NEC Financing Incentives for Dynamic IT Infrastructure Products Help IT Departments Meet Business Demands Under Tight Budgets

Customers pay 0 percent interest for 36 months or
make no payments for 120 days on NEC server and storage purchases
Santa Clara, Calif.― NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, is rolling out new financing initiatives in the U.S. NEC is looking to make the purchasing decision easier by taking the immediate economic strain off the customer while allowing them to meet current business needs. Until the end of 2009, NEC is offering eligible organizations their choice of zero percent financing until 2012 or no payments for 120 days on eligible NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure products.

“More than ever, IT is being asked to deliver more with less and is struggling to control expenses,” said Dave Davenport, senior vice president, IT Platforms and Solutions, NEC Corporation of America. “As a global, 100-year-old company with more than $40 billion in annual revenues, we have a strong financing arm to help our customers achieve their IT goals in innovative ways.”

NEC is able to offer these attractive financing options through NEC Financial Services, LLC, a firm dedicated to providing tailored financing and leasing services to customers throughout the United States. NEC is known globally as a top five storage and server vendor with more than 50 years of delivering highly reliable, scalable, efficient solutions that provide the utmost value. Now, with these two new financing options, more customers can take advantage of NEC innovation.

One program offers zero percent financing for a 36-month fair market value purchase option lease on NEC’s HYDRAstor backup and archive grid storage, D-Series SAN storage, 300-series Fault Tolerant servers, SigmaBlade servers, Rack servers and A1160 enterprise Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. The second program offers no money down and no payments for 120 days, with 40 monthly lease payments on NEC’s HYDRAstor backup and archive grid storage, D-Series SAN storage, 300-series Fault Tolerant servers, SigmaBlade servers, Rack servers and A1160 enterprise Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. These finance options are available to all eligible customers across the U.S. who purchase any of the select products through December 31, 2009.

“NEC’s reputation for innovation expands beyond our technology,” said Herschel Salan, vice president and general manager, NEC Financial Services. “We are continually looking for new ways to bring our premier IT solutions to our growing customer base. And during these difficult economic times, we want as many companies as possible, to experience the value that NEC has to offer. These financing programs make it easier for NEC customers to do that.”

NEC’s Dynamic IT Infrastructure is a solution that includes servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software that are smart, flexible, adaptive to change, scalable, resilient, and continuously evolving. Along with NEC’s broad range of services-the NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure provides an ideal platform for virtualization, consolidation and business continuity and is ideal for driving greater value and efficiencies in solutions for physical security, law enforcement, emergency response, travel and entertainment, education, high performance computing, and business. This type of infrastructure allows IT organizations to move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner.