PRESS RELEASE
Verari Systems to Roll Out New Intel Xeon Processor-Based Blade Servers
By Mike LaPan, (858) 874-3800
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- August 2, 2004 -- Verari Systems™, the premier developer of powerful, platform-independent blade computing systems, announced today that it will offer BladeRack® blade server systems based on the Intel® Xeon™ processor running at 3.60 GHz with 800 MHz system bus and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T).Verari Systems' flexible and scalable platform-independent architecture ensures seamless incorporation of the latest in next generation high-performance technology.
"We are pleased to have Verari Systems delivering blade servers based on the very latest Intel Xeon processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, " said Richard Dracott, Intel Enterprise Platforms General Manager. "These newest configurations take full advantage of the most recent platform innovations for optimum performance, including 800MHz system bus, PCI Express and DDR2 memory, which will enable BladeRack® to continue driving ever increasing compute densities."
“Verari Systems' standards-based architecture and patented thermal management technologies allow us to package our BladeRack® blade servers with the highest performance Intel Xeon processors available today in the densest form factor possible,” said David Driggers, CEO of Verari Systems. “Our customers will now run 64-bit applications on Intel-based systems with dramatically higher performance.”
Verari Systems’ BladeRack® blade server consists of 66 dual processor compute nodes and the company’s patented Vertical Cooling System™, which enables the world’s fastest microprocessors to perform in the highest density, highest performance blade environment available on the market today. Combined with the Verari Command Center software, which extends systems management with the capability to provision systems software, applications and updates across blade servers, the BladeRack® is a powerful high performance computing system for grid and utility computing.
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.
