LiquidIQ Enables Users to Alter the Physical Characteristics of Hardware Underlying Microsoft Hyper-V, Creates Dynamic Data Center

LOS ALTOS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/08/08 -- Liquid Computing, developer of the world's first fully converged communications and computing platform, today announced that its LiquidIQ solution supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. LiquidIQ, a converged solution that combines standard physical data center resources with sophisticated management and control software, can be tightly integrated with Hyper-V to create dynamically adjustable server resource pools that match workload needs and minimize under-utilized assets.

Capabilities of Microsoft Hyper-V technology, which include the ability to tailor the utilization of server resources and provide more IT flexibility through the use of Virtual Machines, are often constrained by the inherent limitations of rack mount servers and their associated I/O architectures. The LiquidIQ system enables users to create a highly dynamic data center by allowing them to easily alter the physical characteristics -- processor, memory and networking components -- of the LiquidIQ Logical Server hardware underlying a Hyper-V instance by simply editing its software attributes.

"Liquid Computing's LiquidIQ complements the powerful virtualization capabilities offered by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V," said Zane Adam, senior director of integrated virtualization at Microsoft. "The combination of these offerings provides customers with the fundamental virtualization infrastructure for their businesses and improved business agility for a more dynamic data center."

The Liquid Computing system provides the following benefits:

--  Rapid provisioning - LiquidIQ's diskless and stateless logical servers
    provide extremely rapid provisioning of servers and associated networking.
    Templates can be copied and deployed in minutes.
--  Verifiable disaster recovery and business continuity - The system
    provides verifiable business continuity as all application, operating
    system and network data is stored externally on Network Attached Storage
    (NAS) or on Storage Area Networks (SANs).