-- "We've built our complete business model based on the power,
performance, scalability and efficiency of Liquid Computing," said Abigail
Ransonet, founder of Abacus Data Exchange, a broadband wholesale business
that was designed to be a smart alternative to the traditional data center.
"Using LiquidIQ, we built our infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of a
traditional build-out in a 400 sq. ft. space instead of 10,000 sq. ft. The
dramatically lower recurring costs, along with our savings on hardware and
management, allow us to offer extremely competitive pricing for our
services."
-- "Speed is of the essence in order to remain competitive in today's
economy," said Chris Rader, founder of Rader Solutions, provider of
comprehensive management information solutions to the construction supply
industry. "With traditional data centers it typically took two to three
weeks to set up and support new customer applications. Now that we've
moved our data center into the Abacus Data Exchange, a move which took just
12 hours to complete thanks to the LiquidIQ platform, we are able to get
our customers up and running within 24 hours. You can't argue with that
kind of customer benefit."
-- "Our alliance with Liquid Computing helps our customers overcome
complexity in the data center with an innovative approach to dynamic
management of compute and storage assets," said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Together we help customers
rethink their data centers, 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."
LiquidIQ Raises the Bar
LiquidIQ management software, physical system characteristics, and
successful industry partnerships and integrations make it an ideal offering
for enterprises and service providers that need to frequently deploy new
applications or customer environments, routinely reconfigure IT
infrastructure, overcome IT staffing shortages by managing more with less,
rapidly provision network and server assets or verify and audit their
disaster recovery/business continuity solution:
-- LiquidIQ management characteristics -
-- Rapid provisioning: LiquidIQ's diskless and stateless Logical
Servers provides extremely rapid provisioning of servers and
associated networking. Templates can be copied and deployed in
minutes.
-- Verifiable disaster recovery and business continuity: LiquidIQ
provides verifiable business continuity as all application,
operating system and network data is stored externally on network
attached storage or SAN. Simple replication of this data will
provide business continuity at a second site.
-- LiquidIQ physical system characteristics -
-- High energy efficiency: LiquidIQ uses 20-30% less power to provide
the same processing power as equivalent clusters built using rack
mounts servers and switches.
-- High density footprint: LiquidIQ enjoys more that 6:1 ratio benefit
for floor space for an equivalent amount of computing and switching.
-- Hardware lifecycle management: LiquidIQ is based on a scalable
chassis and software design that allows new generations of processors
from different vendors to co-exist in the system and to be retired at
a rate determined by the business.
-- LiquidIQ partnerships - LiquidIQ is fully integrated with industry
offerings to make data center management easier. Partnerships with
Microsoft, VMware and NetApp ensure high performance, reliability
and future-proof development roadmaps for years to come. These
partnerships allow Liquid Computing to support virtually any type
of computing deployment imaginable, ensuring customers can deploy
a system that's easy to manage and modify.
"Everyone knows the current data center cost structure is untenable. But
while many vendors are delivering point solutions using additional
appliances or software overlays that offer marginal benefits at best, and
often result in increased complexity to manage, Liquid Computing made
virtualization of the entire data center -- compute, communications and
storage -- a reality," said Greg McElheran, CEO of Liquid Computing. "You
have to see it to believe it -- Liquid Computing will change the way
businesses think about data center computing."
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 data centers. LiquidIQ, the world's first fully converged
communications and computing platform, provides flexible pools of
computing, networking and switching resources and makes data center IT
infrastructure easy to manage. For more information, visit
www.liquidcomputing.com.
Contact Information: Press Contact: Elyce Ventura Eastwick Communications (650) 480-4054 media@liquidcomputing.com