NEC SAN Storage Helps Customer Improve Performance and Scale as it Grows

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Storage Guardian and NEC ramped up to 100TB of data storage in 2011.

Irving, TX, November 30, 2011 - (PressReleasePoint) - NEC Corporation of America ( NEC ), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication and IT solutions, announced its NEC D-Series SAN Storage has enabled Storage Guardian to keep up with unparalleled growth of data and increasing customer demands. Using NEC's D-series SAN storage in Storage Guardian's online and cloud backup solutions for small and medium-sized businesses has allowed performance to increase as it scaled to 100 TB from 20 TB in the past year.

"Customers are beginning to take backup storage more seriously, realizing they need professional services to properly manage it," said Omry Farajun, Storage Guardian's founder and president. "As a result, Storage Guardian has grown to over 2,000 customers and needed to rapidly increase our storage capacity."
 
To maintain momentum, Storage Guardian needed a storage vendor that could help the company continue to grow by streamlining its processes, reducing complexity and scaling storage purchases based on demand. Storage Guardian turned to West Coast Technology, an authorized NEC dealer, to help keep up with customer demand. The NEC D-Series SAN Storage (D4) and Linux® 64-bit OS solution provides high availability, is scalable and delivers the 100 TB and rising capacity Storage Guardian requires.
 
"With support from West Coast Technology, we implemented NEC's platform because of the superior quality of its components, vibration and methodology," said Farajun. "NEC's proprietary algorithm allows the solution to perform better as it scales, so the more NEC storage we used, the faster Storage Guardian became. This has helped us see a return on our investment in only a short time."
 
The solution's advanced features and enterprise-class software including snapshots, replication, performance management, multi-pathing, failover, energy conservation, and virtual storage partitioning for Quality of Service--deliver the performance and flexibility the company needs to grow on-demand.
 
"One of the many features that attracted Storage Guardian to NEC was the fact that we allowed them to add capacity as they grew," said Mike Mitsch, vice president, IT Platforms for NEC. "High availability and scalability are the hallmarks of NEC's SAN storage, which helped Storage Guardian, improve their cash flow, while remaining competitive and agile."
 
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About Storage Guardian
Storage Guardian delivers business continuity protection and information lifecycle management. Storage Guardian is used by small and midsize businesses, enterprises, and multiple-platform LAN computing environments that want to safeguard their critical business data in a secure, off-site location. Its remote backup service is the culmination of a decade of intense research and software development and represents a superior alternative to tape-based data recovery systems. All Storage Guardian's solutions are based on televaulting technology from Asigra, a recognized leader in enterprise online backup. The company is also developing a select network of authorized VARs to service the off-site backup and fast data recovery needs of companies located throughout North America. For more, visit www.storageguardian.com and follow Storage Guardian on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter @storageguardian.
 
About West Coast Technologies (WCT)
A leader in network storage technology, WCT started implementing Storage Area Networks (SAN) in 2001. WCT's consulting and professional services have developed and evolved, winning numerous awards. WCT's focus is Storage, from backing up a departmental server, to designing, implementation and training on a complete Enterprise Data Center - Storage Area Network. For more information, visit www.wct.com .
 
Press Contact: John Wise, NEC Corporation of America, (214) 262-6384, john.wise@necam.com

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