Irving, Texas - November 16, 2016 - NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, networking and biometric solutions,
today announced the ExpressCluster® software integration for NEC's UNIVERGE UM8700 unified messaging application. The UM8700 enables
anytime, anywhere access to voice, Fax and email messages and services across a large number of PC, smartphone and tablet devices via one
familiar user interface - Microsoft Outlook�. ExpressCluster software is an award-winning high availability (HA) and disaster recovery
(DR) software solution that minimizes application system outages from hardware, software, network and site level failures.
NEC's ExpressCluster software enables comprehensive redundancy solutions that can quickly recover UM8700 application services and data
within minutes from hardware and software failures to avoid disruption of access to critical voicemail messages and services. Designed
to protect business critical systems and data, ExpressCluster software is a fully automated redundancy and recovery HA/DR solution that
is versatile, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy in physical, virtual and cloud environments. It is the ideal solution to safeguard
industry-standard applications, operating systems, and virtualization platforms.
AVST, a trusted manufacturer of software-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions, worked with NEC on the development of the
ExpressCluster solution for UM8700.and other products. Hardy Myers, President and CEO of AVST said: "Its a privilege to work with NEC
on a variety of products as they continue to expand their Smart Enterprise portfolio."
ExpressCluster provides simple and cost effective protection of critical UM8700 systems to avoid disruption of critical business activities
and productivity loss. ExpressCluster's best-in-class UM8700 protection and recovery solutions offer:
Synchronous data mirroring for real-time protection and recovery of stored UM8700 database content and messages with no loss
Granular monitoring of UM8700 application services and fully automated failure detection and recovery of applications and data to standby system within minutes without requiring client device reconfiguration
Processor based licensing means no additional licensing cost for adding port licenses to the same UM8700 system
Flexible and minimal hardware requirements support multiple deployment scenarios including running UM8700 Call Server and System Server on the same machine to minimize total solution cost and complexity.
Simple and easy to use web management console providing comprehensive recovery management of target UM8700 systems
Support for local high availability recovery in LAN environment and remote disaster recovery over WAN and virtualized UM8700 systems deployed on on-premise and hosted infrastructure
"NEC is very excited to add the ExpressCluster solution for our UM8700 unified messaging offerings,,"said Ram Menghani, VP of Unified
Communications Products and Support, NEC Corporation of America. "This addition provides our customers an easy to use and fully automated
solution to ensure their critical unified messaging services and data remain available and active 24/7."
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NEC Corporation of America (NEC) is a leading technology integrator providing solutions that improve the way people work and communicate.
NEC delivers integrated Solutions for Society that are aligned with our customers' priorities to create new value for people, businesses
and society, with a special focus on safety, security and efficiency. We deliver one of the industry's strongest and most innovative
portfolios of communications, analytics, security, biometrics and technology solutions that unleash customers' productivity potential.
Through these solutions, NEC combines its best-in-class solutions and technology, and leverages a robust partner ecosystem to solve
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