Enabling the Digital Universe

I am constantly amazed by the amount of sheer data that we generate on a day to day basis. According to the International Data Group (IDC) 281 billion gigabytes of data was created in 2007 (up from 161 billion in 2006). This immense growth combined with growing environment concerns has created a dire need for ultra efficient, highly versatile and extremely dense blade-based storage solutions.

The “information superhighway” that was promised in the early 90s has come and gone, replaced by this exponentially expanding digital universe. The web has truly become the domain of the user, where everyone not only has a voice, but also a blog, YouTube account, FaceBook domain, online banking records and well, you get the picture. IDC estimates that this translates to approximately 45 gigabytes of data for every person on earth. Not only is that number growing but, obviously, so is the number of people on earth, expanding the digital universe even further.

That’s the first challenge to supplying the digital universe – the sheer size of it. At Verari Systems we have definitely taken up the challenge. Our FOREST container solution can provide just over 12 petabytes of storage capacity in a standard sized shipping container that is deployable nearly anywhere on earth. Our BladeRack 2 XL platform can support up to 672TB of storage capacity in just two data center floor tiles. Our nearest competitor can’t even come close to boasting that type of density. And the great thing about it is, like all Verari products, we have engineered these solutions to be the most efficient, resource saving products of their kind in the industry. Environment conservation is not part of our sales pitch – it’s the foundation of our culture and shows up in everything we do.

The second challenge to meeting the demands of the digital universe is the dynamic and diverse nature of the data. Each of our customers has a unique challenge and one size definitely does not fit all. With our new SB5165XL StorageServer we have the industry’s first high density, blade-based, all-in-one storage appliance that combines unified NAS and iSCSI SAN storage. This makes it an extremely cost-effective, easy to manage solution that is ideal for massive pools of unstructured data. For structured data that often requires extremely high availability we have our award-winning DataServer products which combine an ultra high density storage blade with a high performance compute node, eliminating networking bottlenecks and taking performance to new levels.