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Today’s PCs have more power than most users needThe NComputing solution is based on a simple fact: today’s computers are so powerful that only a small fraction of their capacity is required for the vast major-ity of applications. NComputing taps this unused capacity by enabling up to 30 simultaneous users to run their own applications (all from the same computer), for as little as US$70 per additional user. With NComputing, customers get the most out of their investment in PCs and servers.

NComputing slashes computing costs by sharing the extra powerNComputing reduces purchase costs by at least 50% and maintenance costs by 70% so that organizations can quickly and affordably provide computing access to their users. It is also the greenest computing solution on earth—NComputing access devices use as little as 1 watt of electricity (compared to 110 watts for a regular PC). They also drastically reduce e-waste (access devices only weigh 150 grams, compared to 9.6 kilograms for a PC).

Software and hardware combine for a simple and reliable solutionNComputing’s vSpaceTM virtualization software shares the excess process-ing power of a computer (PC or server) and transmits the signals between the shared computer and each user. Each user’s monitor, keyboard and peripherals connect to a small NComputing access device that then connects to the shared computer. The access device is inexpensive and highly reliable because it has no CPU, memory, or moving parts. The solution is easy to deploy and maintain.

NComputing makes sense everywhereNComputing’s virtual desktops have been installed everywhere from home of-fi ces to large enterprises. They save money in schools and small businesses, slash maintenance calls in enterprises, provide security in hospitals, and with-stand extreme conditions in factories.

NComputing dominates the desktop virtualization marketNComputing stands alone in the desktop virtualization market. Only NComputing has an end-to-end solution that includes the virtualization software, next-generation communications protocol, and low-cost access devices. For this reason, only NComputing can deliver virtual desktops for less than US$100 per seat. And only NComputing has broad market success, with over 1,200,000 seats sold in over 100 countries.

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AT A GLANCEMARCH 2009

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Why customers love NComputing

CASE STUDYBusiness

CHALLENGE

Bulky desktop computers were

overpowered for basic office

applications and contributed to

the desktop clutter at Canon

Marketing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.’s

headquarters.

SOLUTION

Deployed NComputing’s L-series

access devices with NComputing’s

virtualization software to achieve

cost efficiency and improve the use

of desktop space.

RESULTS

Canon successfully cut costs and

made use of the savings to purchase

LCD monitors to replace old CRT

monitors. The small NComputing

virtual desktops took up little space

and helped to free up space on

users’ desks.

PARTNER

This project was driven and

supported by Siam Network & Com-

puter (SNC), NComputing distribu-

tor for Thailand.

Canon pictures a clutter-free office in ThailandCanon Marketing (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. Japan, sells and markets its digital imaging and office automation equipment to busi-nesses and consumers in Thailand. Best known for their popular cameras and printers, Canon’s team of over 400 employees in the company’s Bangkok headquarters include a direct sales team and support a nationwide network of 160 dealer locations and 11 service stations.

High costs and cluttered workspacesWhen preparing their IT purchasing budget for the coming year, Canon took a closer look at the way it was providing computer access to its employees and realized two things. For starters, a large number of their users utilized just a small fraction of their computers’ capacity. These users only needed to use basic office applications and the internet. Replacing these users’ aging desktop computers would not only consume most of the year’s IT budget, but even low-end new computers would be significantly overpowered for their needs. Canon also realized that the existing computers took up most of the limited desk space available. Simply replacing them with new machines would do nothing to alleviate their employees’ crowded workspaces. It was obvious that the current PC replacement model no longer made sense and the team went in search of a solution.

Canon is a premier designer and manufacturer of digital cameras.

CASE STUDYManufacturing

Auto parts maker wins productivity race with NComputingFactory automation plays a critical role in driving productivity and quality. That is certainly the case for BLD Products, a manufacturer of quality emission and engine control products for automobiles and trucks. The company supplies parts to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket. Based in Holland, Michigan, BLD manufacturing operations include light assembly, machining, welding, injection molding, and stamping. The intensely competitive global parts business means that the factory automation systems need to deliver high uptime so that production goals are always met. And given the tight industry margins, computing costs have to be kept under tight control.

Old PCs grind down operationsBLD needed to upgrade their computing architecture because their PCs and software were obsolete—nearly six years old and running outdated operating systems. But replacing all of the PCs was too expensive. “We looked at a thin-client solution, but found the high upfront cost for servers, software, and network equipment was also cost-prohibitive,” said J.R. Muller, network administrator at BLD.

BLD turned to systems integrator and NComputing partner GHA Technologies for an affordable alternative. “We took a close look at BLD’s setup and their objectives. We toured the plants to make sure we could deliver the right solution for their particular needs,” said Peter McKeon, technical sales manager at GHA Technologies.

CHALLENGE

Cost-effectively upgrade BLD’s

computing infrastructure while

ensuring high uptime in a harsh

manufacturing environment

SOLUTION

Deploy the NComputing L230

virtual desktop solution in a ratio of

four L230 devices per shared PC

RESULTS

Huge savings in upfront costs;

substantial increase in uptime and

reliability; significant reduction in

electrical use and IT support

PARTNER

GHA Technologies,

(www.gha-associates.com) an

NComputing solution partner with

offices throughout the U.S.

BLD deployed NComputing throughout its factory floor.

CASE STUDYBusiness/emerging economies

Mexican training center for the disabled expands e-learning accessHundreds of disadvantaged and disabled citizens who live near Mexico City rely on Centro de Capacitación para el Trabajo Industrial (CECATI) for occupa-tional training. The center teaches marketable skills such as industrial mainte-nance, secretarial computing, and computer maintenance.

Working under Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education, the school is supported in part the Partnership for Opportunities for Employment through Technology in the Americas (POETA) to provide on-site training in the use of information technology to persons with disabilities.

Growing demand stretches limited budgetsE-learning provides exciting new opportunities for learning valuable skills. But even with POETA’s support, the budgets at CECATI are tight. The school had previously purchased a few low-cost PCs, but with a student population that increasingly depends on computers, more stations were needed. But the center could not afford them.

The school considered traditional thin clients, but found that they were no great bargain. Worse yet, the thin clients required a higher level of trained support personnel, and CECATI had no IT professionals on its staff. School administrators saw that reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO) was the key to meeting their computing needs.

CHALLENGE

Meet growing demand for

computer access to support

student training programs while

lowering costs.

SOLUTION

Deploy the NComputing X-series in

order to enable more users to share

existing computing resources.

RESULTS

Quadrupled computing access and

significantly reduced support costs.

PARTNER

LT Solutions S.A. de C.V., an

NComputing solutions partner with

offices in Mexico City and

distributors throughout Mexico.

CECATI quadrupled student access to computers by using NComputing

CASE STUDYEducation

Ramona Unified achieves e-learning goalsThe challenges seemed insurmountable. The Ramona Unified School District (California) computer labs’ aging PCs were unable to run innovative and costly e-learning software it had recently purchased, and they had too few of the outdated machines to allow the students time for effective learning.

Worse still, the heat generated by the old PCs and CRT monitors made the computer labs unbearably hot and noisy, and the lab’s crowded desktops had little room for papers, notes, and books. With a limited budget and IT staff, finding a cost-effective solution was daunting.

A wasted investment With 33 classrooms, a large library-media center, and a computer lab, Barnett Elementary School exemplified the Ramona district’s challenges. The com-puters in the school’s lab couldn’t run a new e-learning application that cost them more than $20,000, and there weren’t enough computers to meet the needs of the students. “We realized it would take us three years to save the money we needed just to buy the computers for the lab,” said Barnett princi-pal Shelagh Appleman. “And that meant our investment in the new software would be wasted.”

As with most schools, Ramona’s budget for purchasing new PCs was extremely limited, as was the size of the district’s IT staff, which would have to deploy any new machines and the applications they would run. “We had used re-furbished machines in the past, but we found that with their limited lifespan they weren’t cost-effective,” said Keith Wright, director of information and education services for the Ramona USD. “We also looked at a thin-client solu-tion but found the upfront costs for servers, hardware and network band-width was prohibitive.”

CHALLENGE

New software wouldn’t run on old

PCs; not enough money to buy new

ones.

SOLUTION

Install NComputing virtual desktop

solutions in the district’s labs and

classrooms to increase available

desktops while limiting impact to

budget and the IT support team.

RESULTS

Costs for deploying the new

computers are reduced by more

than half. Powerful new e-learning

applications run problem-free,

preserving the district’s significant

software investment. Noise, heat,

and space problems in the lab are

eliminated.

NComputing’s solution eliminated heat and noise in Barnett Elementary School’s computer lab, vastly improving the learning environment.

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Some of the reasons they cite are:

The purchase cost is very low. As low as $70 per user.•

It works with standard software. There is no need to buy specialized applications or • retrain technical staff or users. The solution works on Windows and Linux operating systems.

This is the biggest leap forward in green computing. NComputing access devices • draw as little as one watt (maximum 5) of power for each user versus 110 watts for a typical PC—a 90% reduction.

NComputing technology reduces e-waste. The access devices are tiny and do not • need to be replaced every upgrade cycle.

It’s easy and fast to deploy and support. An NComputing solution can be • implemented in minutes.

Ongoing operation and maintenance costs are extremely low. Since the access • devices do not have CPUs, memory or moving parts, their reliability is very high. Also, with fewer computers to support, maintenance costs decline dramatically.

Upgrade cycles are easy and economical. With NComputing, a single PC upgrade • increases performance for every virtual desktop connected to it.

Interesting FactsThere are approximately 850 million PC users around the world, but experts • estimate that another one billion people would take advantage of computing if it were more affordable.

Less than 24 months after commercializing its revolutionary technology, over 1.2 • million NComputing seats have been sold worldwide.

Over 40,000 organizations in 100 countries use NComputing every day.•

NComputing has already captured approximately 7% of the US K-12 educational • computing market.

The Republic of Macedonia installed 160,000 NComputing seats in every K-12 • school in the country. This is the fi rst nationwide deployment of computing for every student.

A typical PC consumes 110 watts of electricity. NComputing devices consume from • 1 to 5 watts. If the NComputing installed base of 1,200,000 seats were regular PCs, they would consume 211 million watts of power (versus less than 38 million watts for NComputing devices).

In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, NComputing has been installed in 5,000 • schools and provides computer literacy training to over 1.8 million students every day.

NComputing was awarded the prestigious Wall Street Journal Technology • Innovation Award for the most innovative new solution in computing systems. NComputing has also received awards from Gartner, Deloitte, CeBit, Frost & Sullivan, the Silicon Valley Tech Museum, CES, and many others.

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Two product lines to choose fromNComputing’s breakthrough desktop virtualization technology is available in two product families: the NComputing X-series and the NComputing L-series. Both product lines enable standard PCs and servers to share their resources for no-compro-mise computing at unprecedented low prices.

The NComputing X-series The X-series supports up to eleven simultaneous users on a single shared PC. An X-series kit includes the vSpace virtualization soft-ware, a PCI card, and three or fi ve access devices. Two X-series kits can be installed into one PC, for eleven total users. The X-series provides a rich PC experience that includes full-screen, full-motion video.

X-series architecture

The NComputing L-seriesThe L-series connects to the shared computer via standard Ethernet networks. Up to 30 users can connect to a standard PC or server. Up to 200 users can connect to a mid-range server.

L-series architecture

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Frequently Asked Questions Where does NComputing make the most sense? Are there applications that don’t make sense?

NComputing excels at all mainstream tasks such as offi ce applications, email, and Internet browsing. It works quite well with the majority of PC software in use today. It is not intended for processor-intensive applications such as video editing, 3-D games, and scientifi c computing—although we do hear from users who are very happy with some high-end applications such as CAD. Most of our customers are businesses, schools, libraries, internet cafés, manufacturing plants, and various public-access com-puting sites. Other ideal environments include nonprofi t organizations, police stations, eldercare, and government offi ces. Over 40,000 organizations have deployed NComputing in over 100 countries.

What is the price?

Pricing varies by region and reseller, but the X-series costs about US$70 per seat. The L-series starts at $149 each. These prices include the NComputing virtualization software (vSpace), but do not include keyboard, monitor, mouse, operating system and application software, taxes and duties.

How does NComputing compare to traditional thin clients?

The NComputing user experience rivals that of a PC, whereas thin clients have limited graphics capabilities. Traditional thin clients are still computers, with processors and a local OS, which add cost and complexity. With NComputing, all of the comput-ing is done on the shared PC, so the access device is very small, very reliable and very inexpensive. When the traditional thin-client/fat-server technology was developed, PCs weren’t powerful enough to do what they can today. Also, NComputing vSpace software is very effi cient in its use of host CPU resources, and the NComputing highly effi cient communications protocol (UXP) is optimized for graphical performance.

How do you compare to what companies like VMWare and Citrix do?

NComputing hardware and software can inter-operate with—and improve the performance and economics of—a Citrix or VMware environment. The best architecture depends on your requirements.

What are the power savings?

The X-series devices consume about 1 watt per added user. The L-series devices consume about 5 watts per added user. Ac-cording to the US Energy Star web site, a typical PC consumes about 110 watts. The impact goes beyond the electrical cost savings: a room full of access devices does not have to be air conditioned, but a room full of PCs does; and in many developing regions electricity is scarce and may have to be generated locally. NComputing’s solutions are an excellent way to lower the carbon footprint while delivering a rich desktop computing experience.

Are there any issues with application compatibility?

Most common applications support multiple user sessions right out of the box. There are some applications that do not work well in a multi-user environment. We provide no-risk evaluation untis so that customers can test their applications.

How secure is the NComputing system?

Since there is no data in the access device, it is very secure. The data can be securely managed on the shared PC or server so it is easy to maintain, protect, and back up. That reduces the burden on the users and IT staff, and is the same strategy that IT has found works best when they consolidate assets within data centers.

Does it work over wireless networks?

We recommend a 10/100 wired LAN connection from the L-series devices to the shared PC. Customers have deployed in wire-less environments using off-the-shelf wireless bridges.

How many seats have been deployed?

We have sold over 1,200,000 seats in more than 100 countries.

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The CompanyWinner of the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Award, NComputing, Inc. was founded with the goal of making desk-top computing affordable for everyone. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, the company’s patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste.

Management TeamNComputing is run by a highly experienced and innovative management team with deep roots in the computer hardware and software industry. NComputing management has led teams at companies like eMachines, GE, AMD, Sun, McKinsey, Spansion and Wyse.

Stephen A. Dukker, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Dukker has spent his entire career driving down the cost of computing. He brings more than 30 years of experience in computer manufacturing and retailing to NComputing. Prior to NComputing, he was the founder and CEO of eMachines, a company dedicated to mak-ing computers affordable. In its fi rst year, eMachines achieved $817 million in revenues and quickly became the third largest manufacturer of personal computers in North America.

Mr. Dukker previously held senior management roles at several technology manufacturing and retail companies, including senior vice president of merchandising and direct operations for Computer City, president of OPTi, Inc., and president of PC manufacturing and distribu-tion for CompUSA. He was also the founder and president of PC Brand, one of the fi rst mail order PC manufacturers in the industry, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Alorica and Digital Persona.

Young Song, Co-founder, President and Chief Operating Offi cer

Mr. Song brings more than 17 years of management experience in running NComputing’s day-to-day operations, including supply chain and manufacturing. Prior to NComputing, he was the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to consumers.

Mr. Song also co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc. Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Raj Shah, Chief Marketing Offi cer

Raj Shah is the Chief Marketing Offi cer of NComputing and leads the marketing and business development efforts. Raj brings 20+ years of business management experience spanning start-ups, growth stage companies and F500 corporations. Prior to NComputing, Raj was the CMO of ClearCube Technology, the pioneer in PC blade computing systems. Raj was the co-founder of SiteStuff, a leading e-procurement service, and served as VP of marketing of pcOrder.

Raj was also a senior manager at McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting fi rm. Raj began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and GBC. Raj has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern) and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

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Katherine Butler, Chief Administrative Offi cer

Ms. Butler brings more than 20 years of experience to lead the fi nance, legal and human resources team at NComputing. Prior to NComputing, she served as general counsel and secretary for Software AG North America where she led the fi nance, legal, human resources and corporate services teams.

Ms. Butler also served as an attorney with General Electric in various locations including Paris, Milan, London, and Maryland. Early in her career, she was lead counsel for Software International Corporation in Andover, Massachusetts. She holds a Master of Laws (L.L.M.) from Boston University, a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College.

Bill Platt, SVP of Engineering & Support

Mr. Platt brings more than 20 years of development and customer support experience to NComputing. He leads NComputing’s global engineering hardware and software develop-ment organization as well as the worldwide customer support team. Before joining NCom-puting, Mr. Platt was executive vice president of products at Wyse Technology, a leader in thin client computing.

Prior to joining Wyse, Mr. Platt was vice president of the operating platforms group at Sun Microsystems, where he ran large organizations including Americas Customer Care, Asia Pacifi c Customer Services, and was a vice president of software responsible for the Java Enterprise System and Solaris products. He was instrumental in helping the company build its fi eld service and support organization as Sun experienced enormous growth during his 15 year tenure. Mr. Platt earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School.

Gabriele Sartori, SVP of Hardware Platform Development

Mr. Sartori brings more than 25 years of technology and hardware development experience to NComputing. He leads the hardware platform development efforts for NComputing. Prior to NComputing, Mr. Sartori held executive positions at Spansion, Luxtera, and Advanced Micro Devices. At AMD, he was the driving force behind HyperTransport, the revolutionary bus used by the Opteron CPUs.

Before coming to the U.S., Mr. Sartori ran the R&D for Desktop PC and Workstations at Olivetti, Italy. He has several computer architecture patents and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical Institute of Biella, Italy.

Contacts

NComputing, Inc.1 Lagoon Drive, Suite 110Redwood City, CA 94065(650) 594-5800

www.ncomputing.com

David RandSr. Director of Corporate Marketingdrand@ncomputing.com