The Itanium Solutions Blog

I’m pleased to use this forum to make the first announcement of the Alliance’s fourth annual Itanium Innovation Awards Program. For those not familiar with it, the Alliance uses this program to recognize organizations and individuals who have deployed outstanding solutions based on the Itanium platform. Read about past winners here.

Submissions are now being accepted in the four award categories:

Winners will be honored at an exclusive event held in conjunction with the September Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The gathering is an excellent opportunity to network with executives from the Alliance, Alliance Sponsors, and those who submit award entries. Winners will receive a professional publicity package that includes logos, web banners, and a case study. We will also applaud the winner of the Humanitarian Impact category who will receive a $25,000 cash prize to support their on-going efforts.

Please take the time to complete the short entry form or encourage your customers and/or partners to participate. Help us spread the word about the Innovation Award to the entire Itanium community. Entries are due by April 12, 2010. For more information including the entry form, please go to the Alliance’s Innovation Awards website.

Use this unique opportunity to demonstrate the outstanding value of your Itanium-based solutions and then join the fun at the award ceremony. I look forward to seeing you there!

In this new Alliance whitepaper featuring 8 of our 2009 Itanium Innovation Award finalists, read how real companies tackled mission-critical issues and achieved truly outstanding results using Itanium-based solutions. The companies profiled in this whitepaper represent diverse industries from around the globe including healthcare, energy, education and retail. They  have one important thing in common, their reliance on Itanium servers to successfully power their most mission-critical operations. If you are an enterprise customer evaluating your platform options for a mission-critical application, either a move from a legacy platform or a new deployment, this paper is a must read.

Hello followers of innovative Itanium solutions,

Since winning the 2009 Itanium Innovation Award for Humanitarian Impact, many of you may have been wondering the genesis of the Kiwok BodyKom Series ECG solution. Humbly, I would like to share with you my story — the background of the solution we have today.

As I mentioned in our acceptance speech at the awards ceremony, there is tremendous potential for telemedicine to grow and provide better healthcare and to save substantial heathcare costs. For example, to examine all people in the western world at risk for heart problems with traditional methods would cost roughly $70 billion USD, compared to roughly $9 billion USD with intelligent, remote ECG monitoring like BodyKom Series ECG. Service of this magnitude would use about 15,000 Intel processors (CPU capacity demand).

The solution we developed for heart monitoring can easily be modified to monitor diabetes, blood pressure, or physical activity. Remote sensors can also be paired with more sophisticated equipment and used to detect infectious diseases. The number of people who could be helped by telemedicine in these areas is truly astounding. Watch for more information from Kiwok about expanding into other areas of medicine in the future.

Again, none of this would have been possible without all our great partners and the “zero latency enterprise framework” that HP Itanium-based servers can provide. Thank you to all.

Download the story behind the BodyKom Series ECG here.

Very best regards,

Anders

The Alliance recently received some great coverage for its 2009 Innovation Awards event in San Francisco from Lorraine Bartlett, HP’s Vice President Marketing and Strategy/Operations, Business Critical Systems. On the HP Mission Critical Computing blog, there is a link to some excellent video footage  that was shot at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art featuring short interviews with Lorraine and 5 of our 2009 Award Finalists. I think you will find Lorraine’s post and the Awards Video quite interesting and a great testimony to the truly innovative ways that customers are utilizing Itanium-based servers to solve their most challenging, mission-critical business problems. Many thanks to HP for sharing this video.

The “agora” of Athens was the center of the commercial, social and political activity of the old city of Athens. An ample, open space with different functions where the Athenians met to discuss their laws and to discuss the future of their city; which used to deposit themselves into the practice of oratory, the art to convince.

At the same time Sócrates, gave our form to thinking, an imperishable base of “sofia” (wisdom) that was against leaving the future of the city into the hands of only the sophisticated speakers. He used questioning and examples to demonstrate that the accepted conventions are not always what they appear to be.

Something similar happened in San Francisco at the Innovation Awards gala, with a set of technological categories sustained by different projects and realized by groups of colleagues from different countries who gave new form to the evolution of systems in coming years. Ours one was based on an idea of the Agora of Athens, the “the virtue is knowledge,” transferred to the systems of the 21st century.

I’d like to present to you the Enagas Case study, describing our solution responsible for Spain’s natural gas infrastructure. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.

- César Corachan, Enagas