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Customer Case Study
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NESIC uses Cisco UCS B-Series Servers 
and Cisco UCS Director to transform how 
it manages and delivers cloud services. 
Challenge 
NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC) is a large-scale network and 
system integrator for the NEC Group. With more than 7,000 employees, the company is 
listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. NESIC works with corporations, 
telecommunication providers, government offices, and social infrastructure organizations to 
provide a wide variety of services, including implementation, maintenance, and operation of 
ICT infrastructure, office solutions, and security solutions.
Since 2009, NESIC has offered cloud services to customers, and cloud services quickly 
became one of the company’s most important lines of businesses. In addition to hosting 
applications on the cloud, the company offers infrastructure-as-a-service through “S-iDC 
Cloud Hosting Service,” desktop-as-a-service through “Thin Client Service STclient,” and 
email services. NESIC also offers procurement, implementation, and management of 
servers and other ICT infrastructure.
As part of the company’s business strategy, each service is owned by a separate business 
unit, but as cloud services have grown, the cost of deploying infrastructure to support these 
cloud services was becoming a burden. The company needed a way to reduce labor costs 
while meeting the changing demands of their business in a more flexible manner. 
The company realized that in order to continue growing its business, it needed to unify 
management of ICT infrastructure for its numerous cloud services. NESIC decided to 
implement an internal cloud service as well as automate their infrastructure operations 
and management. 
System Integrator Simplifies and Automates 
Data Center Infrastructure
•  Customer Name: NEC Networks & 
System Integration Corporation
•  Industry: System integrator
•  Location: Tokyo, Japan
•  Number of Employees: 7,100
Challenge
•  Unify infrastructure management 
for both virtual and physical 
environments
•  Reduce time and labor involved with 
deploying infrastructure
•  Improve cost-efficiency of cloud 
services and solutions
Solution
•  Implemented UCS Director to 
automate provisioning while 
maintaining high quality governance
•  Deployed Cisco UCS B-Series 
Servers to reduce cabling and 
simplify infrastructure
Results
•  Delivered unified provisioning and 
management to support cloud 
environment with UCS Director
•  Automated provisioning to reduce 
server deployment time by 50% and 
deliver cost savings in labor and time
•  Enabled existing staff to manage 
more workloads and projects
Executive Summary