Every Blade System You Buy Today is Already Obsolete.

At the October 2007 Gartner IT Symposium/Expo, Carl Claunch, VP Distinguished Analyst of Gartner identified Fabric Computing as one of the “Top 10 Technologies” for 2008. John Enck, Research VP of Gartner, also stated that Fabric Computing “Is where we [the industry] are heading”, he further noted that “Liquid Computing is delivering this today”.

Why all the excitement about Fabric Computing?

Fabric Computing systems solve fundamental issues in the datacenter today, including asset under-utilization, management complexity, inflexibility and spiraling operating costs.

What is a Fabric Computing Architecture (FCA) system?

FCA provides reconfigurable pools of computing, communications and storage resources connected to a highly available, high performance, scalable communications fabric. LiquidIQ s the world’s first true FCA product. FCA enables LiquidIQ to deliver the world’s first Software Defined Real Time Infrastructure (SD-RTI). Pools of standard physical resources (processors, memory, IO, storage and networking) can be utilized and managed as software defined datacenter nfrastructure, including servers, routers, VLANs, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load balancers, subnets and VPN gateways. SD-RTI automatically manages the complexity associated with underlying physical and networking resources transparent to the applications (e.g. IP addresses, VLAN IDs, block storage devices, MACs and hypervisors).

How is a FCA different than a Blade?

According to Gartner, blade systems available today from HP, IBM, Sun are “intermediate forms” on the path to Fabric Computing Architecture systems. Today’s blade products are simply a different form factor of 1U servers with a chassis delivering cabling reduction, common power and cooling.

What benefits can FCA deliver to me?

LiquidIQ delivers significant savings in operation and acquisition cost compared to current mode of operation. You will experience savings due to the significant reduction in complexity since fewer components (including networking, computing, cabling, adjuncts, and overlay software) are required. Savings also come due to the elimination in costs associated with: delivering a given workload (due to higher efficiencies and utilizations); delivering application high availability; footprint
reduction; reconfiguration; power reduction; and staff reduction.

About Liquid Computing

Liquid Computing builds, sells and supports the LiquidIQ® fabric computing system. This new
class of computing system is built to meet the needs of scalable computing users within Commercial
Enterprise, Service Provider, Energy, Government, HPC and Telecom markets. LiquidIQ is an
award winning system that delivers a set of managed high performance computing and communications
resources that are fully virtualized, dynamically configurable and highly available. For more
information, visit www.liquidcomputing.com.