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Verari Launches Portable Data Center
Verari FOREST Container solution is the future of data center consolidation, delivering up to 1400 servers or nearly 12 petabytes of storage capacity with self-contained cooling technology, allowing for true portability that can be deployed nearly anywhere. Verari Systems has unveiled the Verari FOREST container solution, a portable data center that can be rapidly deployed wherever extremely power-efficient compute and storage solutions are needed. The Verari FOREST container solution is designed to house up to 1400 blade-based compute servers or nearly 12 petabytes of blade-based storage by utilizing Verari’s BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms in a modular unit. Verari is the market leader in blade storage, shipping over 30 petabytes in 2007. 
“There are a growing number of enterprises looking to address power, cooling, floor space and environmental (PCFE) issues while balancing IT server and storage resource performance, availability, capacity and energy (PACE) service levels to support the dynamic server and storage growth needs of Web 2.0 and unstructured data,” said Greg Schulz, senior analyst, The StorageIO Group. “A pre-configured, fully contained blade-based solution designed to optimize the amount of performance and capacity in a dense and energy efficient manner is a step in the right direction to address PCFE related issues and constraints.” Companies seeking to meet the demanding requirements of energy-efficient data center consolidation solutions in constrained environments can deploy the Verari FOREST container solution, a Flexible, Open, Reliable, Energy efficient, Scalable and Transportable data center, at a fraction of the cost per square foot of a traditional data center. “We’ve carefully engineered a solution that packages high density storage and compute blades with self-contained cooling into a portable data center that can be shipped virtually anywhere,” said David B. Wright, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Verari Systems. “The FOREST container solution is ideal for companies in need of space saving enterprise computing with increased energy efficient capacity. We’ve eliminated the need for expensive real estate to house a data center installation, as well as the permits to build them.” The Verari FOREST container solution makes use of the same industry-leading patented Vertical Cooling Technology that has established Verari Systems as the leader in energy-efficient cooling for blade-based solutions. Utilizing this technology has enabled Verari to improve data center efficiency by up to 110% over today’s standard brick-and-mortar data centers. Unlike comparable solutions, the Verari FOREST container solution makes use of this technology in a unique way allowing for regular rack-optimized equipment such as networking equipment and rackmount servers to be supported as well. At the core of the Verari FOREST container solution, the BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms support a wide array of Verari Systems compute and storage blades and makes use of the most powerful CPUs and highest capacity hard disk drives available in the market today. The BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms provide reliable and scalable density, without sacrificing high performance in an integrated solution.
“There are a growing number of enterprises looking to address power, cooling, floor space and environmental (PCFE) issues while balancing IT server and storage resource performance, availability, capacity and energy (PACE) service levels to support the dynamic server and storage growth needs of Web 2.0 and unstructured data,” said Greg Schulz, senior analyst, The StorageIO Group. “A pre-configured, fully contained blade-based solution designed to optimize the amount of performance and capacity in a dense and energy efficient manner is a step in the right direction to address PCFE related issues and constraints.” Companies seeking to meet the demanding requirements of energy-efficient data center consolidation solutions in constrained environments can deploy the Verari FOREST container solution, a Flexible, Open, Reliable, Energy efficient, Scalable and Transportable data center, at a fraction of the cost per square foot of a traditional data center. “We’ve carefully engineered a solution that packages high density storage and compute blades with self-contained cooling into a portable data center that can be shipped virtually anywhere,” said David B. Wright, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Verari Systems. “The FOREST container solution is ideal for companies in need of space saving enterprise computing with increased energy efficient capacity. We’ve eliminated the need for expensive real estate to house a data center installation, as well as the permits to build them.” The Verari FOREST container solution makes use of the same industry-leading patented Vertical Cooling Technology that has established Verari Systems as the leader in energy-efficient cooling for blade-based solutions. Utilizing this technology has enabled Verari to improve data center efficiency by up to 110% over today’s standard brick-and-mortar data centers. Unlike comparable solutions, the Verari FOREST container solution makes use of this technology in a unique way allowing for regular rack-optimized equipment such as networking equipment and rackmount servers to be supported as well. At the core of the Verari FOREST container solution, the BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms support a wide array of Verari Systems compute and storage blades and makes use of the most powerful CPUs and highest capacity hard disk drives available in the market today. The BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms provide reliable and scalable density, without sacrificing high performance in an integrated solution.