San Diego, Calif. – April 16, 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 it was 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. Award winners were announced last night at a ceremony at Uptime Institute’s 4th Annual Institute Research Symposium: LEAN, CLEAN, and GREEN in New York City.

Verari Systems was selected as a winner for its innovation and leadership in driving sustainability initiatives and recognized for its second-generation FOREST Container solution based on Verari’s BladeRack® 2 X-Series platforms with patented Vertical Cooling Technology™.

“We congratulate and honor Verari Systems for its pioneering work in reducing energy consumption in its customer’s data centers,” said Kenneth G. Brill, founder and executive director of the Uptime Institute. “Verari’s successful initiatives serve as a great example to its industry peers of the realistic impact and feasibility of energy efficiency initiatives.” The GEIT Awards honor companies that have made significant strides in creating reliable, sustainable and energy-efficient data centers. All GEIT Awards winners presented case studies at the Institute’s symposium--LEAN, CLEAN and GREEN--of their award-winning initiatives for addressing the data center energy efficiency challenge. Verari shared lessons learned and its route to success to encourage its industry peers to be advocates of change in their own organizations. The GEIT Awards judging criteria were specifically designed to select projects with potential to serve as business case studies of the realistic impact and feasibility of energy efficiency initiatives.

“It is an extraordinary honor to be recognized for our green IT solutions by such an esteemed organization as the Uptime Institute,” said David B. Wright, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Verari Systems. “Verari’s innovative FOREST container is probably the best example of how eco-conscious data center environments can be created by combining the most energy efficient equipment with well designed facilities. Truly a ‘data center in a box’, FOREST is a green solution that is not only eco-friendly, but can dramatically lower power and cooling costs.”

Verari’s FOREST Containers are innovative, self-contained, portable data centers that house the BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms in an industry standard form factor (40’ x 8.0’ x 9.5’). Over 2,000 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 efficiency, as measured by DCiE, equals 90%, which leads the industry. FOREST Containers can be installed indoors or outdoors, in virtually any terrain and climate, and can accommodate other vendors’ equipment to support heterogeneous IT environments. FOREST Containers are architected for rapid deployment and are a natural fit for data center consolidation, migration, and disaster recovery projects.

For a complete description of how Verari Systems is enabling the Green Data Center of the Future, please visit www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.

About Verari Systems
Verari Systems, Inc. is the premier developer of energy efficient data center and desktop consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based compute and storage solutions 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, 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 visit www.verari.com or call (888) 942-3800.

About the Uptime Institute
The Uptime Institute is a leading independent think-tank, corporate advisor, knowledge exchange, education and professional-services provider, serving the owners and operators of the world’s largest enterprise data centers. Its primary area of expertise is the uptime availability, reliability, and resiliency of enterprise computing within formal critical computing environments--computer rooms, server farms and ranches, and data centers. The Institute operates a private knowledge network, the Site Uptime Network that conducts research, benchmarking, knowledge sharing, and best practices for its members, who represent 100 of the largest data center owning/operating institutions in the world. The Institute’s intellectual property base includes the de facto industry standard for data-center design, known as the Tiers Classification System and the Four Metrics for Determining a Green Data Center.

Media Contact: Patty Tredway, Antenna Group for Uptime Institute, 415.977.1933, patty@antennagroup.com

Uptime Institute Symposium Contact: Trevor Daul, Uptime Institute, 505.946.3462, tdaul@uptimeinstitute.org

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

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