PRESS RELEASE
Verari Systems Extends 4Gb Fibre Channel Storage Offering
RoHS Compliant VSEM Four Gigabit Expansion Module Brings Increased Performance and Capacity While Lowering Acquisition Costs
By Mike LaPan (858) 874-3800
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – May 1, 2006 -- Verari Systems™, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent blade server systems, announced today the availability of the Verari Systems Expansion Module (VSEM), a new 16 drive, 4 gigabit per second expansion module for the VS7000 family of scalable, high performance storage systems.
Designed to accommodate today’s 2Gbps Fibre Channel disk drives as well as future 4Gbps Fibre Channel disk drives, the VSEM provides a 16-bay disk enclosure module for use with members of Verari Systems’ VS7000 family of storage systems. Upon initial introduction, the VSEM will provide up to 4.8 terabytes of physical capacity on high-performance Fibre Channel disk drives. Shortly after initial availability, the VSEM will also be available with high capacity Serial ATA (SATA II) drives boosting capacity up to 8 terabytes.
A VS7000 storage system utilizing the new VSEM expansion modules delivers increased density and capacity, up to 57.6TB of Fibre Channel or 96TB of SATA II disk capacity in a single 40U enclosure.
“Today’s announcement provides valuable benefits to the markets we serve by providing more flexibility and higher density. By reducing the number of expansion modules required for a given capacity requirement, the overall impact to our customers is a lower total acquisition cost. For large installations, the increased density of the VSEM has the added benefit of reducing the number of floor tiles required.” said David Driggers, CEO of Verari Systems. “Verari Systems is constantly looking for methods to provide our customers with the highest balanced system performance. The evolution to full 4Gb technology in the VS7000 family provides powerful benefits for applications demanding the highest file system performance.”
In addition to the density, capacity and performance enhancements afforded, the availability of the VSEM expansion module conforms the VS7000 family of storage systems to be fully compliant to the European Union RoHS (Removal of Hazardous Substances) directive. Mandated by the European Parliament and Council of the European Union, RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substances) requires that manufacturers reduce the usage of certain substances in electrical and electronic equipment by July 2006.
Verari Systems’ VS7000 storage systems provide the increased capabilities demanded by high performance computing environments that store and utilize vast amounts of data for high-bandwidth programs and complex application processing. Its powerful storage controllers and 4Gb per second interfaces are ideally suited for high performance cluster computing (HPCC) environments that utilize global namespace file systems to perform sophisticated, data-intensive research.
The Verari Systems VSEM 16-bay drive enclosure module has begun shipping and is available with optional features to meet NEBS level 3 requirements. For additional VSEM and VS7000 product information, http://www.verari.com/vs_storage.asp.
About Verari Systems
Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of powerful, flexible and scalable platform-independent blade-based compute and storage solutions that are defining a new era in enterprise and high performance utility computing for the data center. Organizations such as Akamai, CGGVeritas, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm and Sony Imageworks, as well as top universities and research institutions worldwide, are among the customers who have chosen Verari Systems' line of high density blade servers, modular storage blades, rack-optimized servers and award-winning software solutions. To learn more about Verari Systems and its unique solutions, please visit us on the web at http://www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.
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