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For mission-critical environments such as financial services firms, the ClearCube centralized computing solution delivers unmatched availability and hardened security. In addition, ClearCube reduces annual desktop operating expenses by 40% ( IDC study ).
- 99.9% user uptime: Banks, insurers and trading floors demand the highest levels of user uptime. The ClearCube solution maximizes end user productivity by delivering 99.9% uptime.
- Exceptional physical & data security: Financial services firms need strong security to comply with federal privacy and asset management regulations such as the Gramm Leach Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts. The ClearCube solution secures physical and data assets by centralizing them in a secured location controlled by IT staff.
- Better management of remote locations: Dispersed branches, remote offices and offshore sites require the same high service levels as corporate offices. The centralized ClearCube solution improves manageability by eliminating on-site repairs and maintenance.
- 40% productivity improvement: By minimizing the time IT personnel spend on trips to the desktop, moves/adds/changes (M/A/Cs), upgrades and support, ClearCube dramatically improves productivity.
- Improved end user work environment: Desk space is limited on trading floors and in branches. The small ClearCube user port enhances the workspace and improves user satisfaction.
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Traders require powerful PC workstations that are always up and running. Since even a minute of downtime can result in lost revenue, IT administrators must perform repairs, M/A/Cs and maintenance as quickly as possible. Trading floors must also contend with space restrictions, security requirements and noise and heat issues.
ClearCube blade workstations (Intel® Pentium™ or Dual Xeon™) are housed in a secure location that the IT staff controls. Traders gain a work environment that is free of clutter, noise and heat. IT administrators can deliver 99.9% uptime levels, perform repairs and maintenance, and execute M/A/Cs without disrupting the traders.
read more about leveraging ClearCube for trading floors
Trading Floors Success Stories: Insinger de Beaufort, Yatish Trading Company, Leading Securities Firm, Chicago Board of Trade, West LB, Fortune 500 Banking & Investment Firm, Top 5 Trading Firm, Global Futures & Hedge Fund Manager, Crews & Associates, Top 5 Global Securities Firm
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Distributed branch banks pose a unique challenge for IT organizations. They require high availability and security levels, but on-site IT support is costly. Furthermore, teller station space is limited, and enterprise-wide upgrades can take months or even years to complete.
ClearCube simplifies branch management through centralized computing. Securing all hardware in a central data center frees up space at the teller station and eliminates on-site repairs and upgrades. IT administrators can deliver 99.9% availability while maintaining total control over assets.
In addition, ClearCube has partnered with IBM to deliver a unique Virtualized Hosted Client solution that utilizes IBM BladeCenter Dual Xeon server blades and ClearCube management software. Virtualization technology allows each server blade to host multiple user sessions, and award-winning ClearCube software manages the virtualized connections.
Branch Banks Success Stories: eBank, Atlanta Business Bank
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Disaster recovery strategies for end user computing are labor-intensive, cost-prohibitive and limit the number of employees who can actually be restored to service. A strategy based on ClearCube delivers functionality to all employees without incurring high costs or labor hours. IT administrators can schedule automatic data backups to a single disaster recovery site or even to another branch's blade deployment. Users access their blades remotely through an Ethernet-connected user port (I/Port) or over a supported web browser. Leveraging Sentral™ software, IT administrators can support distributed users from anywhere in the world.
Disaster Recovery Success Stories: Fortune 500 Bank, Millennium Partners
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Supporting remote and offshore development sites is costly and time-consuming. Technicians must travel to each site for maintenance, and asset and data security is challenging to monitor. With the ClearCube solution, remote users and offshore developers work directly on blades that are housed at the central site. IT administrators have complete control over the computing assets and can perform all repairs and maintenance at the central site.
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Remote Computing & Offshore Development Success Stories: Top 5 Global Securities Firm
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High-density ClearCube blades provide a powerful, cost-efficient platform for processing large financial models and analytics. ClearCube grids are simple to manage with Sentral™ software, and deployments can be scaled from a few blades to thousands. Businesses can also use their deployments to support end user computing during the day and repurpose the blades for grid computing at night.
ClearCube partners with leading grid software vendor DataSynapse to deliver a total grid computing solution. The joint solution has been utilized by top financial services firms around the world.
Grid Computing Success Stories: Leading Canadian Retail & Investment Firm, Fortune 100 Insurance Firm, Top 10 US Bank
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