What is a High Security Data Solution for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

By now you may know that NEC offers a highly secure, federally compliant Infrastructure as a Service offering, hosted on NEC Nblock™ technology inside Iron Mountain’s federal government compliant data center in Pennsylvania.

What you may not know is that  NEC now provides customers with an extremely secure, private, Cloud-based SAP HANA® service solution.  Simply put, NEC’s IaaS solution is based on NEC’s Nblocktm technology, combined with the high security, federally compliant environment in Iron Mountain’s data center.

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA is the in-memory computing platform that delivers super-fast data crunching, more intelligence, and simplified IT environments – whether deployed on premise or in the cloud. By providing a solid foundation for all the organization’s data needs, SAP HANA also allows you to run live, with speedy data access, and without having to maintain separate legacy systems. Translation? Crunching volumes of Big Data in a SAP HANA application no longer takes hours, but rather minutes or seconds.

Now, NEC customers who are migrating to SAP HANA and have a need for highly secure data can have a single-tenant and fully managed private cloud-hosted environment with a 100% dedicated rack, solidly built on NEC’s Nblock converged infrastructure technology. All of this is hosted within an SAP HANA-certified and FISMA-compliant environment, providing one of the most hack-proof data storage, extremely high availability and secure operations platforms available today.

NEC’s Single-Source Solution for Security, Reliability and Compliance

Since SAP HANA is an in-memory platform designed to make the processing of large data volumes much faster and more efficient, NEC engineers developed an infrastructure as a service (#IaaS) blueprint specifically designed to address resource-intensive SAP HANA needs, for a true turnkey service to enterprise customers, government clients and partners.

As an SAP-certified Provider of Hosting Services, as well as Operations Services for the SAP HANA platform and Application Management Services, NEC uses a professional delivery model based on best practices for mission-critical SAP applications.

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Achieving these SAP certifications is not a simple thing. There is an extensive review by SAP of NEC’s IT service management processes, its security measures, facilities setup, experience in SAP operations, and NEC staff to ensure compliance with SAP’s requirements for quality, availability and high security.  This intense review process repeats every two years.

As an SAP certified provider, NEC delivers a broad portfolio of SAP certified IT services related to SAP applications. These services, together with NEC’s large-memory enterprise servers for SAP HANA, provide data center customers an extremely high level of performance and security to run their mission-critical SAP applications in one of most secure and resilient facilities in the world, Iron Mountain.

Unparalleled Virtual and Physical Security

NEC’s hosting partner in this solution, Iron Mountain, is the global leader for storage and information management services. With a real estate network of more than 80 million square feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries, Iron Mountain is dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for customers.

Organizations today face increasing data center needs for privacy and security as well as compliance with environmental regulations. Located more than 200 feet below the earth’s surface, Iron Mountain’s energy efficient, underground data center in Pennsylvania is part of a 200-acre campus that offers NEC’s customers predictable, long-term scalability in a stable, highly-secure environment–the ideal hosting for NEC’s IT infrastructure and applications.
Iron Mountain’s FISMA High framework, large federal customer base, energy efficiency, and “U.S. Department of Homeland Security Level IV critical facility standards” enables NEC customers and partners to leverage its extensive compliance support to address their specific end-user requirements (whether ISO:27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS Level 1, or SOC 2 Type II).

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The Future of IaaS

IaaS is becoming a major IT initiative, and showing no signs of slowing down in the future. In fact, the majority of participants in a recent IDC survey indicated they were either currently using or planning to employ some form of public cloud IaaS by the end of 2016, and it also forecasts that future IaaS revenues will more than triple in 2020 to $43.6 billion.

Forbes has reported that 2016 spending on public cloud IaaS hardware and software will reach $38 billion, and projected to grow to $173 billion in 2026.

These organizational responses measure more than just an IT trend.  They reflect a movement toward flexibility and high security data, and the growing need for an endlessly scalable, cost effective and completely reliable IT infrastructure solution.

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In Conclusion

With mounting concerns about data security and the instability of most public cloud services, organizations are seeing the need for a reliable single source IT and UC provider.  It is time to let you know that NEC is much more than a global leader in Biometrics innovation, UC solutions and on premises platforms. It is the expert provider of a truly remarkable IaaS solution. Together with its large-memory enterprise servers for SAP HANA, NEC provides data center customers with an unmatched level of high availability performance and SAP-certified, federal government-ready data security.

So … how safe is your organization’s most private information?

 

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