ClearCube Technology announced a partnership with DataSynapse to deliver a Grid-enabled PC Blade platform. This hardware and software combination is the first of its kind for the financial services and insurance industry.

Financial services and insurance firms have been the leading adopters of computing grids to run complex portfolio analysis, capital reserve, risk assessment and actuarial models. By coupling DataSynapse's GridServer software with ClearCube's PC Blade platform, enterprises now have a Grid computing solution that delivers increased performance, efficiency and scalability.

DataSynapse is a leading provider of virtual application infrastructure software in the financial services sector. The DataSynapse GridServer software virtualizes and distributes application services and executes them in a guaranteed, scalable manner. By creating a virtualized environment that matches demand (user/application service requests) and supply (available system and data resources), GridServer provides an "on demand" environment that dramatically improves application performance, resiliency and utilization of resources.

ClearCube is a leading provider of PC blade computing solutions in the financial services sector. Investment banks, hedge funds, retail banks and insurance companies already use ClearCube PC Blades and management software to deliver secured, high-availability computing to end-users while cutting support costs by more than 40 percent.

ClearCube's blades are an ideal Grid computing platform for several reasons. First, PC Blades provide the best price/performance/density metrics because they leverage the latest Intel Pentium 4 and Xeon blades in a dense form factor. Second, ClearCube PC Blades provide for greater flexibility because they can be dual-used (end-user computing by day/Grid computing by night). Third, ClearCube PC Blades enable the enterprise to easily scale up (or down) in smaller increments so that large, up-front infrastructure investments are not required. Finally, since the entire infrastructure is in a secured, controlled environment, management of the grid is simplified and network latency is reduced.

With the combination of the DataSynapse software and ClearCube's PC Blades, financial services firms have an ideal platform for performing real-time analyses that drive improved business decisions. This is of vital importance for users who conduct risk analysis, portfolio management and insurance actuarial models.

"By partnering with DataSynapse, we are able to deliver a Grid computing environment that is unmatched in the industry in terms of flexibility, scalability and price," said Carl Boisvert, president and CEO of ClearCube Technology. "ClearCube PC Blades deliver one centralized secure computing platform that can be used for both end-user workstations and a Grid computing environment."