SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 its Reseller Program with Continental Resources (CRI), headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. CRI also has local resources covering New England, Chicago, Connecticut, DC, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia and Texas. Verari selected CRI as a reseller for its technical expertise and knowledge in planning and implementing integrated data center solutions across multiple industries.

The Reseller Program includes all Verari products and services and further enhances Verari’s holistic approach to delivering IT solutions based on its patented Vertical Cooling Technology™. Based on a high velocity stream of cool air that drives away the hot air created by high performance components, Verari’s Vertical Cooling Technology solves data center cooling problems in the highest density compute/storage environments. By providing a superior cooling solution, Verari prevents CPU throttling, which sustains higher performance and availability.

“Verari has selected Continental Resources as the only national reseller for its data center solutions based on the industry-leading BladeRack® 2 X-Series, FOREST Container and DataValet™ Web 2.0 storage solutions,” said Gerry Conboy, vice president and general manager of Verari Financial Services Group and Partners, Verari Systems. “This is a significant step that provides our customers with a comprehensive, one-stop data center resource that includes implementation and systems integration services and multi-vendor equipment. Continental Resources’ team of IT professionals has proven experience designing and operating mission-critical applications. For over four decades, they have garnered industry respect by winning customer satisfaction awards from partners, such as Cisco, year after year.”

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.

Verari’s DataValet storage solution offers breakthrough capabilities for fixed content storage. Data such as business records, product documentation, images, video, web pages, and medical imaging and records growth are not suited for traditional, expensive SAN or NAS storage. DataValet provides a scalable, high density, and cost-effective clustered storage environment for massive amounts of unstructured data for both active and archive/compliance applications.

“By becoming an integral part of Verari’s Reseller Program and offering assessment, planning and installation services for the FOREST Container and DataValet storage solutions, we are providing Verari customers the necessary technical and business support for seamless, successful data center implementations,” said Jim McCann, Jr., president, Continental Resources. “Our professional services will meet customers involving IT and business needs as they shift toward modular data centers and dense, cost-effective storage solutions for mountains of unstructured data.”

About Continental Resources, Inc. (CRI)

With over 45 years of industry experience, CRI is among the most established technology solutions providers. Building on a significant network of relationships with elite technology providers, CRI configures, integrates, and supports servers, storage, networking solutions, VoIP, datacenter and other infrastructure solutions to business, government and academia. A breadth of resources combines with experience to maximize the ROI on technology investments for customers nationwide.

About Verari Financial Services Group

Verari Financial Services provides flexible, one-stop lease financing solutions for all asset classes. VFS leases can include hardware, software and professional services, as well as other kinds of property such as data centers and buildings. By providing low interest, “pay-as-you-grow” leasing solutions that match lease payments with expected project returns, VFS makes it easier for customers to evaluate, approve and begin IT projects. VFS provides trade-in, technology refresh and asset recovery services designed to help customers manage shortening technology life cycles. To learn more about Verari Financial Services, please visit http://www.verarifinancial.com.

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 http://www.verari.com or call 888-942-3800.

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