ClearCenter is headquartered in

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and has its primary product offices in

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, along with marketing, support, research and development facilities around the world, ranging from

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, UK and

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. The company develops Hybrid Products for a type of

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, known as the emerging Hybrid Service Provider. Many of Clear Center’s products are based upon Clear Foundation’s Clear OS, an

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History

ClearCenter was founded by Michael Proper in 2009. Before founding ClearCenter, Michael Proper founded another company in 2000 named DirectPointe which helped to create and grow the

(MSP) sector. It was ranked No. 1 in the top 100

Managed Service Providers Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the ...

globally in 2007 and 2008. ClearCenter currently has customers in over 150 countries.

Products

Most of the products by ClearCenter are

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

with a community version and free-to-use. The ClearCenter WebConfig and ClearSDN have fully developed APIs that are open to developers' use.

ClearOS Software

ClearOS is a

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, based upon

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and

CentOS CentOS (, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream (softw ...

. The ClearOS Community offering is licensed and managed by ClearFoundation. It first launched in 2002 under the name of ClarkConnect, and later changed to its present name in 2009 with the release of ClearOS 5.1 version on October 6, 2009. The current stable version is 7.2, and the beta version is 7.3. ClearOS is offered in two editions - Community and Professional. The Community edition is all free/open source software and free of cost. The Professional edition is a paid version, with a one-time fee monthly to select ClearCenter's partners.

Acquisitions

*Witsbits (2015)

References

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