NEC All Flash Array Makes SPC-1™ Top 10 With over 605K IOPS

Irving, Texas March 22, 2016 - NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, managed services and biometric solutions, today announced that its M710F SAN Storage System achieved top ten performance with a new SPC-1 Result[1] measuring a number of factors including IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). The top ten SPC-1 list is found at SPC-1 top 10.

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a vendor-neutral, industry standards body focused on the storage industry. SPC-1 Results provide a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and verifiable. The SPC-1 Benchmark is designed to be vendor/platform independent and is applicable across a broad range of storage configuration and topologies.

"We are very pleased to see our M710F all flash storage solution achieve this significant accomplishment in an independent benchmark executed by such a credible organization, "said Hide Senta, VP of strategic business, NEC Corporation of America. "This validates our market success and customer adoption of M-Series. We consistently work to improve M-Series with innovative enhancements to maintain a leadership position in the storage category as evidenced by our all flash array which augments our existing native and hybrid storage offers."

The Mx10 Series provides a complete range of SAN storage options for the price and performance needs of every environment. The M110 is the optimal entry-level system for businesses that need affordable SAN storage. The M310 and M510 offer excellent scalability and performance for low-end to mid-tier and emerging enterprise businesses. The M710 provides more than 3PB of capacity and significant performance resources for demanding midrange to high-end enterprise and cloud computing environments. The M310F and M710F high-performance all flash arrays provide the performance needed for critical applications.

"We work with NEC because they are a reliable partner and deliver the performance and function we need" said Justin Cameron executive vice president & chief operating officer, NetServe365. "NEC provides organizations with high function solutions that align with dynamic business needs and budgets."

[1] The SPC-1 Executive Summary and Full Disclosure Report for the M710F is available at http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_active/#a00170

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