NEC Provides WAF and Clustering Software on Amazon Web Services(R) Cloud Platform

*** For immediate use May 8, 2012 Tokyo, May 8, 2012 - NEC Corporation announced today the availability of services on Amazon Web Services(R), including its "InfoCage SiteShell" Web Application Firewall Software and "EXPRESSCLUSTER X" Clustering Software, which have been successfully introduced to leading companies throughout the world. IT systems and mission critical systems on the Cloud must feature robust security, superior fault detection and rapid disaster recovery. The NEC technologies running on AWS enables the provision of a highly available and secure Cloud computing environment. Key features of "InfoCage SiteShell" and "EXPRESSCLUSTER X" on AWS are as follows:

*5) AWS Region: A Region is where Amazon Web Services has datacenters in the country. Availability Zones: Each AWS Region consists of multiple Availability Zones.  Each Availability Zone in a AWS Region has datacenter clusters that are engineered to be operationally independent of the other Availability Zones, with independent power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity.