Comments on: What Happens to Verari’s Technology? http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Robin Bollinger http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-13960 Robin Bollinger Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:18:01 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-13960 As an interested bystander, does anyone have a rough idea of price paid for the assets? As an interested bystander, does anyone have a rough idea of price paid for the assets?

]]> By: Friend of Verari http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-10070 Friend of Verari Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:31 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-10070 Verari is back... check out the release posted at www.verari.com. Rich, you should call them for an update. Verari is back… check out the release posted at http://www.verari.com. Rich, you should call them for an update.

]]> By: Another Ex http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9811 Another Ex Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:19:14 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9811 Actually, let's be accurate here. Two of the deep insiders are from Cray/TERA and were promoted heavily by DW, while 9 are DW friends from Amdahl or EMC or Legato (a tenth friend quit a year earlier or "retired")... http://www.verari.com/bios.asp Its nice that the pictures are still up. Future potential employers take note! Its interesting how much press this company failure has gotten compared to all the other HPC firms that died in 2009 and other recent years. Actually, let’s be accurate here.

Two of the deep insiders are from Cray/TERA and were promoted heavily by DW, while 9 are DW friends from Amdahl or EMC or Legato (a tenth friend quit a year earlier or “retired”)…

http://www.verari.com/bios.asp

Its nice that the pictures are still up. Future potential employers take
note!

Its interesting how much press this company failure has gotten compared to all the other HPC firms that died in 2009 and other recent years.

]]> By: Another Ex http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9303 Another Ex Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:25:44 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9303 Curious - 8 of the 16 are DBW cronies from Amdahl/EMC Curious – 8 of the 16 are DBW cronies from Amdahl/EMC

]]> By: Another Ex http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9302 Another Ex Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:22:35 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9302 Peace Owen. Verari, has (had) one of its biggest backlogs in the company's history. Bridge funding only went so far along with payroll cuts, etc. All other long-term investment avenues could not be arranged before Verari ran out of runway. Peace Owen.

Verari, has (had) one of its biggest backlogs in the company’s history. Bridge funding only went so far along with payroll cuts, etc. All other long-term investment avenues could not be arranged before Verari ran out of runway.

]]> By: Curious Bystander http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9218 Curious Bystander Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:04:21 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9218 Out of curiousity, I looked up Verari employees on LinkedIn, and was amazed at how top-heavy they seemed! Perhaps the "rank-and-file" people just aren't on LinkedIn (doubtful), but there was VP after VP... Sad to see Verari go. Out of curiousity, I looked up Verari employees on LinkedIn, and was amazed at how top-heavy they seemed!

Perhaps the “rank-and-file” people just aren’t on LinkedIn (doubtful), but there was VP after VP…

Sad to see Verari go.

]]> By: Owen Thistle http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9189 Owen Thistle Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:42:50 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9189 Clearly you are close to the situation and I have seen first hand what a top heavy poorly executing management team can do to a great company in its formidable stages of growth. I completely agree with your. Assement and am sure you are dead on. All I was mentioning was a commercial situation with a potentially huge customer that was dropping verari for the reasons I outlined and the Fact that the situation probably did not help.......one way to fix burn is cashflow from big sales. If your CEO had that business in the pipeline of even worse forecasted and it drops you can be sure it did not factor well with the likes of Carlyle in terms of continuing too fund verari's gap. That's all, it takes a confluence of circumstances to bring a good company like verari to its knees....poor management for sure and some sort of top line concern too.....if the sales growth is/was there then your investors would have stepped up or bridged the co to cashflow from sales. But like said it all points in one direction and you clearly articulated that. I am sorry for all the good folks there and hope new opportunities present themselves quickly for those that deserve them. Clearly you are close to the situation and I have seen first hand what a top heavy poorly executing management team can do to a great company in its formidable stages of growth. I completely agree with your. Assement and am sure you are dead on.

All I was mentioning was a commercial situation with a potentially huge customer that was dropping verari for the reasons I outlined and the Fact that the situation probably did not help…….one way to fix burn is cashflow from big sales. If your CEO had that business in the pipeline of even worse forecasted and it drops you can be sure it did not factor well with the likes of Carlyle in terms of continuing too fund verari’s gap. That’s all, it takes a confluence of circumstances to bring a good company like verari to its knees….poor management for sure and some sort of top line concern too…..if the sales growth is/was there then your investors would have stepped up or bridged the co to cashflow from sales. But like said it all points in one direction and you clearly articulated that.

I am sorry for all the good folks there and hope new opportunities present themselves quickly for those that deserve them.

]]> By: Another Ex http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9178 Another Ex Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:09 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9178 Uh, Mark. That’s the same line that Verari management had been doling out to the employees for months. That part about “just need money”, thats key. And, no entity to date has wanted to throw their cash down the porcelain convenience. Owen – I’m so sick of this. How do you propose that one customer they were at “risk of loosing (SIC)” could crash the company. Use some logic. Please. It’s obviously been poorly managed from a financial standpoint for several years. I suggest three years, since DW bled the cash out of the company to employ all his buds from Amdahl. Uh, Mark. That’s the same line that Verari management had been doling out to the employees for months. That part about “just need money”, thats key. And, no entity to date has wanted to throw their cash down the porcelain convenience.

Owen – I’m so sick of this. How do you propose that one customer they were at “risk of loosing (SIC)” could crash the company. Use some logic. Please. It’s obviously been poorly managed from a financial standpoint for several years. I suggest three years, since DW bled the cash out of the company to employ all his buds from Amdahl.

]]> By: Mark MacAuley http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9171 Mark MacAuley Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:47:59 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9171 I had a bunch of conversations with people yesterday and there is a plan to re launch, they just need money to clean up the broken glass, and keep producing/manufacturing on orders already placed. Bottom line - they will emerge a stronger more focused company. I had a bunch of conversations with people yesterday and there is a plan to re launch, they just need money to clean up the broken glass, and keep producing/manufacturing on orders already placed. Bottom line – they will emerge a stronger more focused company.

]]> By: Owen Thistle http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/14/what-happens-to-veraris-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-9162 Owen Thistle Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:12:15 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=19613#comment-9162 I hope we see Verari restructure and focus on the POD Container space where their aggregation and density performance shine. I did hear from an associate in Boston who has done some work with EMC's CIG BU that Verari was at risk of loosing this, what I would assume to be large and rapidly growing business because of management interface issues and VLAN support problems exposed by a network virtualization technology that EMC is using to automate their cloud data centers and service delivery for cloud computing. The dynamic changes created by the system ( I think it is LineSider) could not be handled by Verari and apparently Cisco has stepped in and works with LineSider technology. For this reason I doubt Cisco would bid for verari....too much overlap with Nexus and UCS also the loss of that business must have been a blow to Verari. Who knows maybe Brocade will add to the Foundry portfolio or someone like Emulex will make a diversification move with the leverage of base in storage. I hope we see Verari restructure and focus on the POD Container space where their aggregation and density performance shine.

I did hear from an associate in Boston who has done some work with EMC’s CIG BU that Verari was at risk of loosing this, what I would assume to be large and rapidly growing business because of management interface issues and VLAN support problems exposed by a network virtualization technology that EMC is using to automate their cloud data centers and service delivery for cloud computing. The dynamic changes created by the system ( I think it is LineSider) could not be handled by Verari and apparently Cisco has stepped in and works with LineSider technology. For this reason I doubt Cisco would bid for verari….too much overlap with Nexus and UCS also the loss of that business must have been a blow to Verari.

Who knows maybe Brocade will add to the Foundry portfolio or someone like Emulex will make a diversification move with the leverage of base in storage.

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