ClearCube is a

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s manufacturer based in

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, owned by parent company ClearCube Holdings. The company became known for its

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products;China Marten (November 14, 2005
IBM, ClearCube to extend relationship

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it has since expanded its offerings to include

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and VDI. It was founded in 1997 by Andrew Heller (former IBM Fellow) and Barry Thornton as Vicinity Systems.Deni Connor, (July 18, 2005
Lenovo deal gives ClearCube a boost. PC blade maker ClearCube gets major reseller deal

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Larry Greenemeier, (January 9, 2003
ClearCube Lands Another $20 Million In Funding. New money will support the company's blade desktop-computing technology.

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In 2005, ClearCube derived about a third of its revenue from virtual infrastructure products sold into the financial services sector, with the majority of the rest of the revenue coming from customers in the health-care and government sectors. Since 2005, ClearCube has continued to focus on virtualization-capable hardware and management software, which has led to strong revenue growth. In 2011, the company announced 50% year-over-year revenue growth due to the strong performance of its virtual desktop products. In 2011, ClearCube acquired Dallas-based Network Elites. The acquisition brought roughly 25 additional employees to the company and expanded ClearCube's Cloud services capabilities.

Partnerships

Until 2005, IBM was a reseller of the entire product line of ClearCube. Afterwards, IBM bundled some of its own hardware with ClearCube's software, and also diversified its software offering to include

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and

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products. When IBM sold its PC division to

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, the latter also began reselling ClearCube blades.Tom Krazit, (Jul 11, 2005
Lenovo to Resell ClearCube Blade PCs

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Other major PC manufactures, like HP, also began to compete in the blade PC niche around this time. Other resellers of ClearCube products included

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and SAIC. In 2008, ClearCube spun off its software division as

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, and while VDIworks has developed additional OEM relationships, the two companies remain closely associated in OEM partnership, and share the same investors and owners. In January 2008, ClearCube also introduced products implementing

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protocol, including two dual

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, the I9420 I/Port and C7420 C/Port, which connect to the blades using copper-based and fiber-optic

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, respectively.Agam Shah, (January 24, 2008
ClearCube announces thin clients

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