Dubai, 3 October 2016 – At GITEX Technology Week, 16-20 October 2016 in Dubai, NEC Corporation is showcasing at stand Z-E30 the latest evolution of its wide spectrum of powerful business solutions that equip organizations for smart business transformation in today’s digital business landscape.

Smart Transformation
With so many disruptive changes in today’s markets, organizations are confronted with the question whether to transform or be left behind. Cloud services, mobile integration, real-time collaboration and high availability are becoming essential ingredients for the smart and secure enterprise. They are part of a rapidly evolving technology foundation by means of which NEC is enabling new approaches to how Communications and IT services are delivered and managed to drive business growth.

NEC’s demonstrations of latest enhancements at GITEX underpin the company’s rich and innovative portfolio to empower smart business transformation and include

• Virtual Workspace, High Availability, Smart Storage, Software Defined Networking and Cloud System Solutions
• Communication servers, UC&C solutions and Cloud platforms for SMB and Enterprises
• Award winning Facial Recognition, Security and IoT solutions for a Safer and Efficient Society
• Industry specific solutions for Hospitality, Healthcare, Higher Education and Government sectors

Empowering the Smart Enterprise
“At GITEX we are demonstrating how Smart Enterprises can leverage converged technologies to optimize business practices, drive workforce engagement and create a competitive edge”, says Domenico De Stefanis, Managing Director Middle East for NEC Enterprise Solutions. “Our Smart Enterprise Framework brings together all key technologies, applications and smart workspaces that deliver scalable, resilient and secure services for productive and efficient operations”, he explains. More info on: http://ow.ly/RucR7

The undisputed Global No.1 in Enterprise Communications
“It is not for nothing that with a market share of 13% we are the no. 1 in global Enterprise Communications. Our communication platforms serve small, medium and enterprise class businesses with rich functionality, sophisticated terminals and productivity boosting applications”, De Stefanis continues.

Underpinning this at GITEX is NEC’s UNIVERGE SV9000 series communication servers for medium to large enterprises (www.necsv9000.com), as well as NEC’s SL1000 communication server, that with its attractive pricing, easy installation and carefree operation is specifically designed to fit the needs of small businesses and distribution channels.

Also on show is UNIVERGE 3C, NEC’s software-based UC&C solution for powerful user-centric IP telephony and rich collaboration seamlessly embedded in today’s IT architectures (www.nec-3c.com).

NEC’s Smart & Secure Virtual Workspace
NEC’s unique Virtual Desktop solution in combination with UNIVERGE 3C has made it the No.1 supplier of Desktop Virtualization in the Middle East. Residing on central servers and leveraging the benefits of security and business continuity, NEC’s Smart Virtual Workspace allows users to securely access their working environment from anywhere, at any time, with any device and delivers a consistent, rich-media experience in combination with the ease of central management (www.nec-virtualworkspace.com).

High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Keeping the IT & UC system always up and running is essential for business success, even more so in virtualized environments or public/private cloud services. Powered by energy efficient and powerful processors, NEC's Server Family reduces procurement and operations costs for environments that require small, medium or large-scale consolidation.

NEC’s integrated EXPRESSCLUSTER, the leading High Availability & Disaster Recovery minimizes the damage organizations experience from system outages, whether they are planned or unplanned and offers market-proven quality of high availability for various applications including SAP.

NEC’s Award Winning SDN for Enterprise and Smart Cloud System Solution
Installed in networks around the world, NEC’s ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite was the first commercially available SDN solution to leverage the OpenFlow protocol. The suite enables full network virtualization and allows enterprises, data centers and service providers to easily deploy, control, monitor and manage secure multi-tenant network infrastructures. More info on: www.nec-sdn.com

Another NEC software defined innovation on show at GITEX is NEC’s Smart Cloud System Solution, an Open Source Software based, converged infrastructure for Private Cloud. NEC provides complete pre-designed and pre-validated infrastructure stack, including networks, servers and storage including a user-friendly dashboard for integrated operation or system resource management and IaaS self-service.
More info on: https://www.nec-enterprise.com/products/Cloud-Platform-for-Iaas

HYDRAstor Enterprise for High Performance Capacity-optimized Storage for Long-term Data
Data is growing at explosive rates. Storage & Data Management is considered as a top priority among all CIO’s and IT administrators. Even in midsize and smaller organizations hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of data needs to be managed. NEC HYDRAstor’s secondary storage consolidation platform delivers a strong long-term track record in the industry for performance, data resiliency, non-disruptive technology refreshes. More info on: https://www.nec-enterprise.com/products/HYDRAstor-Series-112

Aspiring the Smart Enterprise across Industry sectors
As ICT leader NEC leverages its solutions and expertise to enable organizations across industry sectors to operate smarter and become more flexible, secure and responsive. GITEX visitors are welcome to explore the industry-specific solutions NEC has on display and discuss with NEC market sector specialists the benefits these bring to sectors such as Hospitality, Healthcare, Education and Government.

• On show is a selection of NEC’s Smart Hospitality solutions and services that address the hospitality industry’s needs. NEC’s global experience as preferred supplier makes it a key player in meeting the needs of hotels, event centers, cruise lines and travel organizations. For properties large or small, from privately owned small hotels to large worldwide chains, NEC’s solutions improve staff efficiency, control costs and delight guests (www.nec-smarthospitality.com).
• NEC's Smart Healthcare solutions enable healthcare providers to deliver the right treatment faster and include mobility and messaging for staff and patients, location detection and infrastructure redundancy for disaster preparedness and mission-critical continuance. On show at GITEX is the new iCall smart nurse call system. Tightly integrated with NEC‘s communication servers, it enables immediate voice response from a nurse to a patient through the speakerphone of any NEC communication endpoint, providing staff freedom to move around and still be instantly available.
• In the Education sector many universities have deployed NEC solutions in smart campuses that provide students and staff with a secure & productive working environment such as thin client smart workspaces. Better IT services are proven to result in better development of technical and academic skills of the students. See some implementations at universities on: http://ow.ly/RucE1
• NEC delivers a comprehensive set of products and services for the Government sector. Centralized contact centers, integrated public safety and simplified processes help improve efficiencies that translate into lower operational costs and speedier processes. With IT systems playing an increasingly pivotal role in delivering public services, preventing their downtime is essential for ensuring the wellbeing of citizens. By linking people, things and processes through IoT, NEC’s aim for the Smart Society is to realize a safer and more secure daily life.

NeoFace – the world’s fastest and most accurate Facial Recognition and Matching
Public safety agencies and enterprises are increasingly using facial recognition as identification method. NEC's industry-leading Facial Recognition Identification Technology NeoFace is the world's fastest and most accurate facial matching product and is adopted by organizations throughout the world, including police forces, immigration offices, and public facilities. The latest release includes enhancements for non-frontal facial images, low-resolution images and uncontrolled environments.

Advancing IoT solutions
One of NEC’s prime focus areas is to drive Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. With Industrial IoT, a solution that supports next-generation manufacturing, NEC leverages its technological strengths in areas such as Smart Mobility, Image Recognition, Big Data analysis and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Industrial IoT includes prediction analysis to automatically identify irregularities in large volumes of data and highly-accurately predict product quality and performance. At GITEX visitors can discuss with NEC specialists how they can benefit from NEC’s IoT solutions for their industry.  

Display and Signage solutions tailored to market segments
On show at GITEX in the area of display technology are a range of innovative solutions for Control Room applications as well as tailored solutions for Aviation, Retail and Education.

NEC is available in the Zabeel Hall at Stand No. Z-E30.
For more information, please visit: www.nec-events.com/GITEX.

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About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.  For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

About NEC Enterprise Solutions, EMEA
NEC Enterprise Solutions provides IT & Communication solutions to small, medium and large enterprises in both the private and public sectors. Designed for open connectivity, high availability and flexible growth, our innovative solutions incorporate the latest voice, data and video technologies and enable real-time, collaborative working, increased productivity and customer satisfaction. Our servers, storage solutions, software and virtualised workstations enable businesses to maximise operational efficiency, performance and profitability.
NEC Enterprise Solutions serves its customers across EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) through a network of direct sales organizations, business partners and value-added resellers.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nec-enterprise.com.