NEC IT Platform Solutions Strengthens its Indirect Cloud Strategy with COREYE

Paris, France - November 8, 2011 - NEC IT Platform Solutions (NEC IT PS) and COREYE (www.coreye.fr), one of Frances top specialists in hosting and outsourced high availability solutions, today announced a partnership agreement for the NEC XaaS Ready To Go offering, NECs suite of dedicated Cloud Computing solutions. COREYE completes its hosting & outsourced Cloud services portfolio with NECs Cloud management solution. COREYE, who have been specialized for more than 15 years in hosting and outsourced critical applications offer custom managed infrastructure solutions with guaranteed 7x24 availability regardless of the level of activity. COREYE, who are facing growing demand from its customers for Cloud-based services, wanted a solution for Cloud management and automation that is simple, powerful and based on intuitive virtualization technology. A key requirement of their desired solution was to allow them to quickly evolve their services offering to IaaS, SaaS and other Cloud services on the short-term. In addition, COREYE required a solution that natively provides billing, provisioning, reporting and an open user interface in French as well as all foreign languages natively spoken by their international customers. The hosting company wanted to complete its range of services by offering its customers on-demand service provisioning of IT resources in the Public Cloud. COREYEs Instant Cloud service, launched in October 2011, is used to allocate and deploy virtual servers on-demand, providing unequalled flexibility in resource utilization, with very competitive daily, weekly, monthly or annual costs. After a thorough review and test drive of competing Cloud Automation Solutions, COREYE chose to offer their Cloud Services based upon NECs "XaaS Ready To Go." This turnkey solution, which allows a Service Provider to develop IaaS, SaaS and DaaS services in a very simple and efficient manner, has specific portal access and functional roles for the service provider, its resellers and service users. It also automates the order intake, provisioning and multi-tier customer billing of IT services as well as many other business and virtualization management functions regardless of the resale scheme (Single-Tier, 2-Tier, etc.). The simplicity of the CloudController software solution, which allows us to offer rapid service deployment, a fully-automated Cloud sales cycle (ordering, provisioning and customer billing), and affordable monthly cost-oriented OPEX (Operating Expenditures) opened the door to NECs cloud automation platform for us. The strategic partnership with NEC by which they provide global solutions, as well as the high flexibility and responsiveness of the NEC team round out the main reasons that COREYE chose NECs "XaaS Ready To Go" for our Cloud. We have found a true partner in NEC who really listen to our needs and reacted quickly and efficiently to implementing some of our key service product functions into CloudController . The ability of CloudController to provide native billing on both the customer and COREYE sides met our expectations perfectly. Our desire to provide a quality native language product for our international clients has been realized", said Camille Cacheux, CEO, COREYE. Fabien Dachicourt, COREYEs CTO added, "We were attracted by the ease of installation and use of the CloudController product. The user interface is really simple and effective. We were also able to verify the openness of the product by managing virtualized resources from different virtualization technologies as well as those in external Clouds. This product offers true centralized Cloud management for our customers."
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 This partnership with COREYE follows NECs strategy to support its partners in implementing simple and effective Cloud Computing solutions. We bring COREYE the tools they need to develop their Cloud activity and we are committed to provide them comprehensive support on all technical, sales and marketing issues, said Thomas Luquet, Head of Datacenter and Cloud Computing for NEC IT Platform Solutions.

About COREYE
COREYE is the entity of Pictime Group specialized in hosting and outsourced services for mission critical applications with high availability. Led by Camille Cacheux, COREYE has 50 employees and generated sales of 5 million in 2010, 27% growth over 2009. In 2011, COREYE has seen both an increase in its commercial activities and has recruited more than 10 new employees. Its main customers are leaders in retail and services including: Kiabi, Id Group, Electro Dpt, Quelle, MMA, 3 Suisses Allemagne, Edhec, Codes Rousseau, Boulanger, Promod, Nocib, Groupe Norauto, etc. COREYE has invested in a highly-available, multi-site infrastructure consisting of 3 carrier-neutral data centers, multi-room and multi-technology, and a 7x24 service center. The company is one of the Top-5 French hosting and outsourcing companies for 5 years running, earning the classification: 01netPro / IP-label). http://www.coreye.fr/Solutions/Cloud/Cloud-public-coreye

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the companys experience and global resources, NECs advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

About NEC IT Platform Solutions

NEC IT Platform Solutions provides businesses with servers, storage, software and virtualized desktops that enable its customers to maximize business efficiency and performance and improve profitability. It works with its customers to deliver tailored, innovative solutions from a broad portfolio of products and solutions with short ROI and lower TCO. For example, NECs green, virtualized servers and desktops provide the resilience and flexibility necessary for successful and agile enterprises. In addition, NEC IT Platform Solutions provides enhanced high availability solutions such as the NEC Fault Tolerant Servers and NEC Express Cluster Software. NEC IT Platform Solutions has its global headquarters in Paris, France for the EMEA region and works in conjunction with NECs businesses worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.nec-itplatform.com NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. 2011 NEC Corporation.

Contact :
NEC IT Platform Solutions Division Annick Reyngoudt Tel : +33 6 89 49 0677 annick.reyngoudt@emea.nec.com http://www.nec-itplatform.com

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