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Verari Systems Wins HPCwire Readers' Choice Award

Verari Command Center cluster management and monitoring solution chosen by readers of HPCwire as the best price/performance solution available in 2006

By Mike LaPan (858) 874-3800


San Diego, Calif., (November 14, 2006) – Verari Systems™, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent blade computing and storage systems, today announced that it has been awarded the 2006 Readers’ Choice Award from HPCwire in the category of Best Price/Performance HPC Software Product. The Verari Command Center software solution was selected for the award by the readers of HPCwire.

Each year, HPCwire polls its global database of readers, contributing editors and industry luminaries to determine the winners of the awards. The HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through a survey and are given in two categories: (1) Readers' Choice, where winners have been determined by a random poll of HPCwire readers, and (2) Editors' Choice, where winners have been determined by votes of an advisory group and alumni panel of recognized luminaries, contributors and editors influential in the HPC ecosystem.

"Verari is honored to be recognized by both the readers of HPCwire and our customers for providing solutions that deliver the best price- performance balance," said Jennifer Skjellum, President of Verari Systems Software. "We're focused on continuing to provide innovative lights out blade management software that meets customer requirements for performance and scalability, while remaining price competitive.”

HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the ecosystem of High Productivity Computing. It is widely read by business and technology professionals who are interested in computationally and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. Past winners of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award include: Advance Micro Devices, Cray, Dell, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems.

For more information about the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards please visit: http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/awards/index.html.


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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