NEC originally stood for the Nippon Electric Company. They have been around in various forms since 1898. The company originally made telephones and telephone switches, which means they’ve been in the communications industry for well over a century, which in itself is a very impressive record. They are a leader in semiconductor technology, optical communication and business class hardware. NEC is now a Global Fortune 500 company, with over 154 000 employees in divisions all over the world, including the NEC Corporation of America. This corporation has been around since 2006 and merges several American operations under one heading and specializes producing the NEC server line as well as visual displays, IP-based voice and data transmission solutions, high-speed optical networking and microwave communications.
At GoodHost, we spend a lot of time talking about running serves, hosting packages and solutions, communications protocols , operating systems and scripting languages: in short, we’re interested in everything that allows you to do anything with a server. It’s possible that we don’t pay enough attention to the serves themselves, in the physical sense. Whether you want to get the hardware together for the purposes of your own hosting operations or enterprise data storage, or you just want to know what kind of technology a host will use to provide you with service, it is worth knowing a little about the hardware involved in the hosting process. NEC servers are only one of many possibilities, but it is a name brand that you will see often enough.
A server is, essentially, and computer that functions to provide a service that can be access by other machines through a network. A personal computer can, in that sense, be used as a server and, in fact, often is. You wouldn’t want to setup a hosting company built on PCs, however. Professional servers are designed from the ground up to be ideal for their specific purposes. The main areas focused on for the purposes of server development is reliability, as units will often be left to operate unattended for extended periods of time. Redundant power supplies, network adapters and storage devices are, therefore, essential components of a good server.
NEC offers several lines of servers made for specific purposes. Their 5800/100 Series is the Enterprise-level product designed to work with Windows Server 2008 and feature the new Itanium process which is brining 64-bit computing into the mainstream.
The Express 5800/320F series specializes in fault tolerance technology, which in eliminating as much downtime as possible from operation. Many components are hot-swappable and the system as a whole boasts the ability to promise 99.999% system uptime.
Other server models include the SIGMABLADE and Rack versions of the company’s main server lines. The major differences between these system models is their physical setup. Blade and Rack servers are different ways of consolidating modular server systems for the purpose of maintaining expanding server farms in limited building space.
The 3800/100 Tower Server series is the companies more modest line of which aims at providing small business with the technology to meet their internal networking needs.
The choice of system will depend largely on how advanced your organization’s computing needs are, but NEC servers, in one form or another, will be right for you whether your purposes are in line with those of a small business or extend to requiring High Power Computing solutions.
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