energy disaster much like what caused the largest blackout in the history of North America in August 2003. With this NEC solution, you have full fault tolerance and complete hardware redundancy to prevent this from happening.

PERFECT FOR HOSTING MICROSOFT® VIRTUAL SERVER

NEC’s Four-Way High Availability Fault Tolerant server provides a true server virtualization solution, with both hardware and software—making this the ideal platform for hosting Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. With the ability to support Microsoft Virtual Server, and most Windows® applications. The high-performance configuration provides the computing power to support multiple operating systems and applications stacks in a fully fault tolerant environment— without sacrificing performance.

A GREAT RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT

The Express5800/340Hb-R High Availability Fault Tolerant server eliminates so many of the costs associated with running enterprise class applications.

“The high-availability segment will grow at a 13% compound annual growth rate, which is twice as fast as the total server market. The Windows segment of the high-availability market is growing at 39% from 9% of the total to an expected 28% by 2006”— IDC*

Multiple servers are no longer required, substantially reducing hardware costs. The multiple software licenses required in clustering solutions are now reduced to just one. All this will lead to a dramatic reduction in your administrative time and cost. With NEC's Express5800/340Hb-R Four-Way Fault Tolerant server you will a see dramatic decrease in your costs for hardware, software and maintenance. And most importantly, mission critical applications are not impacted.

KEY FEATURES

•Full fault tolerance for enterprise class applications

•Provides up to 99.999% application uptime

•Ideal for server virtualization and server consolidation

•Powerful performance for data center applications

•Saves on hardware, software and maintenance costs

•Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition

•Supports Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

*Market research by IDC, April 2003