Dell Technologies World: Liqid Announces Unified Multi-Fabric Support and Command Center 2.2 Software

Liqid, Inc. announces unified multi-fabric support for composability across all major fabric types, including PCIe Gen 3, PCIe Gen 4, Ethernet, IB, while laying the foundation for the upcoming Gen-Z specifications.

The company’s upcoming release of its Command Center 2.2 software will enable IT users to dynamically compose servers from pools of CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, and NICs, regardless of underlying fabric type. This milestone makes Command Center Software a complete and adaptive solution. Version 2.2 extends the company’s capabilities to compose infrastructure across multiple fabric types while laying the foundation for future architectures.

“Providing Ethernet and IB composability in addition to PCIe is a natural extension of our leadership in fabric management and aligns with our mission to facilitate true data center disaggregation,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder, Liqid. “We are pleased to be able to offer our customers an increasingly flexible approach to composability by enabling Liqid Command Center with the simultaneous management of multiple fabric types. This is an important achievement towards delivering an industry-leading unified solution for multi-fabric composable infrastructure.“

Command Center Software enables dynamic, bare-metal composability utilizing pools off-the-shelf hardware connected across intelligently-managed fabrics. With the ability to compose across PCIe, Ethernet, and IB, the firm is increasing the utilization, flexibility, and ease of use of valuable data center resources. IT administrators can realize the benefits of on-demand, adaptive infrastructure composed simultaneously across multiple fabric types. Resources such as NVMe storage, GPUs, and FPGAs can be deployed across the data center as needed, via multiple fabrics, and monitored through a single pane-of-glass GUI or through REST API.

Additionally, the company is a member of the Gen-Z consortium and is actively enabling support for the new protocol in future releases of Command Center Software. In this way, the firm is ‘future-proofing’ fabric management for users who seek the performance and utilization efficiencies promised by composable infrastructure deployed with Gen-Z.

“Evolving artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads and new communication protocols such as 5G are pushing legacy data center architectures to a breaking point. These dynamic applications demand a dynamic and flexible data center framework,” said Eric Slack, senior analyst, Evaluator Group. “With the advent of composable infrastructure, and now with Liqid’s cross-composability on PCIe, Ethernet, IB and upcoming fabrics such as Gen Z, Liqid will drive the widest array of protocols for its comprehensive suite of composable infrastructure solutions.“

Command Center Software revision 2.2 enables: