Liquid Computing and NetApp to Deliver Innovative and Integrated Data Center Solution

Business Wire, June 2, 2008

Alliance Partnership Combines Complete Networking, Computing, and Storage Capabilities to Address Customer Business Objectives

LOS ALTOS, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Liquid Computing, Inc., developer of LiquidIQ, the first fully virtualized communications and computing system, and NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today announced an alliance to provide customers with innovative data center solutions by combining networking, computing, and storage capabilities.

The integrated NetApp[R] 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."

About the NetApp Partner Program

The NetApp Partner Program provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers benefit by having access to best-of-breed partner solutions that are tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information on the NetApp Partner Program is available at http://www.netapp.com/partners/become/join.html.

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.

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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