According to IDC, more than three-quarters of companies with five hundred or more employees use virtual servers, and 45 percent of all new servers purchased in 2006 were virtualized. While virtual machines (VMs) can drast......According to IDC, more than three-quarters of companies with five hundred or more employees use virtual servers, and 45 percent of all new servers purchased in 2006 were virtualized. While virtual machines (VMs) can drastically reduce computing costs by utilizing fewer servers to support existing hardware, classic server consolidation projects do not address the issues faced by organizations wanting to centralize their end-user desktops. The ClearCube virtualization solution is the industry’’s first true virtualization offering that ensures sufficient end-user computing power and full information security by centrally managing PC blades and virtual machines from a single location such as a data center. This eliminates end-user downtime, security concerns related to data "walking out" the front door and high IT management costs. The ClearCube virtualization solution combines VMware-enabled ClearCube Virtualization blades with the company’’s award-winning Sentral™ management software, enabling organizations to deploy a comprehensive virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that more efficiently utilizes IT assets. Virtualizing a pool of ClearCube enables organizations to provide a true virtualization solution by fully utilizing both the physical and virtual resources in the data center. Each blade then becomes a VDI resource allowing multiple end users to have the full PC experience while sharing resources. ClearCube Sentral™ is the key component of any true desktop virtualization solution. It provides a single management platform for monitoring, controlling and connecting multiple end-user desktop clients to centralized PC resources in the data center, such as PC blades and virtual machines running on blades. By automatically allocating computing resources as needed between PC blades and virtualized blades, Sentral enables organizations to more effectively manage their desktop IT infrastructure and guarantee desktop computing power at all employee user levels. The ClearCube virtualization solution uses the company’’s multi-capable blade platform and enterprise class management software to support organizations with workforces that have widely varying computing needs. ClearCube supports the following user types in the financial services, healthcare, government and commercial industries. Although many users have the need for a dedicated CPU to accomplish their specific job, in most cases, employees are only using a small portion—five to thirty percent—of the available CPU with their PCs. These under utilized resources represent the majority of user desktops. These task and knowledge workers and the functions they perform are natural targets for virtualization. Task workers, such as help desk and call center professionals that operate in the same low-power applications, including data entry and spreadsheet applications. Knowledge workers, such as medical professionals, that require quick bursts of powerful computing resources to conduct their jobs. Applications such as word processing, presentation drafting and standard Internet browsing are ideal for knowledge workers. Power users, such as traders in the financial services industry and select government organizations, need full-time access to high-availability and high-power computing resources. These users are often better suited to traditional one-to-one dedicated ClearCube PC blade solutions, as opposed to VDI deployments. Organizations need to ensure that they are effectively utilizing all of their computing assets in a VDI deployment. Combining virtualization technology with PC blades empowers organizations with the unique ability to manage both physical and virtual assets in one management software tool to ensure end users always have the computing power required to conduct their jobs. ClearCube Virtualization Resources ClearCube Virtual Desktop Solutions Introducing ClearCube for VDI: the industry’’s first complete end-toend virtual desktop solution that delivers the end-user desktop computing experience with the datacenter manageability, security and availability required to centrally manage virtual desktop deployments. ClearCube Sentral Datasheet Sentral is the industry’’s only complete, vendor-agnostic management software for Centralized Computing, including virtual desktop deployments. Sentral allows any kind of client device to connect with any back-end computing resource to enable a high quality ennd-to-end computing experience. ClearCube Virtualization Solutions – Vmware ESX This solution paper discusses what virtualization is and how a solution based on the ClearCube components combined with the large enterprise class of virtualization software of ESX can deliver unprecedented manageability while maintaining deployment flexibility and end-user satisfaction. ClearCube Virtualization Solutions – Vmware Server This solution paper discusses what virtualization is and how a solution based on the ClearCube components combined with the robust virtualization capabilities of Vmware Server can deliver the enterprise class manageability while continuing to maintain deployment flexibility and end-user satisfaction.