‘Best of CeBIT America’ Award Goes to NEC Solutions

NEW YORK, May 26 /PRNewswire/ — CeBIT America, the premier information and communications technology (ICT) event for the enterprise business marketplace, eWeek and PC Magazine today announced that the second annual “Best of CeBIT America” Award was presented to NEC Solutions Disaster Recovery Fault Tolerant Solution. The award was accepted by NEC Solutions’ President and Chief Executive Officer, Toshimitsu Iwanami, this afternoon in an awards ceremony on the show floor.

The NEC Solutions Disaster Recovery Fault Tolerant Solution is a powerful disaster recovery solution built on NEC’s Fault Tolerant Servers and their ExpressCluster Software, which ensures applications keep running even when a datacenter goes down.

Products and services were evaluated for innovation, technical breakthrough, and creativity of design, as judged by the editorial and labs staffs of eWEEK and PC Magazine, both leading Ziff Davis Media publications. Eligible products were announced on or after February 1, 2004, are available for public viewing at CeBIT America, and are scheduled to ship to customers on or before July 31, 2004.

“These products represent a broad cross section of products and capabilities that impact everyone from the small business user up to the enterprise. Each impressed the editors of PC Magazine and eWEEK with their new and innovative approaches to the high-tech needs and desires of the computing marketplace,” said Michael J. Miller, PC Magazine’s editor-in-chief and Editorial Director of Ziff Davis Media.

“Best of CeBIT” awards were conferred in twelve product categories:

* NEC Solutions Disaster Recovery Fault Tolerant Solution was conferred

the award in the Enterprise IT Hardware category, covering servers,

switches, hubs, wireless LAN access points/cards, high-volume printers,

appliances (other than storage- and security-specific appliances);

* Adaptec File Saver was conferred the award in the Enterprise Storage

category, covering SAN hardware and software, NAS hardware and

software, storage management software, enterprise backup software, tape

storage;

* NEC Solutions new CachePortal was conferred the award in the Enterprise

Platform Software category, covering network operating systems,

databases, application servers, mail servers, instant messaging, load

balancing software, directory systems, application frameworks and

software development/QA/deployment tools;

* Secure Systems Enterprise Data Vault was conferred the award in the

Enterprise Systems Defense category, covering a uthentication and

access control systems, PKI, intrusion detection/prevention systems,

fire-walls and VPN software/appliances, wireless LAN security

software/appliances, encryption and security scanners, anti-virus

products, security appliances, backup and restore, UPSs;

* NetSupport DNA 1.01 was conferred the award in the Enterprise Systems

Management category, covering network and server monitoring systems,

network management systems, business process management systems,

software distribution and centralized management tools, diagnostic

tools, patch management software, wireless sniffers;

* Serious Magic Visual Communicator was conferred the award in the

Enterprise Applications category, covering online meeting and

conferencing software, CRM, ERP, supply-chain management systems,

help-desk systems, data integration servers, online storefront systems,

analytic systems, knowledge management solutions, portals, enterprise

collaboration tools, data analysis and reporting tools, forecasting

systems, finance tools, document and content management;

* XMS-PubliCast was conferred the award in the Mobile and Wireless

Devices category, covering phones, PDAs, wireless services for

consumers;

* Iomega Rev 35 was conferred the award in the Personal Hardware

category, covering display devices, personal/SOHO storage devices,

gadgets; and,

* Mindjet MindManager X5 Professional was conferred the award in the

Personal Software category, covering personal/SOHO software, games,

consumer-oriented Web sites and services.

About CeBIT America

Organized by Princeton, NJ-based Hannover Fairs USA, Inc., CeBIT America is the premier Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the enterprise business marketplace. Emphasizing the entire spectrum of enterprise technology — systems, applications, networking and communications — this is the only US forum to explore the full range of next generation global technologies and solutions.

CeBIT is the world’s largest and most influential information and communications technology trade fair. The flagship event, CeBIT Hannover, runs for seven days each spring and takes place at the Hannover Fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany CeBIT Hannover 2004 used 3.6 million square feet of net display space and hosted 6,411 exhibiting companies, approximately 510,000 visitors and 10,000 journalists. CeBIT America joins the annual roster of international CeBIT events that includes — in addition to the original CeBIT in Hannover — CeBIT Asia (Shanghai, China), CeBIT Australia (Sydney), and CeBIT Bilisim Eurasia (Istanbul, Turkey). Visit http://www.cebit-america.com/ for more information.

CeBIT America

CONTACT: Laura E. Wilker of Makovsky & Co., +1-212-508-9656, orlwilker@makovsky.com, for CeBIT America

Web site: http://www.cebit-america.com/