2009 Innovation Awards
An Overview of the Itanium Solutions Alliance
2009 Innovation Awards Program
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2009 Innovation Awards
Celebrating groundbreaking people
and their work — from all areas of
industry and research — developed
using Intel® Itanium-based solutions.
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2009 Innovation Awards
The Itanium Solutions Alliance invites developers, enterprises, small
and midsized business and research institutions from around the world to
earn highly visible recognition for their work developed on Itanium-based
systems.
The third-annual Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards is an
independently judged, worldwide competition that culminates in an exciting
awards celebration during the Intel Developer Forum, September 23rd,
2009 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Awards Categories
Mission-Critical Data: When failure is not an option,
Itanium-based systems blend business-critical
reliability and availability with performance and
scalability to drive the most data-intensive
applications. This category recognizes the success
organizations have delivered by implementing a
database, data warehousing, or line-of-business
solution that takes advantage of the dependability and
performance of Itanium-based platforms.
Data Center Modernization: Itanium-based systems
are the scalable, economical alternative to mainframes.
This category highlights the success of projects in which
an organization has migrated from a mainframe-based
infrastructure to an open architecture framework to
employ the reliability, availability and serviceability of
Itanium-based systems.
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Awards Categories
Computationally Intensive Applications: With
massive memory capacity and enormous scalability,
Itanium-based systems deliver the maximum
horsepower when time-to-results is of utmost
importance. This category recognizes organizations
that have applied their Itanium systems to tackle huge,
critical workloads that demand consistently high
performance and scalable shared resources.
Humanitarian Impact: With massive memory capacity
and enormous scalability, Itanium-based systems deliver
the maximum horsepower when time-to-results is of
utmost importance. This category recognizes
organizations that have applied their Itanium systems to
tackle huge, critical workloads that demand consistently
high performance and scalable shared resources.
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2009 Innovation Awards
The winner in each category receives industry acclaim, international
publicity, a chance to network with top Intel and Sponsor executives, and an
attractive trophy. In addition, each winner will receive a Flash-based video
featuring his or her winning solution for promotional purposes, and be
prominently featured in an active campaign that showcases their solution.
One category, Humanitarian Impact, includes a $50,000 cash awards for
the winning submission.
Past winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards
comprise diverse organizations from many regions across the globe.
Developers, enterprises, small and midsized business and research
institutions are all strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity
to earn highly visible recognition for their work on Itanium-based systems.
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Awards Schedule
• Accepting entries: Currently
• Deadline for entries: May 13th, 2009
• Finalists announced: June 17th, 200
• Humanitarian Impact category winner announced: July 2009
• Innovation Awards Recognition Dinner and celebration: September 23rd,
2009. All winners besides the Humanitarian category will be announced at
the event.
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2009 Innovation Awards Celebration
The 2009 Innovation Awards Celebration will be held
September 23, 2009, at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art and coincides with the Intel Developer Forum
being held at the Moscone Center. As one of the world's
leading museums of modern and contemporary art,
SFMOMA is a striking and sophisticated setting for events
of all kinds -- as well as the best of modern and
contemporary art.
At the celebration, Innovation Award finalists as well as
other industry leaders in enterprise and technical computing
will gather for hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, and live music as
we honor innovation and achievement in solving
organizational challenges using Intel Itanium technology.
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2009 Innovation Awards
\"Winning the 2008 Innovation Award has raised our
profile in the industry, helped draw attention to our
custom migration solutions built on the Itanium platform,
and facilitated our efforts to take Itanium and our
migration expertise to many more companies.\"
Pankaj Kulkarni
2008 Innovation Award winner
Vice President, Research and Development, S7 Software
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2009 Innovation Awards
For more information or to submit an entry, please visit:
http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/itanium_innovation_awards
For questions, please contact:
Brandon Wick
Itanium Solutions Alliance
awards@itaniumsolutions.com
phone: (503) 546-1026
fax: (503) 546-1001
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