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BakBone Software, a global provider of data protection software, and NEC Corporation today announced that they have signed a worldwide alliance to integrate BakBone's NetVault software with NEC's TX7 Series Server Family based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Under the agreement, NEC will have global distribution rights to NetVault 7 Enterprise edition. The combination of NetVault high reliability backup and recovery software with NEC's TX7 series servers offers customers an advanced program development environment running on 64-bit Linux. Delivering enhanced data protection and enterprise-class functionality that scales to meet the demands of any size environment, NetVault is ideally suited for high performance computing environments for which the TX7 series family is targeted. As part of the agreement, NetVault will be deployed as the backup and recovery solution for NEC in markets that require large-scale data processing and high performance with an emphasis on technical, scientific and educational verticals. The agreement includes NetVault Enterprise edition for heterogeneous environments, BakBone's VaultShare APM which supports StorageTek libraries using StorageTek's ACSLS library control module, as well as BakBone's disk to disk backup (Virtual Disk Library) capability. "NEC selected BakBone's NetVault for its modularity which provides the ability to quickly adapt to new applications and storage technologies such as support for the latest advancements in tape," said Toshiyuki Furui, General Manager, HPC Marketing Promotion Division, NEC. "NetVault's scalability is ideal for our TX7 Series which is targeted at high performance environments such as the technical and science markets. In the future, NEC will sell the TX7 server not only as a calculation server but also as a large-sized file server for our supercomputer SX Series." "The BakBone/NEC alliance provides a complete, scalable solution for enterprise customers looking to effectively manage the backup and restoration process of business-critical data," said Adrian Jones, senior vice president, worldwide OEMs and alliances, BakBone Software. "Pairing NetVault with NEC's high performance servers gives customers with high volume processing and continuous application demands the data protection they need for their business continuance strategies."