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Alliance Partnership Combines Complete Networking, Computing, and Storage Capabilities to Address Customer Business Objectives: 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 data center solutions by combining networking, computing, and storage capabilities. The integrated NetApp and Liquid Computing solution effectively offers customers a data center 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 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 can 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.” “Liquid Computing and NetApp are working together to provide our customers and partners with a fully integrated data center 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 data center resources. This delivers complete flexibility to dynamically provision and allocate resources in minutes to any specific application or business requirement.”