Fabric Computing Architecture

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 is 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 data-center infrastructure, 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 costs compared to the current mode of operation. You will experience savings due to the significant decrease 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); providing application high availability; footprint reduction; reconfiguration; power reduction; and using less staff.