Hundreds of organizations from Bangalore to Boston are using blades, virtualization, and multicore technology to get more performance out of their equipment and deliver greater benefits to the business at lower cost. However, hundreds of organizations aren’t there yet. And that’s a shame, because centralized computing and its companion technologies have something to offer nearly everybody.
For example, Fosters uses virtualized desktops to provide disaster recovery for remote and mobile employees. Hollywood effects studios, from Industrial Light and Magic to Pixar, rely on blades and blade-compatible technologies (like multicore processors) to render stellar special effects.
ClearCube itself has helped a wide variety of organizations accomplish some very different things with PC blades. We’ve helped GMP Securities, an investment bank, to support complicated banking industry regulations and security mandates. We’ve also helped National Car Parks, a parking lot operator in the UK, to improve systems availablity and IT management. And we helped NORAD overcome some pretty significant — and unique — spacial constraints when they were looking for a high-availability computing solution.
Furthermore, PC blades have demonstrated the potential for great success in education, government, and hospitals. We would particularly recommend them to the IRS.
Whether your business is in Ho Chi Minh City or a highly fortified bunker, you might think about using PC blades for everything from user equipment to grid computing. As we’ve shown, blades are surprisingly flexible.
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