Blade Watch

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SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verari Systems®, a premier developer of energy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms and independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, today 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.

Very cool, these kind of solutions could be great for virtualization projects, as well as handling those short term IT infrastructure needs. I still love the idea of deploying them in the company car park for those development grid/hpc applications, plug it in and press go. Saying that though, they could be the ultimate way of ‘re-commisioning’ that data center, using the portable data center to consolidate on to, in order to restructure or rebuild your data center to bring in a new layout, new cabinets or improve the air flow? Do check it out, it’ll be interesting to see what user groups choose these portable data centers.

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