NEC brings fault tolerance to virtualised environments

The company is aiming its launch at data centre and business infrastructure virtualisation projects requiring the highest levels of availability. “As companies look to virtualise their infrastructure to improve asset utilisation, reduce energy consumption, cut costs and shorten time-to-market for new applications, consideration must be given to the reliability and uptime of the underlying hardware platform,” insists Arnaud Gardin, servers and solutions marketing manager, NEC Computers. “NEC is offering an ideal solution to address those considerations with this development.” That solution is essentially a bundled offering, bringing together the scalability, flexibility and performance of VMware Infrastructure with NEC’s 99.999% uptime reliability. Fault Tolerant servers allow a system to continue operating in the event of the failure of some components by providing multiple identical instances throughout CPU and main memory.