NEC Selects Coast Solutions Group to Coordinate Server and Storage Professional Services In U.S. Markets

Coast Solutions Group Joins NEC Solution Ecosystem Consisting of Industry-Leading Software, Hardware and Service Providers

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Storage Networking World)- Coast Solutions Group (CSG) and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announced today that NEC has selected CSG to deploy NEC server and storage professional service solutions. CSG joins NEC’s partner ecosystem that delivers expanded, end-to-end server and storage solutions, as well as software, manufacturing and visual solutions.

“NEC chose CSG to coordinate the deployment of our server and storage professional service solutions because the CSG-managed solution provider network offers technologically-diverse and geographically-dispersed capabilities,” said Matthew Wolken, Vice President of Fault Tolerant Servers and Enterprise Storage, NEC Corporation of America. “CSG not only helps identify qualified technical resources but also provides statement-of-work and project management services. These capabilities offered by CSG will help us deploy our server and storage solutions in almost any major industry within the United States.”

Collaborating with leading-edge software, hardware and service providers like CSG is a key component to creating integrated solutions for NEC customers. NEC partners represent a breadth of industries that further strengthen the reliability of NEC solutions.

“We created 20 different packaged server and storage deployment services that all NEC solution providers and customers can now tap into,” said CSG President Paul Freeman. “For custom deployments, our solution architects will create a customized statement-of-work. We then access local, qualified technical resources to deploy the solutions leveraging our network of service provider partners. This approach provides NEC with a central point of contact for service scoping and delivery that creates consistency and enables their resellers to quickly go to market with hardware, software and professional services that carry the NEC brand.”

CSG will provide services as part of the NEC storage program that offers disk storage systems engineered for businesses of all sizes, ranging from entry-level modular products through high-end enterprise systems. CSG will also provide services within the NEC server program that offers NEC’s award-winning Express5800 fault tolerant, high-performance and general purpose servers.