(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Verari Technologies announced on Tuesday it has rebranded to Cirrascale (www.cirrascale.com), as well as launching a new business that provides independent blade-based cloud computing and cloud storage platforms for conventional and containerized data centers.
The move marks a significant shift in focus for the data center equipment firm, in an effort to capitalize on the growing cloud computing market.
Verari put a stop to its operations on December 11th, laying off most of its staff in the process.
It later put its assets up for sale in a Credit Management Association-run auction, which were eventually purchased in January by an investment group led by co-founder Dave Driggers, who is now Cirrascale’s chairman and CEO.
Cirrascale will target customers buying at the data center and rack infrastructure level, across a range of storage and computing models including low-power micro-servers, high density storage, scale-out multi-core, HPC cluster and GP/GPU computing.
Customers are served by the same physical rack infrastructure that accommodates the customer-defined power, density and cooling requirements.
“Being able to base our cloud storage and compute products on Verari’s world class BladeRack 2 Series technology and FOREST containerized data center infrastructure puts us at the front of the pack to serve the demanding cloud customer,” says Marc Brown, president and COO of Cirrascale. “These products, based on Verari’s patented Vertical Cooling Technology, generated over $500 Million in installed systems in the high performance computing and enterprise markets; these customer segments are the foundation of the burgeoning cloud market of today. This technology is a winning formula for the cloud customer.”
