NEC COMPLETES CERTIFICATION OF VIXEL 9200 2GB/S SWITCH FOR ITS ISTORAGE SERIES.Vixel Corporation (Nasdaq:VIXL VIXL Video Cross Links VIXL Video Image Cross Link ), a provider of storage networking products and technologies, announced recently that 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. Corporation's File Division has completed its certification of Vixel's 9200 16-port 2G/s switch for its full line of iStorage solutions. "This certification reinforces our Company's long-standing relationship with NEC's File Division," said Beth White, Vice President of Marketing for Vixel Corporation. "NEC was one of our earliest Beta partners for the 9000 Series 2 gigabit product line and they have now completed the extensive due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. that, as a world-class storage provider, is critical to continued customer confidence in their solutions." NEC's iStorage platform is made up of a suite of powerful data storage and management products configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: into three series, the S1100, S2100 and S4100 Series, which provide mission critical, centrally managed storage solutions for low, mid-range and high-end applications, respectively. The S4100, for example, is used in high-end applications for enterprise customers requiring as much as 31 terabytes of capacity. At present, NEC Workstations and Servers Division is shipping Vixel's model 2100 with its low-end iStorage 1000 series in a Clustering solution. The NEC iStorage Series can be configured for numerous storage applications, including Server Clustering See clustering. , On-line Non-stop Back-up, Disaster Recovery and Dynamic Data Replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. . "With the iStorage platform, NEC is able to offer storage solutions to a variety of customer types, all of which meet their 24 X 7,365 day a year availability requirements," says Yasuhisa Watanabe, Assistant General Manager of NEC System File Products Division. "After extensive testing by NEC System File Products Division, Vixel's 9200 switch has met those requirements as well and is now certified See certification. with our iStorage Series solutions. We have enjoyed a productive partnership with Vixel and we look forward to continued collaboration as we provide new and exciting solutions to our growing base of storage customers." |
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