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SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced the launch of new Fault Tolerant (FT) servers, the NEC Express5800/320Fd-MR mid-range server and the NECExpress5800/320Fd-LR entry-level server. These latest NEC Express5800 FT servers featuring improved processing power and maintainability are designed to simplify server consolidation by supporting virtual operating systems for the first time.

NEC’s Fault Tolerant servers deliver exceptional uptime through dual modular hardware redundancy. The main hardware components, including CPU and memory, are replicated to run in lockstep – the two redundant modules process the same instructions at the same time. If any hardware component fails in one module, the faulty component is isolated automatically and processing continues uninterrupted through the other module without downtime or data loss.

“The concept of fault tolerant redundancy in hardware components is not new in the industry,” said Marc Hafner, vice president of departmental servers, IT Platform Group, NEC Corporation of America. “However, NEC has been the leading manufacturer of Xeon-based fault tolerant servers since they were first introduced in 2000.”

The Express5800/320Fd-MR and Express5800/320Fd-LR feature Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, achieving a 20% performance gain over the existing 320Fc-MR model, utilizing the new Intel 5400 Series Xeon processors. Other enhancements have been made in order to support additional operating systems capabilities, such as the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, allowing higher levels of main memory to be fully utilized.

Very cool, the more innovation of the blade/server platform the more choice and opportunities for the end user which has to be a good thing for the platforms and the industry, NEC bringing out new fault tolerance servers has to be a welcome development. I’m off to read up more about them.

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