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Beating natural disasters with ExpressBeing a channel-driven company, NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for the implementation of the NEC Express-

Cluster software for AV Global

Due to recurring natural disasters and

increasing security threats in India,

business continuity and disaster

management have assumed significant 

importance in the enterprise community.

Businesses today are absolutely cautious about 

their operations, and they are trying hard to

avoid any downtime in order to prevent any 

loss of business opportunity. Hence, corrective

measures need to be taken to ensure

business continuity at all times. Middleware

solutions are fast emerging as an answer to

these challenges. There is a growing desire

among enterprises and organizations for

affordable middleware solutions that facilitate

uninterrupted operations.

  AV Global, one of the leading logistics

solution providers was faced by a similar

problem. While the company did have a

robust IT team, which was equipped to handle

disaster management like situation, internally,

it decided to look at third-party service

providers, who could do this job for them

and free them to focus on their core business

strategies. Though the company reached out 

to various service providers about its need, it 

finally settled on NEC.

THE NEED

 AV Global needed a solution that could take

care of system failures, application failures and

OS. Hence, in order to have zero downtime,

the company chose NEC ExpressCluste

software to achieve fast, automatic failover

that ensured business continuity and disaster

management. Being a channel-driven company,

NEC selected Delhi-based Comnet Vision for

the implementation of the NEC ExpressCluster

software for AV Global

Sharing the experience while working

 with AV Global, PK Sharma, director, Comnet 

 Vision, said “We are thrilled to work with NEC

in bringing ExpressCluster high availability 

solution to the Indian market. We found out 

that NEC’s ExpressCluster is the perfect HA 

and Disaster Recovery software solution, from

price-performance and feature-to-feature

comparisons. With more and more companies

looking for application and database availabili ty,

data recovery and business continuity, we

can now provide the best solution to our

customers.”

 AV GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Implementing plans to ensure business

continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential

requirement for organizations today.

Downtime of important applications is a

costly proposition and extended downtime

can even be fatal. Downtime in terms of 

system failures, application failures and OS,

result in huge revenue loss for a corporate.

ExpressCluster provides protection against 

planned and unplanned failures of AV Globe’s

IT infrastructure. It acts as a constant server

monitor that detects the problem and provides

automatic recovery to minimize the server

downtime.

Speaking over the networking needs of AV 

Global before the NEC solution, Vijay Mehta,

MD, AV Global Corporation said, “To be a

premiere logistics company, it is important to

provide quality service to customer, efficiently 

and cost effectively. Hence to ensure this, it is

critical to have an IT solution that can meet not 

only current, but also future IT requirements.

Therefore, we were looking for a solution which

could take care of downtime that resulted from

system failures, OS and application failures.”

THE SOLUTIONS

The solution provided by 

NEC meets our expectation,

ensures business continuity 

and protects mission-critical

applications. The company 

significantly benefited from

this solution. Understanding

the need of AV Global,

NEC was confident that 

ExpressCluster will be

the one solution for all its

  worries. Speaking on the

solution part, Abhilesh

Guleria, country head,

IT platform and display 

solutions bBusiness, NEC

India said, “ExpressCluster family of integrated

High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery 

(DR) software enables fast recovery and

continuous protection of critical applications

and data. This software observes system

operations, detecting failures and automatically 

transferring operations to a standby server that 

continues to carry out application workloads.

Unplanned downtime mitigation against 

hardware, software, and site failures, and

planned downtime mitigation against periodic 

hardware and software maintenance tasks that 

require system restart are also addressed.”

“We are excited to have Comnet Vision as

our partner for delivering NEC ExpressCluster

offerings. We look forward to cater to a

broader range of organizations, needing the

benefits of an integrated High-Availability 

and Disaster Recovery solution by leveraging

the experienced team of our partner,” said

Guleria.

THE OUTPUT

 After the deployment of solution, some of the

major benefits AV Global is getting firstly, the

logistics system of AV Global is geared up to

take peak workloads without experiencing

downtime. Moreover, AV Global has not 

experienced a single interruption of service and

has experienced assured business continuity.

We have met the challenges of providing

99.99% uptime to its business critical ‘Logi-Sys’

system and centralized database running on

SQL server.

Mehta added, “The solution provided by 

NEC meets our expectation, ensures business

continuity and protects mission-critical

applications. We have significantly benefited

from this solution. We hope to see NEC

empowering enterprises with more innovative

technology solutions in future.”

SANDHYA MALHOTRA

(sandhyam@cybermedia.co.in)

“We are thrilled to workwith NEC in bringingExpressCluster highavailability solution tothe Indian market. Wefound out that NEC’sExpressCluster is the

perfect HA and DisasterRecovery software solution,from price-performanceand feature-to-featurecomparisons. With more

and more companieslooking for applicationand database availability,data recovery and businesscontinuity, we can now

provide the best solution toour customers”

PK SHARMA, director, Comnet Vision