Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that Liquid Computing has joined the Vyatta Ready™ Partner Program. Liquid Computing’s LiquidIQ has passed interoperability testing with Vyatta software and is now approved as Vyatta Ready. The combination of technologies provides data center customers with a high-performance networking and computing infrastructure with better manageability and lower costs than other legacy solutions.

Vyatta combines networking protocol and security functions, such as router, firewall, and VPN, into an integrated, reliable, and commercially supported software solution that delivers twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. LiquidIQ is the world’s first Fabric Computing architecture system, which delivers a pool of physical compute, memory, and I/O resources that can be dynamically configured into logical datacenter infrastructure. LiquidIQ is an ideal service delivery platform for next generation virtual IP services. Liquid Computing and Vyatta have teamed to create joint sales and marketing programs for enterprises and service providers.

“We are very pleased to be working with Vyatta and are proud to have our system approved as Vyatta Ready,” said Greg McElheran, CEO of Liquid Computing. “Using Liquid IQ and Vyatta, service providers can generate additional revenue while lowering their costs. Just as they have benefited by offering customers shared computing infrastructure, they can now offer virtualized router and firewall applications. Virtualized compute infrastructure is no longer sufficient - all aspects of data center infrastructure need to be virtualized.”

The Vyatta Ready partner program has created an ecosystem around the company's secure, open-source routing solution to accelerate industry-wide adoption. The program targets value-added resellers (VARs) and independent hardware and software vendors (IHVs and ISVs). The program assures users that Vyatta Ready products and services have been tested and approved to work well with the Vyatta software.

“With LiquidIQ now approved as Vyatta Ready, customers who already enjoy the proven performance and cost advantages of our open-source networking solution, can confidently build out a LiquidIQ infrastructure to increase performance, reduce costs, or virtualize on a massive scale,” said Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta. “The combination of Vyatta and LiquidIQ allows customers to build a huge network computing cluster that delivers all the power and performance required for a state-of-the-art data center, but without the high-cost and inflexibility of today’s proprietary routers and typical 1U rackmount servers.”