ClearCube Technology and DataSynapse to Host Webcast on Best Practices for Disaster Recovery in Financial Services

AUSTIN, TX - ClearCube Technology and solutions partner DataSynapse will jointly present a one-hour webcast on March 29, 2006 (12pm CST) on disaster recovery in the financial services industry. This session will address the typical computing and information asset protection gaps found in financial services providers' business continuity strategies and how centralized and grid computing can fill those gaps.

Recent studies show that 60-90% of the companies who do not have a proactive business continuity strategy find themselves out of business within twenty-four months of experiencing a major disaster. Financial institutions are especially vulnerable to lost computing uptime as well as lost or corrupted information. Even an hour of downtime can heavily impact a trading floor's earnings, and what disables a single branch can negatively affect the rest of an enterprise's holdings. Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are critical to ensuring successful and continued business operations.

Carsten Puls, Vice President of Strategic Development, ClearCube and Michael Silfen, Director of Business Development, DataSynapse, will explain why leading financial services providers are turning to Blade-based grid servers for cost-effective and fault-tolerant computing. The one-hour webcast will also demonstrate how the consolidation of disaster recovery servers on virtual machines yields reduced hardware costs and significantly lessens management burdens.

"Deploying a DataSynapse grid server on ClearCube PC Blades streamlines disaster recovery management, increases resource utilization and availability, delivers guaranteed failover, enables run-time provisioning and lowers operational costs," says Puls.

Interested parties can register for the webinar at http://clearcube.netspoke.com/attendee/conferenceDetails.asp?conferenceID=175

ClearCube Technology is the leading provider of PC Blade solutions and was named "Best Blade System" for 2006 by the technology magazine InfoWorld. ClearCube removes the PC from the user area, condenses it into an Intel®-based PC Blade form-factor, and rack-mounts it in a centralized data center. All that remains at the work area are the peripherals (monitor, keyboard, mouse) and a small connection device called a ClearCube User Port that utilizes fiber, cable or Ethernet connectivity.

DataSynapse delivers grid computing solutions for the virtual enterprise, helping organizations drive new levels of business performance through the creation of an agile and responsive IT infrastructure. DataSynapse and ClearCube work together with some of the world's largest financial institutions to enable industry-leading utility computing solutions. The combined solution leverages the density and manageability of ClearCube PC Blades with the utility computing infrastructure from DataSynapse to deliver the highest productivity, availability, and security available.