Verari announces its BR2-XM blade platform

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080318005443&newsLang=en and http://www.verari.com/bladeRack2_XM.asp
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verari Systems®, a premier developer of energy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, today announced the introduction of the BladeRack® 2 XM computing platform. The newest addition to Verari’s BR2 X-Series is the company’s densest platform yet with support for 96 blades which represents 33% additional capacity and an industry leading 768 processing cores per platform.

The unveiling of the BR2-XM platform continues Verari’s tradition of setting the standard in enterprise computing by redefining data center power efficiency and server density. The BR2-XM platform is engineered to provide a stable compute environment while eliminating CPU thermal throttling behavior. This innovative thermal management solution enables a wide range of blade options running the fastest, hottest processors at maximum performance.

“The BR2-XM platform addresses the dense computing applications in the financial market, which require more compute capacity and energy efficiency. Each trading day is a perfect storm as the volume of data increases, the sophistication of algorithms and business processes grow. With the introduction of BR2-XM, Verari Systems will continue to be the industry leader in overall performance, performance per watt and price/performance,” said David B. Wright, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Verari Systems. “The continued innovation of our blade server platforms demonstrates our ability to deliver compelling blade-based compute and storage solutions that will provide our clients investment protection for years to come.”

Very cool any innovation in the blade platform is welcome, the more informed we are about what the different vendors offer, the more I can ask my vendor, “when will you do that (or something similar), what’s you’re equivalent”, it’s only by knowing what options there are, that we can make informed decisions about the infrastructure and drive innovation and competition in the market.

Interestingly, Verari seem to have improved the thermal management of their blade servers, which is very cool, I remember the main concern deploying high performance blade servers was the associated cooling/power requirements; the viewpoint being that you might typically deploy up to 5 enclosures in a rack to avoid such issues, anything that can be developed to aid this has to be a good thing.