With a history spanning more than 117 years, NEC has long learned how to stay ahead of technology curves to remain relevant in the market.

Take Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as an example. By design, public cloud providers have designed their cloud environments to be flexible and run a variety of different applications for a wide array of business purposes. But these public cloud solutions are not always secure, nor are they necessarily compliant with industry or government regulations, meaning high risk and high cost to maintain and migrate. For these reasons coupled with a rapidly changing technology landscape, both public clouds and on premise data centers are starting to see competition from private and hybrid cloud offerings, such as NEC’s IaaS offering with Iron Mountain.

“As a company with such a long history and broad portfolio of technologies, NEC’s expertise spans many sectors including public safety, defense, government, healthcare, education and more,” says Larry Levenberg, Vice President, NEC Corporation of America. “You’ll often hear us say our company’s global development teams build solutions for the Smart Enterprise, with a focus on driving safety, security, and operational efficiency.”

As a designer of IT solutions for on premise and cloud-based offerings, NEC designs and builds technology with open architectures that can adapt to changing needs rapidly. For example, the company was a founding member of the teams that developed open networking standards (namely OpenFlow), which resulted in today’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. NEC uses SDN in its secure private cloud offering, and offers it to customers as an on premise solution to help companies become more nimble and achieve competitive advantages. NEC’s Fault Tolerant servers, general purpose servers and M-Series disk array and flash-based storage solutions are configurable as high-availability platforms, radically reducing hardware, support, and licensing requirements along with the complexity to deploy and manage infrastructure.

Putting all of this cloud infrastructure into action with its private IaaS offering, NEC is now working with IQ Business Group (IQBG) to deliver its private cloud solutions. IQBG needed a custom design to meet its federal customer’s requirements to reduce storage and operational costs and serve their security needs. IQBG’s private cloud platform uses NEC’s advanced N-block™ technology, including Programmable Flow Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Red Hat’s Cloud Suite for self-service functionality. The solution also enhances performance and gives IQBG the ability to market capabilities to government and enterprise clients whose primary business needs are high security and reliability for risk mitigation and regulatory compliance.