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June 09, 2008
Liquid Computing, NetApp Combine Computing, Storage, Networking
LOS ALTOS, Calif., and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2 -- Liquid Computing Inc., developer of LiquidIQ, the first fully virtualized communications and computing system, and NetApp today announced an alliance to provide customers with innovative datacenter solutions by combining networking, computing and storage capabilities.
The integrated NetApp and Liquid Computing solution effectively offers customers a datacenter in a box. Now customers can combine easy and non-disruptive management systems, enabling them to provide services without the complexity of day-to-day management or integrating individual nodes, disks, appliances, servers or networks.
"We're pleased to establish an alliance partnership with Liquid Computing that will help our customers overcome complexity in the datacenter with an innovative approach to dynamic management of compute and storage assets," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of solutions marketing at NetApp. "Together we can help customers rethink their datacenters, resulting in lower overall operating costs for our target industries. We are helping our customers and partners to speed deployment of applications, ease provisioning and management, and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets."
"Liquid Computing and NetApp are working together to provide our customers and partners with a fully integrated datacenter IT infrastructure that is dynamic and easy to manage," said Greg McElheran, president and chief executive officer of Liquid Computing. "Our integrated solutions will make everything -- servers, network switches, storage networking -- virtual, and provide customers a consistent and unified management view across all of their datacenter resources. This delivers complete flexibility to dynamically provision and allocate resources in minutes to any specific application or business requirement."
About Liquid Computing Inc.
Liquid Computing has delivered a new generation of IT infrastructure that is transforming the traditional server and switch configurations commonplace in datacenters. LiquidIQ, the world's first fully converged communications and computing platform, provides flexible pools of computing, networking, and switching resources and makes datacenter IT infrastructure easy to manage. For more information, visit www.liquidcomputing.com.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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Source: Liquid Computing Inc.; NetApp
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