Comments on: InsideTrack: Verari Systems out of business [UPDATED]

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By: Inside Track: Employees at new Verari head for furlough as company struggles in recovery | insideHPC.com

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:16:42 +0000

[...] been a while since we wrote about Verari. You’ll recall that Verari Systems went out of business back in December and had to sell assets to pay creditors, laying off all their employees in the [...]

By: Verari auction in progress | insideHPC.com

Verari auction in progress | insideHPC.com — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:23:12 +0000

[...] since we broke the news that Verari was out of business earlier this month we’ve kept track of employees — who [...]

By: X in the room

X in the room — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:56:49 +0000

Yes it is a sad day to see the good people go from Verari. The writing was on the wall.
At first light of DW were the words “read Good to Great.” Unfortunately the book deals with companies who have cash to pay to put good people into positions to move the company forward. DW just does not have start-up vision. Maybe he did but the spark is long gone. He also did not possess the skills of a level 5 leader. A level 5 leader would not rip apart his VP’s infront of others due to his ego. I do believe that some of the VP’s were good. The only other major issue other than CEO was the VP of sales. Not sure if he suffered from the same lack of startup vision. All that we got were empty promises and no sense of reality.

By: One more Ex

One more Ex — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:21:49 +0000

Laid off from job because of reckless executive spending: – 65k/pr yr
Stiffed on paid time off: -$2500
Stiffed on last pay check: -$2200
My personal information stolen from Verari Human Resources and used for identity theft: f-ing priceless

Thank you for a Merry Christmas David B. Wright

By: One more Ex

One more Ex — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:19:46 +0000

Just in case there are other ex-Verari Systems’ employees who didn’t get this email and like me are using these news feeds to find out information.

From: Verari Systems [mailto:verari.systems@verari.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:50 PM
To: All Employees (Regardless of Location)
Subject: Notice Theft of Personnel Files

Dear Former Employee:

We regret to inform you that in the early morning hours of December 17, 2009, a laptop computer was stolen. The computer contained personnel information, including employee names, addresses and social security numbers. A police report was filed, and the authorities are seeking to recover the computer.

We wanted to promptly inform you of this theft and to encourage you to alert the credit rating agencies of possible fraud on your account.

You should contact the fraud units of the three principal credit bureaus, Equifax (www.equifax.com), Experian® (www.experian.com), and TransUnion(SM) (www.tuc.com) to request that your file be flagged with a “Fraud Alert”. Tell them to notify you before any new accounts are opened or any existing accounts are changed in your name.

By: Chace Jones

Chace Jones — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:32:13 +0000

I wonder what Verari’s VP of sales would say to his customers that are waiting to hear whats going on. Maybe they should ask him:
Vince 847-508-8507

By: foo

foo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:41:06 +0000

What about the warehouse? Do tell. I felt something was up ( as a former customer) when they wouldn’t give us spare blades and parts took forever to come in…

By: Another Ex

Another Ex — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:48:08 +0000

I see no comments from the people in the warehouse… I worked there years ago and couldn’t be happier that I no longer do. The Management at Verari was foolish to say the least. The environment in the warehouse for an employee should have risen a red flag to how all this was going to end. Blind eye turned to it all, hope the good people who worked there find something quick. Writing was on the wall years ago folks, all the good ones got out before all this hit the fan. Alot more in put but don’t want the risk of the truth bring on more issues.

By: Codename Zebra

Codename Zebra — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:08:42 +0000

I wouldn’t blame the majority of engineering I would blame whoever dictated that they were to design XE. They spent half a year and millions of dollars to get that up and running as quickly as possible and no one ever bought it. The same thing happened with FE.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:33:29 +0000

Unless you put Dave Driggers and Vic Hester back in charge of the company, it isn’t going to go anywhere EVER again. Those DW folks don’t have a clue on how to run a company without unlimited cash flow with no consequences. They are better off reading Dr. Seuss books to children at Barnes and Noble and trying to motivate them to go to preschool. Seriously every meeting that guy ever had, was pointless. Nobody understood what he was saying, and he didn’t have the balls to show his face for the past 3 months of company wide meetings. What kind of leader is that? He was like a broken record and did a tap dance to say everything was ok for the past year, when it wasn’t. It wasn’t just the DW staff that screwed over the company, it was the MAJORITY of the engineering staff that spent money like no tomorrow, complained if they didn’t have a massage chair at thier cube, they had steering wheels attached to thier desks and played guitar most of the day. NOT to mention thier smoke breaks that had to take up ATLEAST 95% of thier day. The company had such potential but was held back by OLD…really old business executives who liked to have company wide meetings for everything and everybody that ever quit,was hired, was promoted, was in the military, marching bands, etc. What a shame, such a waste!

By: Another Ex

Another Ex — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:12:24 +0000

Re: Last 2 posts . . . Read the previous posts by former employees. No loss of any particular customer caused the demise. Verari had a very healthy backlog of business on the books. Just no money to execute on fulfillment. Poor financial management by Verari execs in good economic conditions lead to a cash crisis as the economy worsened.

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.

Maybe now that Verari has stiffed their employees for back wages, expenses and options and reduced their debt by screwing over their suppliers the pig has lipstick. At least the container piece – assuming its not the same management.

By: cloudguy

cloudguy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:35:38 +0000

I don’t see CSCO buying Verari. One of their big customers was/EMC who is building their cloud infr using net virtualization from LineSider Tech..verari couldn’t extend to LineSider UCS/nexus already has and scaleability is being addressed

By: insideHPC exclusive with Verari CEO: “The doors are open.” | insideHPC.com

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:16:28 +0000

[...] with what employees were told at the all hands meeting last week (going by the comments on the original story, anyway). According to him, this is not a Chapter 7 or 11 proceeding, but it is a [...]

By: VerariWasCool

VerariWasCool — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:42:54 +0000

Mark,

How do you know there are 5? Where did you hear about the date Jan 15th? Where is the “list” of what’s for sale?

Lets say I wanted to buy something, how do I find out all the details?