NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
08/17/04
Today's focus:  ClearCube rakes in the money

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Today's focus:  ClearCube rakes in the money

By Deni Connor

ClearCube, a maker of bladed PCs, this week is expected to 
announce that it has received an additional $25 million in 
investments. The company says it plans to use the funds to 
expand its international marketing efforts. 

The investment will bring ClearCube's total funding to $85 
million. 

"We have three primary verticals - hospitals, financial and 
government/military," says Carl Boisvert, newly appointed CEO of 
ClearCube. "This round will allow us to penetrate more verticals 
and markets in parts of the world where we have customers but no 
office. We may also use the funding to expand into 
manufacturing, transportation and hospitality." 

ClearCube has other funding from Paladin Homeland Security Fund, 
Austin Ventures, Sternhill Partners, Wall Street Ventures, 
Techno Venture Management, SAIC, Austin Ventures, Sternhill 
Partners and GIC. 

ClearCube competes in the desktop blade market with HP, which 
recently introduced bladed desktop computers.

"We are very happy that HP is jumping [into the market where we 
have] our fourth-generation product," says Boisvert. "It is a 
pleasure to see HP validate our space and also our value 
proposition," he says. 

Boisvert claims that customers using ClearCube's technology have 
a clear manageability and performance advantage over HP's 
desktop blades. HP's has a 1-GHz Transmeta based processor blade 
that runs over Ethernet only.

ClearCube's bladed PC system places a keyboard, mouse and a 
device called a user port on the user's desktop. The CPU for the 
system, which is located in the data center, connects to the 
user port via Ethernet or a fiber-optic connection.

ClearCube has several User Port options including the C/Port, 
Fiber C/Port, Multi-Video eXpander and I/Port. The C/Port 
connects the keyboard, video and mouse to the CPU blade over 
Category 5 cable up to 200 meters long. The I/Port lets users 
connect to their blades over a standard Ethernet connection. 
With the blades located in a rack in the data center, management 
is eased. Network administrators simply need to connect the user 
to a new blade if a failure occurs.

The company numbers Morgan Stanley, Hill Air Force Base and 
heating and ventilation equipment vendor Trane, among its 
customers.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

ClearCube expands reach of PC blades
Network World, 10/20/03
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1020clearcube.html

ClearCube retrofits management software
Network World Servers Newsletter, 06/03/04
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/servers/2004/0531server2.html

HP focuses on enhanced virtualization
Network World, 08/16/04
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/081604hpworld.html
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To contact: Deni Connor

Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering 
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can 
reach her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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