NEC Shows Off Super Storage Scalability

May 10, 2007: NEC has rolled out its latest D-Series storage systems, claiming it is setting a new standard for massive scalability, performance and availability.

NEC claims that through the D-Series storage arrays, enterprises of all sizes can scale storage from 219GB to 1.152PB without disruption, to the system or their budgets.

Interestingly, upgrades that can be made while systems are online, thanks largely to the systems design, which NEC says is the first to unify the characteristics of mid-range modular and enterprise storage architectures in a single system.

The D-Series also enables enterprises to scale from 2GB to 128GB cache, from four to sixty-four 4 GB-per-second fibre channels, and from three to 1,156 disk drives.

“Customers across a broad range of industries are experiencing tremendous growth in the storage capacity and performance needed to support a successful business,” said Brad Nisbet, program manager for IDC Storage Systems.

“Storage systems like the D-Series from NEC that allow customers to non-disruptively scale capacity, performance, connectivity and availability across a broad range of entry-points can provide the flexibility and investment protection that customers are seeking.”

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