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STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Liquid Computing, a leader in unified computing infrastructure for the dynamic data center, today announced that Virtuoso®, the leading luxury travel network, has standardized on the LiquidIQ unified computing system for hosting the web-based services it provides to its network of upscale travel agencies. Virtuoso comprises over 300 agencies with over 6,000 elite travel specialists, and more than 1,000 travel providers and destinations worldwide.

Virtuoso made the decision to transition to LiquidIQ as part of an IT modernization initiative designed to support the company’s aggressive plans to grow its business while driving cost efficiencies. LiquidIQ tightly integrates with NetApp to replace a complex assortment of server, network, storage, and virtualization technologies that were becoming increasingly costly to manage and align in response to business needs. A fully integrated “data center in a chassis,” LiquidIQ drives down the time and cost of managing IT infrastructure through unified, software-based control of all resources.

“Our plan is to grow revenue ten-fold in the next five years while at the same time reducing our operating costs, and LiquidIQ was the only platform that could support our goals,” said Joel Chaplin, CIO, Virtuoso. “Liquid Computing won out over competing solutions because they provide the same consolidation advantages but also provide superior control, enabling us to more efficiently scale and manage our operations. By moving to LiquidIQ, we’re lowering our operating costs by as much as 80 percent from reductions in footprint, power consumption and administrative overhead.”

The LiquidIQ platform enables Virtuoso to solve its biggest IT operational challenge of maintaining and deploying clean server configurations when provisioning new equipment or when moving the application between environments, such as from test and development to production or from production to a disaster recovery site. With the LiquidIQ platform, all key server attributes are encapsulated in user-defined profiles, stored in a secure database, and can be deployed on any physical server within the chassis in minutes. Virtuoso assessed virtualization technology, but quickly determined that it would not be able to support the requirements of the company’s applications.

Adopting the right technologies for your business remains key, having the right range of functionality and scalability to enable your IT to move in line with the business requirements can be a transforming opportunity, whether it’s open source, virtualization or application transformation is irrelevant, that it works is all that matters. I’m off to check out LiquidIQ.

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