The Chicago Board of Trade needed a solution that could provide real-time information to their trading floor, while keeping the physical assets secure. Using the ClearCube solution and switching software, they were able to do both.

Crews & Associates, Inc. is a wholly owned, non-bank affiliate of First Security Bancorp that specializes in fixed income products. The firm deployed the ClearCube solution to better support its suite of industry-critical Bloomberg software.

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The largest Internet bank in Japan, eBank System Corporation was looking to harden asset and data security to prevent sensitive data leaks. By replacing box PCs located in high security areas with ClearCube PC Blades and User Ports, they successfully obtained a secure, centralized work environment.

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A Fortune 100 insurance and financial services firm specializing in strategic investments, asset management, and casualty, life and domestic property insurance wanted to install a grid computing solution that would allow it to process large amounts of statistical data for actuarial applications. After evaluating its options, the firm chose to deploy a ClearCube grid computing solution for financial services. ClearCube worked with ClearCube Solution Network partner DataSynapse, a leading provider of virtual application infrastructure software, to deploy a dedicated, blade-based cluster in its data center. As a result, the insurer was able to significantly increase its processing power per square foot and floating point operations per second (FLOPS) while simplifying its overall deployment management.

The private client division of an international banking firm deployed the ClearCube solution for financial services in multiple facilities across New York state. The bank installed ClearCube PC Blades in five different locations to support both daily training operations and to act as a central command and control center as part of its business continuity plan. In the event of a disaster, the five widely dispersed locations can quickly and easily be repurposed as executive management centers in order to continue the bank's business. As the investment strategy provider for worldwide high-net-worth investors, the bank puts significant value on the availability of its computing and information assets. By choosing to deploy the ClearCube solution, the private client investment division can now ensure the perpetuation of superior service to those investors.

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To alleviate space and IT management challenges occurring throughout its three trading floors, a major international banking and investment firm decided to replace its distributed box PC platform with the ClearCube solution financial services. By adopting a centralized PC Blade solution, the bank was able to eliminate PC-related noise and heat on the trading floors as well as provide its traders with more work space. The solution's powerful, web-based management software has also simplified asset management and maintenance for the bank. Utilizing the ClearCube software, IT administrators can now perform repairs and maintenance without ever stepping onto the trading floor. The centralized solution is especially beneficial for moving users on the trading floor. Instead of hauling heavy equipment on the trading floor, IT personnel can now simply "hot swap" the user's PC Blade directly in the data center. After deploying the ClearCube solution, the bank has come to recognize significant space and desktop support savings.

A global futures and hedge fund management firm decided to replace its entire box PC deployment with a centralized, Intel®-based ClearCube solution for both space and management benefits. As with many other financial institutions, the firm's floor space is at a premium. It can't afford to crowd that space with bulky PCs or disrupt end users with on-site IT maintenance. By removing the bulky PC from the user work area entirely, the ClearCube solution has given back critical space to the firm. The centralized solution has also simplified the firm's asset management, enabling an entire business computing environment to be managed and administered by a small, tightly managed IT Department.

In an effort to deploy new state-of-the-art facilities supporting a higher degree of collaboration and reliability for its 800 traders, this securities firm partnered with ClearCube. The firm needed a work environment in the heart of the Tokyo, Japan business district that would support enhanced collaboration among its personnel. ClearCube PC Blade solutions for Financial Services were deployed resulting in hardened security and 99.9% availability for the firms' computing and information assets.

A leading trading firm needed to rapidly relocate 400 securities traders from one facility in Tokyo to another building in the same city. The firm's goal was to reduce the cost of facility rental by reducing the amount of work-space its traders required in what is the most expensive commercial real estate market in the world. ClearCube and its implementation partner IBM Global Services teamed with the customer to relocate the firm's personnel into a facility half the size, at half the cost, without any reduction in service.

Insinger de Beaufort is an Anglo-Dutch private banking group with offices spanning across Amsterdam and London. After relocating its London office to a new facility, the enterprise used the opportunity to replace its outdated box PCs. Insinger implemented the ClearCube solution across its trading floor and immediately recognized benefits in asset security, availability and manageability.

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A leading Canadian retail and investment bank wanted to adopt a high performance computing (HPC) solution in order to run its mission-critical trading applications more efficiently. Although it considered server blade platforms from several vendors, the bank ultimately found these solutions to be expensive and unreliable. After researching its options, the bank discovered that the ClearCube HPC solution for financial services would deliver both lower support costs and higher performance rates than traditional HPC platforms. Leveraging application infrastructure software from DataSynapse (a ClearCube Solution Network partner) that virtualizes access to computing and data resources, the bank deployed a PC Blade-base platform for around-the-clock high performance computing. With the ClearCube solution, the bank has realized tremendous time savings and transaction scalability, both resulting in measurable competitive advantage.

Millennium Partners, a New York-based hedge fund with $5 billion under management, utilizes ClearCube PC Blades in three Eastern U.S. facilities in a dual-use configuration that supports both trading operations and disaster recovery needs. Employing the ClearCube solution for financial services, the firm was able to connect monitors, keyboards, mice and other peripherals used by operations personnel to a centralized PC Blade configuration. In addition to realizing increased security and increased space savings at the desktop, the firm can ensure that its users gain rapid access to important computing and information assets in the event of a disaster.

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While researching its options, a leading global financial services firm and market leader in securities, asset management and credit services chose the ClearCube concept of secure, always on, centralized computing to outfit their new facility. "The ClearCube solution provides the flexibility, manageability and high availability that we desire at the desktop. This solution will improve our service levels and reduce our desktop operating costs."

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An independent equity investment manager based in Akron, Ohio, Oak Associates turned to ClearCube to minimize costly downtime and operating expenses..

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Sagent Advisors, a top-tier financial advisory firm in New York City, had to seamlessly move their entire computing system over a single weekend. Luckily, ClearCube PC Blades allowed a small team to move every PC Blade and have them set up and running at the new office in minutes.

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As one of the ten largest banks based in the U.S., this organization was obligated to meet specific capital reserve requirements on a daily basis. To support its commitment, the bank decided to install a high performance computing (HPC) solution that would provide large amounts of processing power on demand. The bank knew that more frequent and precise reserve calculations would lessen the amount of capital it had to put away at the end of each day. After considering its HPC solution options, the bank chose to deploy a centralized ClearCube PC Blade cluster at its main facility. The ClearCube solution for financial services immediately enabled the customer to execute rapid calculations through the optimization of information and computing resources. The result: a double-digit profit increase in the millions of dollars.

West LB originally looked to ClearCube to solve an air-conditioning problem at their trading floor in Tokyo. Once deployed, however, they found that PC Blade architecture solved even more than they had anticipated.

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Yatish Trading is a leading securities firm trading on the Bombay and Indian National Stock Exchanges, with operations in Mumbai, Dubai, Moscow, London and Hong Kong. Their comprehensive ClearCube solution strengthened hardware and data security, improved uptime, increased manageability and reduced operating costs by 40%.

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