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Beating natural disasters with ExpressBeing a channel-driven company, NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for the implementation of the NEC Express-
Cluster software for AV Global
Due to recurring natural disasters and
increasing security threats in India,
business continuity and disaster
management have assumed significant
importance in the enterprise community.
Businesses today are absolutely cautious about
their operations, and they are trying hard to
avoid any downtime in order to prevent any
loss of business opportunity. Hence, corrective
measures need to be taken to ensure
business continuity at all times. Middleware
solutions are fast emerging as an answer to
these challenges. There is a growing desire
among enterprises and organizations for
affordable middleware solutions that facilitate
uninterrupted operations.
AV Global, one of the leading logistics
solution providers was faced by a similar
problem. While the company did have a
robust IT team, which was equipped to handle
disaster management like situation, internally,
it decided to look at third-party service
providers, who could do this job for them
and free them to focus on their core business
strategies. Though the company reached out
to various service providers about its need, it
finally settled on NEC.
THE NEED
AV Global needed a solution that could take
care of system failures, application failures and
OS. Hence, in order to have zero downtime,
the company chose NEC ExpressCluste
software to achieve fast, automatic failover
that ensured business continuity and disaster
management. Being a channel-driven company,
NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for
the implementation of the NEC ExpressCluster
software for AV Global
Sharing the experience while working
with AV Global, PK Sharma, director, Comnet
Vision, said “We are thrilled to work with NEC
in bringing ExpressCluster high availability
solution to the Indian market. We found out
that NEC’s ExpressCluster is the perfect HA
and Disaster Recovery software solution, from
price-performance and feature-to-feature
comparisons. With more and more companies
looking for application and database availabili ty,
data recovery and business continuity, we
can now provide the best solution to our
customers.”
AV GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Implementing plans to ensure business
continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential
requirement for organizations today.
Downtime of important applications is a
costly proposition and extended downtime
can even be fatal. Downtime in terms of
system failures, application failures and OS,
result in huge revenue loss for a corporate.
ExpressCluster provides protection against
planned and unplanned failures of AV Globe’s
IT infrastructure. It acts as a constant server
monitor that detects the problem and provides
automatic recovery to minimize the server
downtime.
Speaking over the networking needs of AV
Global before the NEC solution, Vijay Mehta,
MD, AV Global Corporation said, “To be a
premiere logistics company, it is important to
provide quality service to customer, efficiently
and cost effectively. Hence to ensure this, it is
critical to have an IT solution that can meet not
only current, but also future IT requirements.
Therefore, we were looking for a solution which
could take care of downtime that resulted from
system failures, OS and application failures.”
THE SOLUTIONS
The solution provided by
NEC meets our expectation,
ensures business continuity
and protects mission-critical
applications. The company
significantly benefited from
this solution. Understanding
the need of AV Global,
NEC was confident that
ExpressCluster will be
the one solution for all its
worries. Speaking on the
solution part, Abhilesh
Guleria, country head,
IT platform and display
solutions bBusiness, NEC
India said, “ExpressCluster family of integrated
High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery
(DR) software enables fast recovery and
continuous protection of critical applications
and data. This software observes system
operations, detecting failures and automatically
transferring operations to a standby server that
continues to carry out application workloads.
Unplanned downtime mitigation against
hardware, software, and site failures, and
planned downtime mitigation against periodic
hardware and software maintenance tasks that
require system restart are also addressed.”
“We are excited to have Comnet Vision as
our partner for delivering NEC ExpressCluster
offerings. We look forward to cater to a
broader range of organizations, needing the
benefits of an integrated High-Availability
and Disaster Recovery solution by leveraging
the experienced team of our partner,” said
Guleria.
THE OUTPUT
After the deployment of solution, some of the
major benefits AV Global is getting firstly, the
logistics system of AV Global is geared up to
take peak workloads without experiencing
downtime. Moreover, AV Global has not
experienced a single interruption of service and
has experienced assured business continuity.
We have met the challenges of providing
99.99% uptime to its business critical ‘Logi-Sys’
system and centralized database running on
SQL server.
Mehta added, “The solution provided by
NEC meets our expectation, ensures business
continuity and protects mission-critical
applications. We have significantly benefited
from this solution. We hope to see NEC
empowering enterprises with more innovative
technology solutions in future.”
SANDHYA MALHOTRA
“We are thrilled to workwith NEC in bringingExpressCluster highavailability solution tothe Indian market. Wefound out that NEC’sExpressCluster is the
perfect HA and DisasterRecovery software solution,from price-performanceand feature-to-featurecomparisons. With more
and more companieslooking for applicationand database availability,data recovery and businesscontinuity, we can now
provide the best solution toour customers”
PK SHARMA, director, Comnet Vision