NEC Solutions America CachePortal Deployed Globally in MARSYS Data Cen

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    RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2005--NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, today announced that its Strategic Alliance Partner, MARSYS, is deploying NEC's CachePortal(TM) dynamic content delivery management system throughout its worldwide data centers. Designed to radically improve their clients' end-user's application experience, CachePortal leverages its cache management software architecture for intelligent dynamic content validation processing in order to independently maintain cached content. The result is dramatic gains in user response times and increased application scalability.
    Those gains are critical in today's environment, in which a growing number of users are connected to data center applications over the Internet, often taxing network performance. The combination of NEC CachePortal and MARSYS' expertise in outsourcing, hosting, and network management for Web-based applications delivers a powerful solution for MARSYS' customer application performance needs.
    "Dynamic edge content delivery management ensures end-users a satisfactory customer experience," said Nader Shaterian, CIO of MARSYS. "We believe the end-user experience is critical to the success of application services. When dealing with mission-critical applications as a host provider, every second of application performance for the end-user will maximize their value. NEC's CachePortal also provides an optimization layer for expanding the application service reach to more global users without increasing the infrastructure ratios."
    "We are very pleased that MARSYS selected CachePortal to enhance the performance of their IT outsourcing services," said Ken Hertzler-Walters, director of software products, NEC Solutions America. "The sheer range of application types and architectures managed by MARSYS will benefit from CachePortal's ability to manage dynamic application content on their cache servers. More importantly, CachePortal can be cost-effectively incorporated into disparate software application architectures."
    MARSYS' data center infrastructure is based on distributing applications offered as on-demand services. MARSYS deploys a globally redundant grid allowing users to adjust their capacity, throughput, and availability of applications as needed. This service-oriented architecture ensures that the correct resources are available for business applications from anywhere within the global grid. By bringing NEC's CachePortal into this infrastructure, MARSYS gains content-based improvements, and enhancements to globally distribute applications as services for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
    "CachePortal helps MARSYS to provide unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and integrity as an outsource data center provider," said Shaterian.
    "NEC's CachePortal solution is based on the theory that 'the more content that is cached, the faster the application will run,'" Hertzler-Walters added. "Only CachePortal can offer customers radical price/performance and cost of ownership benefits achieved through its highly intelligent dynamic content delivery management ability with negligible application overhead. Furthermore, CachePortal can also provide static cache and content delivery network (CDN) services. CachePortal offers reduced application latency advantages that dramatically exceed those solutions without dynamic application caching capability, resulting in a multiple return on investment as compared to alternative solutions."

    About CachePortal

    NEC's CachePortal is a dynamic content delivery management system for mission critical applications. It optimizes application performance because it fundamentally caches more application content on its cache servers than other content delivery solutions. CachePortal manages dynamic content through its patented dynamic Content Delivery Manager, integrated with the application. With this Content Delivery Manager, customers will experience huge increases in the cacheable delivery of their application content, resulting in radically higher performance benefits as compared to standard static or network cache server approaches.

    About MARSYS

    MARSYS is the proven authority in solving mission-critical IT challenges that meet today's business requirements. For more than two decades, the company has applied its best IT practices to deliver integrated global solutions enabling companies to maximize their full business potential. Leveraging the company's core technologies and methodologies, the company's team of highly certified IT professionals takes a very granular approach to diagnosing IT problems. As a result, MARSYS IT professionals assess IT pain points, analyze, and make strategic recommendations quickly and accurately. As a trusted third party, MARSYS allows customers to focus on core day-to-day IT challenges while the team of experts focuses on long-term IT strategies utilizing their comprehensive managed and professional services. Thus, delivering scalable IT solutions that match customer business goals. The company's integrated global solutions are designed to work independently or complement other service or solution providers. MARSYS delivers its integrated solutions directly and through MARSYS certified global solution alliance partners. MARSYS is a privately held company incorporated in California as Mariner Systems, Inc., with headquarters in the United States and partners worldwide. For more information on MARSYS go to www.marsys.com.

    About NEC Solutions (America), Inc.

    NEC Solutions (America), Inc. is a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America. As an affiliate of NEC Corporation (NASDAQ:NIPNY) (FTSE:6701q.1), NEC Solutions America taps into a global resource network to help clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive edge. From corporate performance management and biometric security solutions to digital cinema and in-theatre advertising systems, visual displays and server solutions, the expertise is delivered with the personal attention needed to address individual situations. With headquarters in Rancho Cordova, California, NEC Solutions America serves a wide range of markets, including the health care and public safety, financial services, cinema, retail and manufacturing markets. Information regarding NEC Solutions America and CachePortal can be found at www.necsam.com and www.necsam.com/cacheportal.

    NEC and CachePortal are trademarks or registered trademarks of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. (C) 2005 NEC Solutions (America), Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: NEC Solutions (America), Inc. Beth Makosey, 408-844-1320 beth.makosey@necsam.com or MARSYS Darren Kearl, 650-655-2693 dkearl@MARSYS.com or Creative Copywriting and Marketing for MARSYS Courtney Harris, 562-439-2835 charris@charriscreative.com

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