The Itanium Solutions Blog

Intel vice president Satoshi Tadashi Munakata recently spoke on ‘IT Innovation for Growth’ at the IT Japan 2010 conference. He said “The server is the lifeblood of semiconductor design, processing speed will be increased to improve the productivity of semiconductor development.” When covering Itanium, he referred to the roadmap of the mission-critical 9300 series: “The 7th generation and the next version’s codename is ‘Poulson’. After that we are ready for ‘Kittson’.” In closing, he mentioned how it is necessary to ‘focus on core competence’ and ‘improve business productivity’ for companies’ growth in Japan’s current economic climate.

HP Technology Services from the UK, as part of its Technical On-line Seminar Programme, will be presenting an “Overview of HP Itanium/Integrity Servers” this Friday, July 23rd, from 11:00 – 3:00 pm ET.

This seminar addresses the needs of administrators and programmers who want a thorough overview of the HP Integrity servers and the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system.

Topics will include:

Experienced HP-UX PA-RISC administrators will benefit most from this seminar.

To register: Contact your HP Proactive Support Representative (ASM/TAM, RSAA, CE or other) and let them know you are interested in attending one of the Technical Online Seminar presentations. For more information, visit the HP Tech Services UK website.

The Intel Develop Forum (IDF) returns to the city by the bay this year September 13 - 15. For those of you who haven’t attended in the past, IDF is the premier global technology industry event bringing together technology professionals who are actively directing where technology is going. There are wide variety of Keynotes, Technology and Industry Insights, and Technical Sessions (including lectures, interactive panels, hands-on labs and Hot Topic Q&As) plus a packed Technology Showcase with exhibits and demonstrations from Intel and leading technology companies. Register before July 24 and save $400.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Itanium Solutions Alliance will be hosting the Itanium Innovation Awards concurrently with IDF in San Francisco. The awards celebration will take place at the Westin St. Francis hotel on the evening of September 14th from 5:00 - 8:00. If you work in the high-end server industry and would like to join us for hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and live music as we honor innovation and achievement in solving computing challenges using Intel Itanium technology, please let us know.

Firstly, congratulations and good luck to all the finalists of the 2010 ISA Innovation Awards. As always, I am particular pleased to see two APAC companies in the list of finalists. I would also like to congratulate the Humanitarian Impact winner – COMPUTAEX.

Calendar Q2 has been particularly busy… I had the opportunity to participate in the launch events for HP’s Next Generation Integrity Systems (NGIS) across several cities in APAC.

The launch events were like any other HP events that I have attended in the past – well organized with the agenda well structured. What I felt was even better this time was the level of interest and excitement from the attendees to the NGIS… and I am not exaggerating here.

In some of the cities that I attended, there were several questions related to the NGIS that was asked at the end of the keynote – something you do not see often from the “more conservative” Asian audience. In all of the cities that I attended, there was a lot of interest shown in the actual Integrity blades that were being shown at the back of the hall. Prior to the start of the event, at the coffee breaks and even at the end of the event, a lot of the attendees crowded around to get a closer look at the new Integrity blades and asked lots of questions.

I find the new Integrity blades to be quite innovative in its design and I particularly liked how it scales from a 2S blade up to an 8S blade via the Blade Link module at the front of the blade. Best of all, it shares the same enclosure or chassis as the ProLiant blades.

HP talks about Converged Infrastructure and this is a great example of it – a single architecture for both x86 servers and non-x86 mission critical servers.

Congratulations to HP on the successful launch of the “mission critical converged infrastructure”.

The submissions for the Itanium Innovation Awards were officially scored by our panel of judges on (i) Results produced by solution, (ii) Cost/benefit of solution, (iii) Difficulty of problem addressed by solution, and (iv) Originality of solution (and for the Humanitarian Impact category: Number of persons affected by solution). Within those criteria however, our judges applied their own experience and perspectives on what they were looking for as key differentiators.

One of this year’s judges, Kumaran Pillai, recently blogged about his impressions of this year’s submissions in the Data Center Modernization Category, offering specific insight on how qualified, technical submissions can be ranked against each other.

Kumaran writes:

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Kumaran should know a thing or two about modernizing data centers, he and his company Protegesoft won an Itanium Innovation Award in 2008!