Are you facing storage problems? Such as:

  • Storage operation costs are too high.
  • More scalable, high-performance storage is needed.
  • Backup operation causes interruption of service.
  • Worried that an earthquake or fire may cause disruption of the system.

SAN, NAS, disaster recovery, non-disruptive backup, and more

Accelerating deployment of broadband Internet and IT in business has been rapidly driving corporations toward global business collaboration with partners all over the world. Needless to say, the amount of accumulated data in a company is exploding. In this day and age, for corporations to strengthen their competitiveness, they have to find out how to strategically leverage the growing data.

NEC Storage provides the answer for your new storage strategy with a wide array of products, including NEC Storage D/E series of storage products for storage area networks and NEC Storage NAS Series for network-attached storage.

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VALUMO--Platform technology that supports the evolution of open mission-critical systems

VALUMO is a platform technology that improves system reliability, availability and operability and supports more flexible system implementation and operation in the increasingly complex and diversifying system environment for businesses. For example, "Phoenix technology" and "Storage pool & resource management" for NEC Storage D/E series have been created based on the "Autonomy" and "Virtualization" features of VALUMO. Furthermore, building on the synchronous/asynchronous data replication function of NEC Storage using the "Distribution" feature of VALUMO, NEC will develop Hub and Net distributed computing with in-city/between-cities cluster functions to support the evolution of open mission-critical systems.

About SAN (Storage Area Network)

A Storage Area Network is a networking technology that interconnects and uses multiple storage devices and servers via a dedicated network. Because SAN does not rely on any existing networks, it enables efficient operation using fast access.

Advantages

  • Free access between each server and storage via a dedicated network
  • Allows fast data transfer and backup by bypassing a server

Issue

  • Difficult heterogeneous connectivity
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About NAS (Network Attached Storage)

Network Attached Storage connects directly to an existing network for use. It is easy to implement and enables access to files as easily as with conventional file servers regardless of OS (Windows, Unix or others).

Advantages

  • Able to use existing networks
  • Allows file sharing among heterogeneous servers

Issue

  • May affect existing networks
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Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is a measure to protect systems and data against unexpected troubles caused by a disaster such as an earthquake or fire. As growing numbers of mission critical systems running non-stop 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year, this concept becomes increasingly important for any corporate system.

Non-disruptive backup

Because customer services are interrupted during a backup process, the capability to back up data without stopping systems is required of storage.