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<title><![CDATA[Is Verari Shutting Down?]]></title>
<link>http://gigaom.com/2009/12/11/is-verari-shutting-down/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stacey Higginbotham</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gigaom.com/2009/12/11/is-verari-shutting-down/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Verari&#39;s FOREST Container Twitter, InsideHPC and others are indicating that blade server and sto]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://twitter.com/VerariGuy"></a></p>
<div id="attachment_85816" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 198px"><a href="http://gigaom.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/cont_big_beauty.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-85816" title="Cont_Big_Beauty" src="http://gigaom.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/cont_big_beauty.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="188" height="153" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Verari&#39;s FOREST Container</p></div>
<p>Twitter, <a href="http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/11/insidetrack-verari-systems-out-of-business/">InsideHPC</a> and <a href="http://verarialumni.com/about.html">others </a> are indicating that blade server and storage startup Verari Systems is being shut down today. My calls to the company were answered by a receptionist named Sarah who hung up on me the first time I asked about the company&#8217;s fate, and who replied, &#8220;I have nothing to say,&#8221; before hanging up on me again when I called back. Emails to the company have not been returned. However just 10 days ago Verari said it had been <a href="http://www.verari.com/news/archive/PR120109.asp">selected to provide its containerized data center products for NASA&#8217;s</a> Nebula cloud computing platform.</p>
<p>Verari has raised more than $54 million from investors that include Sierra Ventures, Carlyle Venture Partners, Voyager Capital and Celerity Partners. If Verari has indeed been closed, it will join the ranks of some other massively funded companies chasing a hardware dream such as <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/05/28/on-the-block-sicortexs-delorean-style-green-supercomputer/">SiCortex</a> or <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/04/01/silicon-graphics-sold-to-rackable-for-peanuts/">SGI</a>, which both were shut down this year. This has me wondering what the fates, or investors, have in store for other specialty hardware players such as <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/09/09/blade-network-rides-oem-deals-to-230m-valuation/">BLADE Networks</a> or <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/11/04/if-the-data-center-is-the-computer-the-fight-is-on-to-control-the-ecosystem/">Liquid Computing</a> or some of the newer, stealthier specialty hardware companies such as <a href="http://www.seamicro.com/">SeaMicro</a> and <a href="http://www.smooth-stone.com/">Smooth Stone</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[TechBirmingham lives!]]></title>
<link>http://curtispalmer.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/techbirmingham-lives/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cp</dc:creator>
<guid>http://curtispalmer.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/techbirmingham-lives/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It took a little extra time, but TechBirmingham installed its new 2008 Board of Directors this after]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[It took a little extra time, but TechBirmingham installed its new 2008 Board of Directors this after]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Energia Sob Controle]]></title>
<link>http://petrosky.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/energia-sob-controle/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Petrosky</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Otimização de todo o consumo de energia a cargo de um centro de dados que além da visão estatística ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h3><a href="http://petrosky.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/scry-3d-view.jpg"><img class="alignleft alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-193" style="float:left;" src="http://petrosky.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/scry-3d-view.jpg?w=128" alt="Scry 3D View" width="128" height="73" /></a>Otimização de todo o consumo de energia a cargo de um centro de dados que além da visão estatística dá um panorama geral do ambiente monitorado em 3D.</h3>
<p>Objetivo: quanto maior o grau de quantificação de informações, principalmente dentro de uma grande empresa, maior o poder de gerenciamento e tomada de decisões a qualquer momento. <!--more--></p>
<p>Isso é o que preconiza <a href="http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/01/microsoft-shows-off-scry-chicago-data-center-video/">Scry</a>, um novo produto da Microsoft ao ambiente corporativo. Outros concorrentes de mercado têm também suas vantagens, como o rebatizado <a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/29/sun_rebrands_blackbox_as_sun_md.html">Sun MD </a>, Rackable Systems <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/rackable_ice/">ICE Cube</a> e novo <a href="http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/05/verari-systems-enters-data-center-wheel-estate-market/">Verari FOREST</a>.</p>
<p>O centro de dados da Microsoft tem um diferencial na sua apresentação: é possível visualizar a infraestrutura física da distribuição do sistema monitorado provendo idéia geral das diversas instalações em visualização tridimensional. O programa permite percorre todos os setores controlados enquanto os dados são aferidos continuamente.</p>
<p>O Scry pode controlar todos os aspectos operacionais de tecnologia da informação dentro de uma empresa.</p>
<p>Itens como consumo de energia e suas variações ao longo das instalações, medição da quantidade de energia gasta com um único produto, por exemplo, para rodar o produto Hotmail dentro da Microsoft. Numa empresa poluidora, o nível de emissão de carbono ao longo do processo produtivo, controle de poluentes e degetos. Picos de energia e as contas derivadas bem como suas previsões, emissão de efluentes, refrigeração de água e controle de temperatura em várias ambientes de trabalho, gasto de energia em servidores, computadores, periféricos etc. Assim, o software reúne todas as informações num banco de dados capaz de trabalhar tudo de forma integrada. O programa pode apresentar o resultado de forma simplificada na sua interface inicial mas também pode pormenorizar analiticamente cada item em questão.</p>
<p>Michael Manos, Diretor Sênior dos serviços do Centro de Dados da Microsoft, apresenta em dois vídeos o novo produto. O primeiro, uma explanação resumida sobre as tarefas que o Scry pode controlar:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/b6uFViHdLgE&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/b6uFViHdLgE&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Aqui, a imaginação é associada à animação 3D que percorre instalações de uma planta controlada pelo Scry, deixando claro o espaço físico ocupado por cada componente; idéia do controle &#8220;ambientalizado&#8221;.</p>
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<p>Produto recentemente exposto na conferência da <a href="http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid80_gci1307821,00.html">AFCOM</a>.</p>
<p>A complexidade da dinâmica do volume de informações num ambiente corporativo de médio ou grande porte tem que estar sob comando de um gerenciador de dados capaz de aferir passo a passo todas as informações operacionais importantes e, por conseguinte, permitir racionalização de energia ou, por falta desta, evitar paralisações, traduzindo-se em economia significativa.</p>
<p>Petrosky</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A third way for internet infrastructure]]></title>
<link>http://storageinsider.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/a-third-way-for-internet-infrastructure/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pete Steege</dc:creator>
<guid>http://storageinsider.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/a-third-way-for-internet-infrastructure/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The future of the internet infrastructue is not pizza boxes or Big Iron Om Malik poses a question: W]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>The future of the internet infrastructue is not pizza boxes or Big Iron</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/12/18/pizza-boxes-are-power-hogs/">Om Malik </a>poses a question: Will the inefficiency of &#8220;pizza box&#8221; servers push the internet infrastructure back to Big Iron? </p>
<p>No way. </p>
<p>What we&#8217;re seeing is the creation of a new market, with unique requirements.  What&#8217;s needed is Cheap Scale &#8211; thousands of servers, scalable at the drop of a hat.  And tons of storage.  </p>
<p>I had a great conversation with Stephen DiFranco at AMD on this exciting space just yesterday.  He sees a classic new market dynamic, where custom solutions have been developed in-house by web hosting firms.  Their technology is their &#8217;special sauce&#8217;, but as the industry matures and grows, the solutions mature and standardize as well.  </p>
<p>Vendor solutions are already going beyond the pizza box.  <a href="http://www.verari.com/">Verari Systems</a> and <a href="http://www.rackable.com/">Rackable Systems </a>have been leaders here, but the solutions are just beginning to evolve. </p>
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