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Toggle Networks Leverages Award-Winning NEC ExpressCluster WAN for New Hosted Business Continuity Service
NEC-Toggle Partnership Delivers Fast, Easy, Affordable Data and Application Protection |
Santa Clara, Calif. – April 24, 2008 – NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of network, IT and identity management solutions, and Toggle Networks are teaming up to deliver a hosted business continuity service for businesses needing a fast, easy and affordable means of meeting business continuity planning (BCP) requirements of data and application protection in the event of disaster. Toggle Networks will leverage NEC’s award-winning ExpressCluster WAN solution as the foundation of their hosted business continuity service.
This innovative service will provide fully equipped synchronous WAN replication and automatic service failover of mission critical servers across geographically distributed locations. In selecting a partner for this hosted service, Toggle Networks sought a software product: |
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based on an open platform;
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delivers synchronous, WAN-level protection;
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offers geo-distributed hosting capability for site-level business continuity capabilities;
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leverages industry-proven hosting infrastructures; and
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provides an affordable, cost-effective, and turnkey solution.
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“We looked at a number of the most common software disaster recovery solutions,” said Ryan Chantler, president of Toggle Networks. “In both performance and feature-to-feature comparisons, there were no real contenders other than NEC’s ExpressCluster WAN.”
Along with their usual free initial business continuity assessment, Toggle Networks will offer a free 60-day trial of the new service.
“We’re excited to have Toggle Networks’ experienced team delivering NEC ExpressCluster in this unique way,” said George Wu, director, Software Business Division, NEC Corporation of America. “We anticipate the affordability of this hosted service will help us reach a broader range of companies needing the benefits of our integrated disaster recovery solution.”
Joint promotional activities will include website promotion, ongoing training, support and marketing. Toggle Networks will demonstrate the capabilities of its new high availability hosting service powered by NEC ExpressCluster WAN in Toggle Networks booth, #22, at the Calgary Storage Networking 2008 show on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre, MacLeod Hall CD.
NEC ExpressCluster software provides integrated application and data protection and recovery on industry standard x86 servers to enable lower cost system recovery within minutes of hardware, software and site failures in LAN and WAN environments. ExpressCluster enables easy-to-deploy and cost-effective continuity solutions for industry standard database, email, and virtualization applications and platforms including Microsoft® SQL, Oracle® DB, IBM DB2®, MySQL®, Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail®, VMware®, Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Windows®, and Linux®. |
About Toggle Networks Inc.
Toggle Networks Inc. is a Calgary, Alberta based company dedicated to protecting businesses from unforeseen interruptions that can seriously hinder or even cripple businesses. Preserving computer network stability while coping with the most disastrous of circumstances, Toggle implements proven computer protection technologies in an innovative business model that makes full disaster avoidance, response and recovery available to any type or size of business.
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 www.necam.com.
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Did You Know:
40 - 45% of businesses fail to resume operations after a major theft or fire.
(Source: Department of Public Safety – Emergency Services & Homeland Security) |
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