Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska to Power Its Business with Servers from NEC Solutions America.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif., and OMAHA Omaha, city, United States Omaha (ō`məhä, –hô), city (1990 pop. 335,795), seat of Douglas co., E Nebr., on the west bank of the Missouri River; inc. 1857. , Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 Leading Health Insurance Provider Selects NEC's Intel Itanium 2-based Servers To Streamline Its Operations NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , today announced Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Nebraska has selected NEC's Express5800/1000 series of Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor-based servers to consolidate its existing environment and drive its data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and business intelligence initiatives. Blue Cross and Blue Shield will integrate the Express5800/1000 series into their existing environment which consists of HP, DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) systems. The new systems will be used initially for enterprise data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities, but will allow Blue Cross and Blue Shield to eventually streamline the amount of overall hardware they have in stock. "With more than half a million members supported by a complex computing environment, we required a solution that provided us with the ability to support large numbers of users, ease of system management, and overall system stability," said Steve Grandfield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska's vice president of Information Services See Information Systems. . "It was also important for us to work with a proven leader such as NEC whose superior technology as well as its mainframe expertise will pay dividends through high levels of service in a complex computing environment such as ours." "This is a real validation of NEC's innovation and technology to provide solutions that offer breakthrough levels of performance, reliability and scalability," said Larry Sheffield, senior vice president of the Solutions Platform Group for NEC Solutions America. "We look forward to working with Blue Cross and Blue Shield to integrate our Itanium servers into their existing IT infrastructure and scale their data warehouse to support their ongoing growth." The NEC Express5800/1000 Server Series NEC's Itanium 2 processor-based servers are designed to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise and technical computing applications. In order to maximize the performance of the Itanium 2 Processor, NEC has developed a high-performance chipset and crossbar switch An earlier telephone switch. First used in the late 1930s, it was a mechanical device that used magnets and metal bars (crossbars) to close connections. Crossbar switches have been replaced with electronic switches (large-scale, specialized computer systems). See ESS and DMS. cultivated through the development of NEC's supercomputer and mainframe technology. With these innovations, the 1000 series not only demonstrates high performance, but also realizes high scalability and high reliability. -- High Scalability: Four CPUs are installed in a single cell. The Express1000 series offers models with 2, 4 or 8 cells. These cells are connected via a high-speed crossbar switch. Therefore, with up to 32 CPUs, the 1000 series definitely meets the needs of large-scale applications. -- High Performance: The 1000 series maximizes performance with ccNUMA architecture (Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access). Employing NEC's chipset and low latency, high bandwidth crossbar switch, the 1000 series delivers unrivaled high-speed memory access, thus offering the capability to deliver the utmost application performance. In addition, the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output sub-system utilizes the advanced PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. bus and supports highspeed input and output capability to meet future increases in high-speed I/O demand. -- High Reliability: Each data bus has error detection and single bit error correction. Many hardware components such as the clock, power supply, fan structure and service processor allow redundancy. The CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. memory boards and I/O card hardware are hot-swap compliant. System recovery is possible even at the time of failure achieving extremely high-levels of reliability and availability The NEC Express5800/1000 series provide massive power and scalability on the latest operating systems platforms to ensure the best price/performance and interoperability available. The series offers models that can be configured with 8 to 32 CPUs which access up to 512 gigabytes of shared main memory. Each of these CPUs can be partitioned at the hardware level, enabling each subsystem to operate as an independent system. These servers employ PCI-X for I/O to connect peripheral and network devices and can be configured with up to 112 slots. For more information about NEC's Itanium servers, go to: www.nec64.com. "We are thrilled about the great progress being made in building enterprise solutions for the Itanium 2 processor," said Lisa Graff, director, Itanium Group, Intel Corporation. "Itanium 2 processor-based systems deliver industry-leading performance, business value and choice for data-intensive, business-critical enterprise applications and can power virtually all facets of the data center." About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
About NEC Solutions America NEC Solutions (America), Inc. is a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America. As an affiliate of NEC Corporation (Nasdaq:NIPNY) (FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. : 6701q.1), NEC Solutions America taps into a global resource network to help clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive edge. From mobile enterprise computing systems, biometric security solutions, business intelligence, projector and plasma display solutions, business services management and IT professional services, the expertise is delivered with the personal attention needed to address individual situations. With headquarters in Rancho Cordova, California Rancho Cordova is a city in Sacramento County, California, USA, that incorporated in 2003. The State of California estimates its population at 59,056 as of January 1, 2007 [1] History , NEC Solutions America maintains research, marketing, sales and support facilities throughout the United States. Information regarding NEC Solutions America can be found at www.necsam.com. Editor's Note: Information, prices, and specifications are subject to change without notice. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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