Innovation awards judge weighs in on the submissions
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:
As all the finalist were of very high standards, and since all brought out the value of their Itanium deployment, I was looking out for a differentiator that would set them apart. Generally, I used the additional guidelines below:
- Reduction in CPU utilization running the same apps on the legacy vs the Itanium
- Reduction in the number of CPUs running the same apps on the legacy vs the Itanium
- Direct cost savings as a result (licenses, etc)
- Improvements in the management of the data center
- Ease of partitioning
- Ability to scale the database efficiently
- Ability to migrate / upgrade the servers without impacting the business through minimal downtime
I congratulate all the Finalists and Winners of ISA Award 2010″.
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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!
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