NEC increases security offerings for fault-tolerant servers

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Oct 2005

NEC Solutions (America) Inc. (necsam.com), a provider of integrated solutions for the enterprise in North America, has enhanced its security offerings on its NEC Express5800/320Lb Fault Tolerant (FT) server platform through a relationship with Avinti Inc. (avinti.com), a provider of e-mail outbreak protection software.

Combining Avinti's e-mail security solution with NEC's FT server provides businesses with the ability to stop unknown and rapidly changing email attacks before damage is incurred.

Through this relationship, Avinti's iSolation Server 2.0 software has been certified to work on the NEC Express5800/320Lb FT platform, enabling NEC the ability to deliver another layer of security protection. Additional customer benefits include increased return on security investments through improved email server uptime, enhanced productivity and a reduction in server downtime virus attacks."

The NEC ExpressS 800/3 20Lb FT platform is a server system that has up to 99.999 percent increased uptime, with no single point of failure. Paired with Avinti's iSolation Server software, which supports multiple servers to sustain the volume of one collective domain, the solution is twice as secure -against both malicious e-mail attacks, and against hardware failure, as the system offers high availability and is redundant in nature.

NEC's ExpressS 800/320Lb FT server combines Intel's Xeon processors with NEC's next-generation fault tolerant technology to provide optimal performance in a small footprint. Featuring Dual Modular Redundancy (DMR) and hot-swappable components, NEC's FT servers offer one of the highest levels of system availability for computing environments.

NEC's Express5800/320Lb FT platform with the enhanced Avinti e-mail security software is available now through NEC Solution America and Avinti channel partners worldwide.