Dell Technologies World: Liqid Part of Dell OEM & IoT Solutions Portfolio

Liqid, Inc., provider of the composable infrastructure solutions and services, collaborated with Dell Technologies OEM & IoT Solutions to provide composable infrastructure solutions to enterprises across geographies and verticals.

Liqid demonstrated its adaptive datacenter technologies at Dell Technologies World, April 29-May 2, 2019.

“AI workloads represent a highly uneven series of compute processes in which data is moved from one system to the next depending on the task, with resources sitting idle much of the time. The cost associated with these architectural inefficiencies can make AI, edge computing, and other economy-driving technologies unsustainable for many users,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder, Liqid. “We are proud to work with Dell Technologies OEM & IoT Solutions to provide solutions based on our respective, award-winning technologies, delivering composable infrastructure that permit users to utilize a single, comprehensive, adaptive platform to increase utilization by at least 2-3X and reduce the data center footprint for high-value applications.“

Composable Infrastructure for AI and Machine Learning
Coupled with the Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio, Liqid delivers software-defined, composable resource allocation via its low-latency fabric to ensure increases in data agility, capacity and bandwidth. Leveraging pools of disaggregated GPUs, FPGAs, CPUs, NVMe storage and Intel Optane memory extension technologies, IT users can orchestrate balanced systems for each AI phase of data ingest, cleaning/tagging, training, and inference, while minimizing the datacenter footprint.

“Many organizations are looking for ways to integrate AI and machine learning into their IT infrastructure while avoiding the hardware sprawl and inefficiencies that often come with it,” said Ron Pugh, VP, Dell Technologies OEM & IoT Solutions. “Liqid now can provide its composable solutions for AI, based on trusted Dell EMC PowerEdge infrastructure and support, for IT users seeking to improve utilization and efficiency for data-intensive applications.“

IT users can onboard additional disaggregated resources through Dell EMC as their datacenter needs change, making composable Liqid and Dell Technologies OEM for hybrid architectures that span on-premises, cloud, edge, and other compute environments.

Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day Extra
To promote the partnership and educate Dell Technologies World attendees and the greater technology community on the benefits of composable infrastructure for AI, Liqid executives also presented at Gestalt IT‘s Tech Field Day Extra on May 1; livestream available here.

“With the ability to interconnect disaggregated datacenter resources across an intelligent fabric and manipulate bare-metal configurations on demand through software, Liqid delivers one of the most compelling composable infrastructure solutions in this critical space,” said Stephen Foskett, founder and organizer, Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT. “We look forward to hearing more of Liqid’s story at this year’s Dell Technologies World event and learning more about the benefits of composable infrastructure for on-premises and hybrid IT environments for AI.“