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The Computer That Survives the ICU (and the Oil Refinery)
A 1989 PC company quietly reinvented itself around the two markets everyone else avoids: hospitals that hose down their hardware and factories where a spark can kill. Here is how a 150-person shop in Burlingame carved out both.
ClearCube Technology
ClearCube Technology is a USA-based manufacturer of secure endpoint devices, centralized computing systems and desktop virtualization (VDI) solutions. Founded in 1997 and based in the Austin, Texas area, ClearCube designs, builds, tests and supports zero clients, thin clients, blade PCs, rackmount workstations and secure KVM switches used across thousands of federal, military, healthcare and enterprise sites. The company is known for TAA-compliant, US-manufactured hardware including TEMPEST-certified and SIPRNet-token-integrated devices built for high-security, critical-operations environments.
Omnissa
Omnissa is an independent digital work platform company spun out of VMware's End-User Computing business after KKR's roughly $4 billion acquisition closed on July 1, 2024. Led by CEO Shankar Iyer, it builds the autonomous workspace: a unified platform spanning Workspace ONE (unified endpoint management), Omnissa Horizon (virtual desktops and apps / DaaS), and Omnissa Intelligence (analytics and digital employee experience), increasingly stitched together with trusted, AI-driven automation. The company serves more than 26,000 customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500, with about $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue and roughly 4,000 employees.
Leostream Corporation
Leostream Corporation is a Boston-based software company that builds a vendor-neutral connection broker and remote desktop access platform. Its software maps end users to the right computing resource - a desktop, workstation, or GPU instance - whether that resource lives in a data center, on a physical machine, or across AWS, Azure, and OpenStack clouds. Founded in 2002 and led since 2016 by CEO Karen Gondoly, Leostream serves financial services, government and defense, media and entertainment, and oil and gas customers who need secure, single-pane management of hybrid work environments. Its platform won an Engineering Emmy in 2022.
Nerdio
Nerdio builds software that automates and simplifies the deployment, management, and cost optimization of Microsoft cloud technologies - Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft 365, and Intune. Born as an internal tool at a Chicago managed service provider, Nerdio spun out in 2020 and now serves over 23,000 customers worldwide through two flagship products: Nerdio Manager for Enterprise and Nerdio Manager for MSP. In March 2025 it raised $500 million from General Atlantic at a $1 billion+ valuation.
ControlUp
ControlUp is a digital employee experience (DEX) and autonomous endpoint management platform that helps IT teams see, score, and fix problems on every desktop, virtual session, and SaaS app before users start filing tickets. Born in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers and was named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEX Tools.
Workspot, Inc
Workspot is a cloud-native platform that delivers Windows and Linux desktops, apps, and GPU workstations as a service across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Built for enterprises moving away from legacy VDI, it lets IT teams provision a global cloud PC fleet in days rather than months.