NEC HYDRAstor® HS Series Wins Top 2015 Award at 10th Annual Hot Companies and Best Product Awards in Storage Solutions

NEC’s High Performance Grid Storage System Takes Gold Award for Second Consecutive Year at Network Products Guide’s IT Best Products Event

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading technology integrator of advanced IT, communications and networking solutions, today announced that its HYDRAstor HS Series V4.2 deduplication storage solution won the Gold Award in the Storage Solutions category of Network Products Guide 10th Annual 2015 Hot Companies and Best Product Awards. These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognition in every facet of the IT industry. Winners were honored June 29 during the annual dinner and presentations in San Francisco.

NEC's HYDRAstor solution is a scale-out grid storage platform with inline global deduplication, solving present and future challenges for long-term data. The HYDRAstor grid architecture provides scalability of both performance and capacity, capacity optimization, advanced erasure-coded data protection, high availability with node-level resiliency, and in-place technology refresh with new generations of technology. The 4.2 release added several significant enhancements, including Deduped Transfer, which increased HYDRAstor’s market leading maximum performance by 4-6x and reduced network bandwidth consumption.

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology. The HYDRAstor HS Series (version 4.2) storage solution was recognized as the Storage Solutions Gold Award winner for its market-leading scale-out performance, advanced enterprise functionality, and investment protection.

"We are honored to have HYDRAstor once again be recognized for the top award in the storage solutions category," said Gideon Senderov, director of Advanced Storage, NEC Corporation of America. "With the 4.2 release, HYDRAstor further extended its lead as the top performance solution available in the market. Our selection as the best storage solution of the year is a testament to our continued efforts to deliver further innovations and enhancements, extending the value we deliver to our customers."

Winners listed:http://www.networkproductsguide.com/world/For more information about HYDRAstor solutions, visit www.necam.com/HYDRAstor/.

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