NEC FT High-availability servers bring true fault-tolerance to virtualization along with a downtime of under 6 minutes per year. We leverage virtualization-ready Intel® Xeon® architecture to eliminate complex clusters and external shared storage to achieve 99.999% availability. Read how NEC Intel® Xeon® Fault-tolerant (FT) Express 5800 can lead to a 50% reduction in lifecycle cost compared to SAN-servers running on VMware fault-tolerant software https://www.necam.com/servers/ft/request/WhitePaper.cfm

1. With increased performance at dramatic cost savings, virtualization has permanently changed enterprise computing. We’ve gained
vertical scalability with resource pooling, HPC and cloud computing on a massive scale. But virtualization has not solved all server
performance challenges. For many mission-critical workloads, guaranteed uptime from hardware-based fault tolerance is required.
NEC fault tolerant (FT) servers take five nines of availability to the next level with support for the leading server virtualization
environments. Leveraging the Intel®
Xeon®
architecture, the NEC Express5800 FT servers bring true fault tolerance to virtualization while
eliminating complex clusters and external shared storage.
Even further, NEC provides hardware-based fault tolerance at 50% lower total cost of ownership1
. NEC has eliminated the need to build
complex clusters by engineering resiliency and redundancy into a chassis that offers 99.999% availability2
.
Five nines, that is possibly just five and a quarter minutes of downtime per year! NEC accomplishes this with CPU ‘lockstep’
technology that offers immediate failover and server virtualization protection. Resynchronization is transparent and automatic.
And this extreme fault tolerance requires no additional software or configuration hassles.
Leveraging the virtualization-ready architecture of Intel Xeon, the NEC Express5800 FT servers are optimized for virtualization platforms
such as VMware vSphere®
, which is broadly adopted for scaling hosting environments at reduced cost, and Microsoft®
Hyper-V™
, which
is popular for scaling mission-critical data center workloads.
Just five and a quarter minutes of downtime per year
Virtualization has changed enterprise computing, for good
The NEC Express5800
Simply Affordable
Availability
Virtual Server Environments
99.999%
for

2. Supports the leading virtualization
software environments including
Microsoft®
Hyper-V™
and VMware vSphere®
Brings operational simplicity;
eliminates clusters and
costly SAN-based storage
Leverages Intel®
Xeon®
architecture
to achieve continuous availability
Built-in Fault
Tolerance
CPU
Lockstep
Has your organization benefited from virtualization while maintaining high availability? How does your IT organization deal with the
diminished productivity and application downtime from IT outages? It’s time to learn more about how NEC and Intel’s breakthrough
solutions answer these questions. It’s time to learn about the NEC Express5800 FT servers with innovative CPU lockstep technology for
superior fault-tolerance and price performance. It’s time for simply affordable 99.999% availability for virtual server environments.
Learn more from the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab Validation Report on the NEC Express5800 FT servers
1. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
2. Based on NEC Corporation Testing
It’s time to build high availability into your virtualized infrastructure
Intel Xeon and NEC bring both extreme reliability and operational simplicity
This tight integration of Intel Xeon architecture and NEC hardware systems design means enterprises can avoid complex clusters,
costly SAN-based storage, and separate management consoles for hardware, software and storage.
NEC Express5800 FT servers help enterprise IT conserve time with simplified deployment and money with 50% reduction in lifecycle
cost and no additional software licensing fees. And, the simplicity of zero-touch reliability frees IT staffs from cluster disasters.
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