Verari Releases Green Storage Blades

November 14, 2007: Blade-based storage systems developer Venari Systems has released its latest line of data servers, claiming industry leading storage density and dramatic power savings thanks to new Western Digital enterprise-class SATA drives.

Verari says its new SB5255 DataServer will hit the street this quarter, combining Western Digital’s much heralded Greenpower technology with new efficiencies found its BladeRack 2 architecture. The company claims that thanks to this partnership, the joint solution it is delivering with WD enables dramatic power savings with industry-leading density.

And Verari is keen to emphasise these dramatic savings, claiming the system can deliver up to 50 percent reductions in energy use, while providing up to 77 percent more floor space than traditional server and storage systems.

The industry’s first high-density blade-based system to incorporate GreenPower drives, namely the one terabyte WD RE2-GP. Each BladeRack 2 can accommodate up to twenty-two 24 terabyte SB5255 DataServers, each with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 Series processors, translating to 176 processor cores and over a half a petabyte of data storage in two computer room floor tiles.

“After evaluating products from other disk drive vendors, we chose WD’s one terabyte WD RE2-GP drive because it offers the best value and performance while saving an average of $10 per drive per year in energy costs,” said David Driggers, CTO and Founder of Verari Systems.

“When combined with the power and cooling efficiency of the BladeRack 2, a two petabyte SB5255 configuration can save our customers up to $450,000 in energy costs in just three years.”

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