Global Storage Leader NEC Eliminates Risks With Bold 30-Day Guarantee

No Hassle, No Risk, No Questions; NEC Will Cover De-Installation, Return Freight
AND Data Migration Off System if Customer Not Satisfied
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity
management solutions, is rolling out a bold new storage sales initiative in
North America. NEC is known globally as a top five storage vendor with more than
50 years of delivering highly reliable, scalable, efficient storage solutions
that provide the utmost value. The company is seeking to aggressively expand
their North American market share by offering a 30-day, no questions asked,
unconditional satisfaction guarantee to first time customers of NEC D-Series
Storage. In this economic climate, customers are seeking innovative alternatives
to improve efficiencies and meet growing data storage needs through unfamiliar
vendors. The guarantee allows customers to make a new choice for an established
innovator they may not already know while eliminating the risk.

"Contrary to what people often assume, storage is a strategic purchase.
Customers feel comfortable buying from whom they know and trust," said Arun
Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group. "This makes it difficult
to gain traction in new regions - even for vendors established as global
leaders, like NEC. Unless, like NEC, they offer a 30 day guarantee that is truly
unconditional and eliminates all risk. It is rare for a vendor to stand behind
its storage like NEC is doing now. This guarantee allows customers to try the
D-Series without reservation."

The 30-day money-back* guarantee applies to all new customers across North
America who purchase any of NEC D-Series SAN storage products through September
30, 2009. If for any reason or no reason at all, the customer decides they want
to return the product, NEC will handle the entire process and cost of
de-installation, return shipping, and migrating the data off the system.

"In my thirty years in the North American storage market, I can`t recall such an
indomitable offer," said Dan Diltz, vice president, Advanced Storage Products
Division, NEC Corporation of America. "We are just that confident in our
product! Our customers tell us we provide the most productive value with the
functionality they need at a price they can afford."

NEC Distributors, Resellers Enthusiastic

Jeff Burgess, president, Burgess Computer Decisions, Inc., stated, "This is a
great promotion by NEC and ties in fabulously with their enterprise servers that
we have been supplying for the video security marketplace. Many of those
opportunities require large amounts of external storage for both SAS and SATA
archival data. In addition, we have already experienced an increase in interest
from clients looking to try NEC D-Series storage for consolidation and
virtualization."

John Lane, vice president of business development, Logical Front, LLC, enthused,
"This 'no risk' money-back guarantee is a daring idea that proves NEC has a lot
of confidence in their solutions. Especially in this economy, Logical Front has
many customers who are trying to do more with less budget and want to leverage
innovative solutions for improved efficiencies - without risking investment in
startup technology that may not evolve or last. Partnered with a global storage
leader like NEC, Logical Front can offer our customers innovation, value, and
financing to meet their business needs."

Tim Franks, director of business development, MCE, noted, "For more than 30
years, MCE customers have relied on us to bring them the best in IT
infrastructure. We`ve never seen an unconditional guarantee like this - where
the vendor is willing to stand behind their product to the point of handling the
whole process and cost of de-installation, return shipping, and migrating data
off the system if the customer isn`t happy. It aligns perfectly with MCE`s
commitment to our customers to delivering the best value in solutions and
service."

Peter J. Prieto, president, nDataStor, Inc., added, "NEC D-Series storage has
always been a solid solution because of the system's dependability and
performance. With organizations facing shrinking budgets and increased data
storage requirements, this iron-clad guarantee will help nDataStor introduce our
customers to the value of NEC."

Steve Ichinaga, senior vice president and general manager, Systems Integration
at SYNNEX Corporation, said, "Eliminating the perception of risk is a smart move
from NEC. Since our core customer set is the SMB, we have a lot of customers who
are trying to do more with a smaller budget and want to try different innovative
solutions that meet their critical business needs. NEC is an established vendor
that provides the innovation, financing, and value organizations need to address
data growth and this `no risk` money-back guarantee is proof."

Dependability, Scalability, Efficiency Equal High Value

NEC's D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage products include numerous unique
features that collectively deliver superior dependability, scalability and
efficiency for high value and productivity:

* Exceptional dependability without data corruption. NEC D-Series SAN storage
products provide protection from "silent data corruption" that is uncaught in 1
in 90 SATA drives. This feature improves data integrity for both SATA and SAS
drives, resulting in fewer application errors and less data corruption.
* Resilient, self healing storage with complete redundancy. NEC`s patented
Phoenix technology reduces RAID rebuilds by 30 to 50 percent and detects
correctable disk drive failures.
* Remarkable non-disruptive scalability. NEC D-Series arrays can scale from 3 to
1,536 drives and up to 128 GB cache due to the nodal architecture and neural
cache communication.
* Outstanding efficiency. The ability to mix SAS and SATA drives, turn drives
off when they are not in use, and dynamically expand as little as one drive at a
time adding only the capacity needed when it is needed are just a few of NEC
D-Series` efficiency features. In addition, NEC D-Series includes intuitive
management for virtual storage partitioning and dynamic pooling to minimize IT
management tasks.

NEC`s D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage arrays provide highly resilient and
easily scalable SAN storage without sacrificing performance and flexibility. The
D-Series complete management suite includes virtual array partitioning,
snapshots, replication, performance management, multipathing, failover,
compliance, and energy conservation.

For customers with virtualization, consolidation or storage capacity growth
initiatives, NEC D-Series SAN Storage is ideal. NEC D-Series SAN storage is part
of NEC`s Dynamic IT Infrastructure - a solution that includes servers, storage,
virtual desktop solutions, and system software which are smart, flexible,
adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously evolving. Along with
NEC`s broad range of services - the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides an
ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity and is
ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in solutions for physical
security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and entertainment,
education, high performance computing, and business. This type of infrastructure
allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and
growing business needs in an efficient manner.

To learn more, new customers incented by the 30-day guarantee can call
866-632-3226 or email d-series@necam.com. For more information about NEC
D-series, visit http://www.necam.com/Storage/D-Series, or NEC`s Dynamic IT
infrastructure, visit www.necam.com/DynamicIT.

About NEC Corporation of America

NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and
identity management solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation
of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation
of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and
storage solutions, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave
radio communications to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema
solutions. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise
clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit
http://www.necam.com.

* Original shipping and installation services not included as part of
"money-back" guarantee.

NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other
product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective
owners. © 2009 NEC Corporation of America.

Kulesa Faul, Inc. for NEC Corporation of America
Angelique Faul, 513-233-2994
angelique@kulesafaul.com

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