ClearCube Technology and American Power Conversion to Host Webinar on Healthcare Disaster Recovery Planning

AUSTIN, TX - ClearCube Technology and solutions partner American Power Conversion (APC) will be jointly presenting a one-hour webinar on January 25, 2006 on disaster recovery in the healthcare industry. This webinar will address the typical gaps found in healthcare disaster recovery planning and how centralized computing can fill those gaps.

As healthcare providers increasingly shift the application of IT from administrative applications to improving the quality of patient care, CIO's are now under much more pressure to ensure the reliability, availability, security and integrity of these applications than ever before. This change creates a whole new challenge for CIO's in terms of business continuity and disaster recovery. Regardless of the circumstances, doctors and nurses must have 24/7/365 access to crucial medical information and IT applications.

Carsten Puls (Director of Strategic Development, ClearCube) and John Donovan (Director of Global Healthcare, APC) will explain how leading healthcare providers are turning to centralized computing and effective data center strategies to achieve 99.9% availability in patient care areas. "Centralized computing gives a hospital much more control over its assets, which is critical in forming a successful disaster recovery plan," says Puls.

The one-hour session will also demonstrate how hospitals are changing the landscape of traditional data centers in terms of uptime, high-density power & cooling, space planning requirements and capital expense. "Healthcare providers are beginning to realize that network infrastructure, data centers, MDFs and IDFs are key 'critical-path' elements to achieving the highest levels of IT availability," says Donovan.

ClearCube Technology is leader of PC Blade solutions and was named "Best Blade System" for 2006 by technology analyst 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 connective device called a ClearCube User Port that utilizes fiber, cable or Ethernet connectivity.

APC is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. ClearCube and APC design and deploy innovative data centers that maximize the benefits of PC Blade computing while leveraging the APC InfraStruXure system, an on-demand architecture that integrates power, cooling, management and services in a rack-optimized design.