ClearCube Keeps the Heat on HP in Blades
ClearCube Technology plans to launch two PC blade servers, in a bid to compete with Hewlett-Packard Co. for customers in finance, insurance, hospitals and the military. Both blades will use Intel Corp. chips and will have enough power to run Microsoft Corp.'s pending Vista operating system, which has large processing requirements to support the translucent windows in its graphical interface. http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/edf484e1-9833-4a74-9b55-06d3db17a1ba.html
ClearCube users increasingly devote their new servers to shared workload models like virtualization, which allows as many as 10 different users to share a single blade, and like grid computing, which divides large computational loads into smaller chunks for many different computers to handle in parallel.
"The PC was not designed to be a business computer; it was designed to be a personal computer. We just all ended up doing it this way," said. Raj Shah, chief marketing officer of ClearCube, in Austin, Texas. "Twenty years from now, if someone tried to sell you something called a 'box PC' that sat on your desk and had less uptime and less security, would you buy it? Of course not."
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