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Press Release

February 16, 2006
MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) has adopted biometrics technology, effectively raising the bar in its crime prevention and detection. After an evaluation of international crime detection technologies in the market, the PNP has adopted NEC's Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), which is acknowledged as one of the world's most efficient among the category of computerized solutions.

February 14, 2006
Manila, February 14, 2006 - Philippine Seven Corp. (PSC) ended 2005 with sales of P4.5 billion, higher than the 2004 sales of P3.8 billion and the largest per-store sales increase in the last 10 years, after putting in place some operational improvements.

August 24, 2005
Automatic Border Control and Passport Identification
NEC Solutions Asia Pacific showcases its Automatic Border Control and Passport Identification solutions in India for the first time - as part of strategic solutions business expansion in India.


July 6, 2005
ABeam Consulting and Pointsec Mobile Technologies Partnership
Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2006



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NEC Storage S Series (SAN)/ NEC Storage S2500


 

NEC Storage S2500

S2500 is a Midrange disk array device with small space, offering 4Gbps FC host interface and consolidation of FC/SATA disk modules.

  • Having up to 120 FC or SATA modules, the maximum capacity is 37.4TB.
  • EHost interface is FC 1Gbps, 2Gbps or 4Gbps.
  • The RAID-6 technology featured to assure continued operation even if error occur in two hard disks at the same time. This technology greatly enhances the availability of the disk array. It can be used together with the RAID-1 and RAID-5
  • The S2500 not only has a performance-oriented intra-cabinet replication function that duplicates all volumes, but also a snapshot function that stores just the differences in updated data.
  • The S2500 also has a dynamic pool function for flexible storage operations, which allows users to expand or change the local disk capacity without affecting existing data.
  • Compact and energy saving structure, having controller and disk enclosure in 3EIA chassis.

FEATURES
Advanced Function

The S2500 supports SATA disk drives (4GB/ 500GB), which has large capacity and low price as well as FC disk drives. FC and SATA disk drives can be consolidated in the same disk array (*1).

*1 Disk enclosure unit for SATA disk drive is necessary.

Two types of disk drives can be used as follows:

  • FC disk drives: For non-stop operation or mission critical operation which requires high performance.
  • SATA disk drtives: For backup use which requires large capacity with low price.

SATA disk drives are suitable for the following systems which requirelarge capacity with low price, without giving priority to performance.

1. Storage for large capacity data (Web, graphics, R&D, E-mail) including primary use.
2. Disk backup
3. Archive (Tamper proof function is also supported).
4. Replication volume for intra-unit copy (DynamicDataReplication).
5. Snap volume for snap shot (DynamicSnapVolume).

Dynamic Pool Function using RAID-6
Conventionally, the logical disks were managed in units of the physical sets of disks that made up the RAID, so that users who need to expand disk capacities had to install a fixed number of disks whether or not they were all necessary. The new dynamic pool function permits logical disk capacities to be changed dynamically. Physical disks can be added one at a time. The logical disks required can be managed efficiently, and the system is free from physical restrictions.

Introduction of the functions of the dynamic pool

Data Replication
The S2500 provides the NEC Storage DynamicDataReplication function, which creates replicas of specific logical disks in the disk array device, and the NEC Storage RemoteAreaReplication function, which creates replicas of logical disks in a different disk array device. The S2500 also supports the NEC Storage RemoteAreaReplication function with the NEC Storage S2800 disk array device (A separate software program product is required).

Snapshot function
The snapshot function instantly creates a copy (snapshot) of one or several logical disks, allowing for a maximum of 16 generations of backup. Since only the differences in updated data are stored, the disk capacity required is smaller than the capacity for data replication, making a low-cost backup solution possible. (A separate software program product is required).

NEC Storage BaseProduct
This software product includes storage control software for carrying out basic control of NEC Storage S2500 and integrated storage management software, NEC Storage Manager, for carrying out integrated management of the NEC Storage S series including the NEC Storage S2500. This package is required to use the S2500 equipment.

NEC Storage Manager - integrated storage management software
This software provides integrated management of the NEC Storage S series including the S2500.

  • GUI display of the configuration of logical disks and controllers.
  • Monitoring and reporting errors.
  • Collecting performance information on logical disk and controllers, displaying the collected information graphically, and monitoring performance.

Access Control
Access to the logical disks can be set for individual ports or individual hosts. (This requires a separate software program product).

Performance Monitoring
It provides real time displays of information on its performance, load monitoring and storage of statistics (This requires a separate software program product).

Preventive Maintenance
This function prevents the redundancy of the RAID processors from being lost. If it predicts that a disk drive will fail, that disk drive is automatically replaced with a hot spare disk drive, maintaining disk redundancy.

High Performance

4Gbps Host Interface
This unit has 4 ports of fibre channel as host interface. It supports 4Gbps (Max. 400MB/s) as well as 1Gbps/2Gbps.

high performance RAID processors
High performance RAID processors that enable inter-controller communication at 4GB/s are installed to implement the shared memory system. This feature not only enhances the performance, but also helps dynamic load balancing of the host interfaces. The Switch based disk enclosures permits high-speed access to the disk drives being used.

High Availability and High Reliability

RAID-6 Technology
The RAID-6 has a dual parity, which maintains the redundancy in the disk drive system even if one of them fails, allowing operation to continue even if two disk drives fail simultaneously, and increasing the reliability level of the equipment. SATA disk drives can also be dependable with RAID-6 technology.

Scalability

Flexible equipment configuration and high scalability

  • SATA 40GB (7,200rpm), FC 73GB (10,000 rpm 15,000 rpm), FC 147GB (10,000rpm 15,000rpm) FC 300GB (10,000rpm) disk drives can be installed in a mixed configuration in the device, providing flexible configurations to meet a wide variety of needs.
  • Up to seven FC or SATA disk enclosures, each capable of mounting 15 disk drives, can be connected. Maximum capacity of the disk array is 27.6TB with FC HDD only, or 32.7TB with mixture of FC and SATA HDD.
  • 2GB to 4GB per controller for a total of up to 8GB of cache memory, can be mounted on the S2500.

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