Verari Launches Forest Container

SAN DIEGO -- Verari Systems, a premier developer ofenergy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms andindependent blade-based computing and storage solutions, today unveiled theVerari FOREST container solution, a portable data center that can be rapidlydeployed wherever extremely power-efficient compute and storage solutionsare needed. The Verari FOREST container solution is designed to house up to1400 blade-based compute servers or nearly 12 petabytes of blade-basedstorage by utilizing Verari¹s BladeRack® 2 X-Series platforms in a modularunit. Verari is the market leader in blade storage, shipping over 30petabytes in 2007.

"There are a growing number of enterprises looking to address power,cooling, floor space and environmental (PCFE) issues while balancing ITserver and storage resource performance, availability, capacity and energy(PACE) service levels to support the dynamic server and storage growth needsof Web 2.0 and unstructured data," said Greg Schulz, senior analyst, TheStorageIO Group. "A pre-configured, fully contained blade-based solutiondesigned to optimize the amount of performance and capacity in a dense andenergy efficient manner is a step in the right direction to address PCFErelated issues and constraints."

Verari Systems Inc.