Major Cloud Services Provider with Worldwide Operations Selects Verari Systems’ Award-Winning Energy Efficient FOREST Container

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Commitment to environmental sustainability leads to major cloud services provider deployment of Verari Systems’ blade servers and storage in containerized data center solution

ByMike LaPan(858) 874-3800

San Diego, Calif. – July 28, 2009- Verari Systems®, a premier developer of independent blade-based computing and storage platforms for the data center with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that a major cloud services provider -- with worldwide operations -- has deployed a second-generation Verari FOREST Container to support its popular cloud services platform. Selected for its alignment with the cloud services provider’s commitment to environmental sustainability, Verari’s award-winning FOREST Container maximizes flexibility while cutting energy costs exponentially and boosting computing performance to new levels.

“This particular customer was seeking a flexible data center solution that could be deployed quickly and could reduce energy consumption, waste, and operating costs while increasing efficiency and ROI,” said Dan Gatti, senior vice president of Worldwide Market Operations, Verari Systems. “With its focus on effective resource utilization, the Verari FOREST Container was purpose built to deliver the most energy efficient solution to meet that criteria and demonstrated immediate results that produced significant savings.”

Verari’s FOREST Containers house the BladeRack® 2 X-Series platforms in an industry standard form factor (40’ x 8.0’ x 9.5’). Up to 2,880 servers or 13 Petabytes of storage capacity can be deployed at about 50% of the capital and operating expense of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. Energy spending is dramatically reduced by the Verari FOREST Container’s ultra efficient power subsystems and patented Vertical Cooling Technology™, boosting reliability, density, and performance. Verari’s FOREST Container was recently selected as a winner in the Energy Efficient Products: Facilities category of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, presented by the Uptime Institute and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

In a report issued in October 2008, IDC estimates the cloud infrastructure market at being close to $42 billion by the end of 2012. This has driven particularly large cloud services providers to containerized solutions for reasons of environment, speed of deployment, reduction of waste, density, and perhaps most importantly, the reduction of TCO, when compared to brick-and-mortar data centers. Verari’s FOREST Containers play a vital role in these cloud provider’s ongoing efforts to meet these business goals.

About Verari Systems

Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of independent blade-based computing and storage platforms for the data center with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market that are defining a new era in the green data center. Verari Systems is a market leader in blade storage and energy efficient platforms. Organizations such as Virgin America, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Akamai, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Johns Hopkins, EMC, CGGVeritas, Petrobras, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Sony Imageworks, as well as top universities and research institutions worldwide, are among the customers who have chosen Verari Systems’ line of award-winning high density blade storage and servers, rack-optimized platforms and software solutions. To learn more about Verari Systems and its unique solutions, please visitwww.verari.comor call (888) 942-3800.

Verari Systems, the Verari Systems logo, Vertical Cooling Technology, FOREST, and BladeRack are trademarks or registered trademarks of Verari Systems Incorporated. All other names or marks are property of their respective owners.

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