Harsh manufacturing lines, cramped call centers, sensitive clean rooms, widely-dispersed transportation and oil & gas enterprises: all present computing challenges that result in low uptime and high operational costs. By centralizing the computing assets in a secure location, ClearCube delivers:
40% cost reduction due to better manageability
Stronger data and hardware security
99.9% uptime
More space where it is needed most
Call centers are space-limited environments that often operate beyond normal business hours. Although these sites require high uptime levels, maintaining after-hours IT support is not cost-effective. Executing organization-wide upgrades is also costly and time-consuming.
ClearCube is an ideal solution for call center representatives and IT staff. Users get more desk space, a noise-free environment and 99.9% uptime. IT administrators can perform repairs and organization-wide upgrades from a central location without disrupting users. For after-hours support, IT administrators can even manage users directly from home.
Delivering PC functionality to clean rooms is challenging because traditional computers circulate contaminants, emit heat, take up critical space and require protection against harsh cleaning agents. IT personnel must also risk polluting a sterile environment in order to perform on-site repairs and maintenance.
By centralizing all computing assets in a secure location, the ClearCube solution eliminates contamination, heat and space issues. Only a small access device (user port) remains in the clean room. The device has no fans or moving parts, emits little heat, and can be protectively sealed. In addition, IT administrators can remotely manage the entire deployment from their consoles, ensuring 99.9% uptime without ever entering the clean room.
Manufacturing environments expose computers to harsh conditions that can cause hardware failure. Since high uptime is critical to manufacturing processes, IT staff must go into a "fire drill" mode to perform repairs. Furthermore, many manufacturing facilities are located in remote areas that are difficult to support.
The ClearCube solution protects computing assets by centralizing the blades in a secure location. The user port that connects users to their blades is small, has no sensitive moving parts, and can be sealed in a NEMA enclosure. Leveraging Sentral™ management software, IT staff can manage both local and remote deployments from a single console.
Oil and gas enterprises operate a diverse system of work environments (business offices, research labs, refineries, oil rigs, etc.) that are distributed across the world. Companies must dispatch technicians to each site to perform repairs and maintenance, which is costly and time-consuming. Hardware ruggedness is also a concern in harsh environments like chemical refineries and offshore oil rigs.
With a centralized computing solution, enterprises can deliver 99.9% uptime without dispatching technicians to remote locations. Instead, IT administrators manage global deployments from a single console. Furthermore, centralized assets are protected from heat, dust, vibration, chemical exposure and user damage. The small user port that connects computing peripherals to the blade has no sensitive moving parts and can be sealed in a NEMA enclosure if needed.
ClearCube also offers a powerful, cost-effective grid computing solution for research and modeling.
Scheduling systems are critical to transportation enterprises; any amount of downtime can disrupt operations and result in loss of revenue. For enterprises with computing resources located in public areas (e.g., airports, train stations), hardware and data security is also a large concern.
The ClearCube solution delivers unprecedented security and 99.9% uptime levels. Since all computing hardware is located in a secure location, only authorized personnel can access the blades. If a blade should ever fail, IT administrators can use the Sentral™ management software to instantly reallocate the user to a "hot" spare blade. Sentral™ also enables organizations to manage their deployments from anywhere in the world.
In addition to meeting end user needs, the ClearCube solution is ideal for supporting public information display systems . A single blade can drive up to four separate displays or replicate a single video image on up to four displays.
