Reading Time: 2 minutes NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, managed services and biometric solutions, announced a new addition to its award winning HYDRAstor storage platform: a Virtual Appliance designed to allow for extremely rapid provisioning of backup storage into virtualized environments and provide off-site backup capabilities ideal for small sites and branches. HYDRAstor architecture was initially introduced in March 2007. This marked the culmination of more than four years of intense research, development and market validation. It began with a pair of researchers obsessed by their vision of a whole […]