Human activity, global warming and toxic waste pose a threat to the stability of microbial communities. The impact on microbial communities' genetic diversity is not fully understood, as in-depth research on the issue has not been ongoing - until now ...

The financial services industry is undergoing dramatic change due to globalization, consolidation and partnerships. Financial service institutions (FSIs) are trying to tap into the mass market segment comprised of customers with smaller portfolios. H ...

Many companies with demanding transaction processing requirements, such as financial services and healthcare, are porting their database engines to affordable HPC platforms. By migrating existing 32-bit systems to 64-bit, these firms can increase pro ...

The financial services industry is undergoing dramatic change due to globalization, consolidation and partnerships. Financial service institutions (FSIs) are trying to tap into the mass market segment comprised of customers with smaller portfolios. H ...

Many companies with demanding transaction processing requirements, such as financial services and healthcare, are porting their database engines to affordable HPC platforms. By migrating existing 32-bit systems to 64-bit, these firms can increase pro ...

Human activity, global warming and toxic waste pose a threat to the stability of microbial communities. The impact on microbial communities’ genetic diversity is not fully understood, as in-depth research on the issue has not been ongoing &ndas ...

On August 20th, the Itanium Solutions Alliance presented the Innovation Awards to the recipients for 2008. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art provided the ideal backdrop for the Award Celebration. Over 200 guests from the Itanium ecosystem att ...

The Brazilian Navy migrated all mainframe-based database environments— including three large, complex, mission-critical systems: payroll, HR, and accounting systems—to an open, Linux-based system and adopted an HP and Oracle®-based di ...

CMC Limited of India designed and developed the BSE On-Line Trading System (BOLT) for the Bombay Stock Exchange. Due to market growth and IPOs, the system encountered dramatic increases in transaction loads that were straining resources. The migratio ...

Enagás, the company responsible for Spain’s gas management, consolidated its legacy Unix infrastructure into two Itanium-based HP Superdomes to streamline operations. The project reduced racks from 12 to four, dramatically lowered applic ...

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's United Airways project in Germany used Itanium-based HP hardware to analyze the interaction of the human nose, sinuses, larynx and lungs with the goal of compiling a complete numerical simulation of flow behavi ...

Masaryk University in the Czech Republic deployed a massive online information system that integrates 1,600 applications actively used by more than 43,000 students, teachers and other staff into a uniform Web environment. SGI Altix servers running on ...

Revenue Management Solutions maintains one of the largest Microsoft® SQL® Server databases in the world with more than 100 billion records, requiring a system that is secure, reliable, scalable and powerful enough to keep up with massive grow ...

University of Warwick in the United Kingdom greatly improved the computational approach to the Anderson model of localization, an important problem in quantum physics with a wide range of applications. Researchers from the University of Basel in Swit ...

The U.K.’s National Health Service Blood & Transplant organization (NHSBT) initiated its “Pulse Renewal” project to enhance its core business—saving lives. The project delivered a multi-datacenter disaster-tolerant nationa ...

Bernalillo County upgraded its server and storage infrastructure in order to operate more efficiently, deploy a new ERP solution, and provide additional services to county residents. The county’s Itanium-rich solution offers cost savings over t ...

Fundación CESGA, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, Spain, is using the Finis Terrae Supercomputer to analyze massive computational electromagnetics problems, the largest with more than 500 million unknowns, for improvement of design in ind ...

Deployed in conjunction with caregivers and health systems, BodyKom Series™ ECG allows heart patients to live independently while their heart is monitored through a reliable wireless network powered by Itanium-based hardware. The Kiwok system p ...

Bulgaria’s leading telecommunications provider faced significant subscriber growth, which seriously impacted the performance of its customer relationship management and billing applications. The winning project saw Mobiltel migrate its infrastr ...

In order to drive better value for spending, the IT team at the New South Wales Health Department (NSW Health) plans to migrate their IT infrastructure to a shared services model using Intel® architecture–based servers that deliver industry ...

For more than 130 years, Sedus Stoll AG has been one of Europe’s top furniture manufacturers. The Germanbased group has expanded considerably through acquisition in recent years, its merger with Gesika Büromöbelwerk GmbH in 2002 being ...

For scientists and engineers, data is a problem that just keeps growing. Today’s models and algorithms are increasingly complicated, and digital simulation has all but replaced physical testing of prototypes. As a result, data sets have swelled ...

Kindred Healthcare is a health care provider that deploys Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to support the Information Systems (I/S) needs of hundreds of facilities countrywide. For financial software applications, Kindred uses SAP R/3 Fina ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) established in 1972 is the number one*** shipbuilding company in the world earning a good reputation for building large cargo carrying ships that transport Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), as ...

With their current and future competitiveness at stake, aircraft manufacturers require a high-performance technical computing (HPTC) platform that will scale to their computational requirements. At the same time, these companies place a high premium ...

There is something to be said for being dependable, available and completely reliable.

IDC conducted in-depth interviews with two ISVs, located in two different regions of the world, to characterize the development environment on Itanium-based servers. Having more than 13,000 applications running on Itanium-based servers implies that t ...

When the Azerbaijan Republic gained independence, it inherited a slightly modified version of the pension system operated by the former USSR. This system had been designed for that centralised economy but could not provide adequate and financially su ...

Banca Popolare di Vicenza has created a new business intelligence system to enable senior management to collect, analyse, and act on real-time information. The new system was implemented by the bank's IT subsidiary Informatica Vicentina. The solution ...

Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) is the government agency in charge of managing retirement pensions for 95 percent of Uruguayan working citizens, as well as payment of pensions, family allowances and other social security benefits. Six years fo ...

With constant pressure to develop powerful yet cost-effective technology solutions, financial institutions are recognizing the economic advantages and operational benefits of investing in a high-performance IT infrastructure.

A research team at the Bourns College of Engineering, University of California Riverside (UCR), developed a simpler process to program FPGAs. The team, headed by Walid Najjar, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, ...

The successful implementation of the Brazilian Payment System (SPB) on an HP-Intel-Microsoft Platform in April 2002 helped Bovespa make the decision to migrate all of its business applications - previously running on mainframes - to a new IT environm ...

One of SAP's first customers, Burda Digital has decades of experience with SAP business solutions. Burda Digital is renowned for its abilities in this field and is responsible for providing SAP® R/3® services to 1,300 of the 7,400 employees o ...

Campana Systems, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, is an international leader in information solutions for the auto club and health care industries. Since 1988, the company has enabled clients to achieve their ongoing business objectives using Camp ...

When Capita Insurance Services surveyed its existing information technology (IT) infrastructure for processing claims, the company saw legacy systems with a complexity that made it difficult to meet the ever-shifting demands of the business and custo ...

Faced with unpredictable market fluctuations, limited resources, and mounting industry and government regulations, organizations are turning to server consolidation to improve their efficiencies and create a simplified and integrated IT environment.

Guizhou Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom processes an average of 28.8 million customer transactions per day. These are managed through its nine local networks in the various counties, prefectures and cities in its jurisdiction. Managing and mai ...

Cheng Loong Corp., (CLC) ranks among the top 100 paper mills worldwide and is the largest manufacturer of industrial paper and corrugated containers in Taiwan. CLC has long been recognized for its outstanding technology, quality, and services in this ...

In 1950, Anthony and Josephine Marano founded The Anthony Marano Company, a wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving Chicago and the Upper Midwest. At the helm of the company for most of his life, Marano has seen six children and a third genera ...

As an industrial telecommunications leader in Taiwan, Chunghwa Telecom is always looking for innovative ways to manage their vast telecom network. The application of BEA WebLogic on an HP system using Intel Itanium 2 processors enabled Chunghwa Telec ...

In this picturesque spot in southern England, not far from a 13th Century cathedral that watches over the town of Salisbury, is one arm of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the center of scientific excellence for the UK Ministry o ...

As one of the nation's leading technology retailers of computers and home electronics, CompUSA* knows the value of technology. The retailer runs its business largely on Intel® technologies that support businesscritical functions including a one t ...

This paper looks at the latest trends in the market with respect to core system replacement and outlines Microsoft’s strategy for larger banks that are considering a service-oriented architecture (SOA)–based approach to migrating their le ...

UK pensions provider Scottish Life, part of the Royal London Group, relied on systems running ten million lines of code and managing nearly a billion data records. Launched in 1993, the previous system was struggling to maintain service levels. Inter ...

Seven Tactics to Lower the Risk and Optimize the ROI of Data Center Modernization

Globalization now affects every aspect of the automotive industry. While the auto market has reached the saturation point in Western economies, this level has yet to be attained elsewhere. With the emergence of Russia as an independent country in ...

To compete in today’s financial services industry, banks face a dizzying array of challenges. They must accelerate transaction processing, manage risks, and comply with government regulations. At the same time, they must continually enhance ...

As the master of system resources, the operating system has the greatest responsibility for achieving security. It controls the resources of the computer - memory, CPU, I/O devices - and has an obligation to protect the system from unauthorized acces ...

Like other companies in its industry sector, Emmi needs to safeguard product quality and ensure full traceability. This need led to a decision to replace its existing ERP system with J. D. Edwards, which offered the potential of achieving full visibi ...

The specific benefits customers have experienced after deploying Itanium and some of the inherent drivers for Itanium adoption such as standardization.

In the summer of 2004, HDMS began looking at alternatives to the Dell and Microsoft® Windows® platform, upon which they initially implemented DART. HDMS, a long-time SAS shop, had created its DART service on SAS and Futrix, an off-the-shelf B ...

NTK (HK) Ltd., a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of connectors, cable assembly, thermal solutions and DVD loaders with operations in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, is gearing up to be a world-class manufacturer. Founded in 1984, the group, with its 750-st ...

After an exhaustive international selection process, involving no less than 278 different assessment criteria, Bull was chosen for the value of its technological solution, its knowledge of Open Source software, and its expertise in high-performance c ...

Fallon Clinic, a 77-year-old multi-specialty medical group in central Massachusetts that serves about 200,000 active patients annually, has long been known for its high clinical standards. So when it decided to split away from the HMO with which it h ...

The modernization of China's economy over the past several years has brought along rapid growth in several industries, including the transportation and petrochemical industries. This growth has created an increase in demand for energy in the form of ...

Lower Saxony police need to be able to deal with crime and emergencies around the clock. Its applications are mission critical and data intensive including operative, administrative and statistical and management information tasks. In the past, indiv ...

Fiserv Investment Support Services (Fiserv ISS), one of the largest trustees of self-directed retirement plans in the U.S., recently adopted an Itanium 2–based HP Integrity server platform equipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating sy ...

ING combined a data warehouse to manage their customers’ credit history with an Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based solution and Microsoft Windows® operating system. The main requirement was starting with a basic solution, which would ...

Quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange since 1912, the company has 19,000 shareholders and assets under management in its mutual funds totalling a1.5 billion. It is headquartered in Helsinki with 80 branch offices, from which 1,500 agents service some ...

As one of the nation’s leading title insurance underwriters, First American Title Insurance Company constantly seeks ways to deliver innovative products and services to customers while increasing efficiency. The company provides timely and accu ...

The collaboration between NEC, Microsoft and Intel is bearing fruit, offering high-end capabilities often associated with the mainframe environment, but in the world of Windows Servers on Intel Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. The part ...

Scandinavian group Arla Foods is one of the world's leading manufacturers of dairy products operating in 25 countries worldwide. With a global presence of over 117,000 retail customers and more than 12,000 product references, Arla Foods manipulates t ...

General Mills operates the core of its business—supply chain, product lifecycle management, finance, human resources, business intelligence and data warehouse— on SAP R/3 and an Oracle9i database running on HP-UX11i v2 on Intel® Itani ...

The Internet is transforming publishing into a business that capitalizes on customer relationships, not just content. Traditional publishers are adopting Web-based processes to increase operational efficiency and create channels beyond books to reach ...

GETIN Bank realised that effective response to industry demands and competition demanded an IT infrastructure to enable the introduction of new products and services through multiple channels and over a wider geographical area. It wanted a centralise ...

The Hungarian financial market is a demanding environment for any bank. With around national players, and following Hungary's recent integration into the EU, companies must strengthen their competitive edge and increase customer base in order to surv ...

The Harman Pro Group, headquartered in Northridge, California, is a division of Harman International Industries, a leading manufacturer of high-quality, high-fidelity audio products and electronic systems for the consumer, professional, and OEM Autom ...

When TWC needed to replace RISC database servers that were reaching their end of life, it chose HP Integrity servers powered by the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor.

BladeSymphony® is the first true enterprise-class blade system. It introduces Hitachi’s Virtage embedded virtualization technology on Intel® Itanium® processor-based server modules, gives you the option of running Intel® Xeon&re ...

First American Title Insurance Company manages more than 25 percent of the title insurance business in the U.S. and helps millions of people every year fulfull the dream of home ownership.

The consumerization of IT has resulted in customers, suppliers, employees and investors increasingly becoming tech savvy. Users of IT want to be always connected using simple approaches. Mobility and collaboration without boundaries (time, space, org ...

Laboratorios Genéricos Farmacéuticos S.A., Genfar, was founded almost 40 years ago with 100% Colombian partners and capital. Well-known by its constant development and innovation, Genfar has become one of the leading companies concernin ...

Can the interaction of carbohydrates and proteins hold the secret to preventing pain and disease? It’s a simple question. But finding answers requires incredibly complex computer-based simulations. That’s where HP High Performance Compute ...

In 1964, Bucks County Community College (BCCC) was founded in response to a need for a public two-year collegiate institution to serve graduates of the County's high schools and other citizens who would benefit from an experience in higher education. ...

In 2004, Rice received an equipment grant from HP that included two high-end video servers and a powerful workstation. Rice received a number of Itanium® 2-based Integrity servers including an HP Integrity Server rx4640 (4-way), an HP Integrity S ...

Effective policing demands a fast response to reported incidents. This in turn requires effective planning and coordination so that available resources can be deployed optimally. IT can play an important role, as illustrated by the experience of the ...

ASMO III has recently been developing small cars aimed at creating a new segment in the Indonesian market. For example, development of the new Daihatsu XENIA has focused on maximizing the strengths of Daihatsu, which has resulted in a high-performanc ...

Based in Krakow, Poland, Veracomp SA is a distributor of advanced IT solutions, focusing on server, network, and storage solutions. Its portfolio includes HP products. In 2004, when the computing power of its installed solutions proved insufficient, ...

After legacy servers became overrrun by data demands, the university turned to HP Integrity servers running on Intel Itanium 2 processors to handle their clustered computing needs.

The financial services industry is among the most intensely scrutinized and heavily regulated sectors of the American economy today. It is also one of the most dynamic. Change is the one constant in the continually evolving financial services industr ...

Italian company Elettric 80 is one of the leading suppliers of turnkey solutions for the ‘end-of-theproduction- line’ market, with a range that includes warehouse management systems, robotic palletisers, stretch wrappers, and laser-guided ...

ebm-papst GmbH & Co. KG, a leading global manufacturer of state-of-the-art thermal management solutions for the electronics industry, wanted to improve protection of business-critical applications against system downtime by moving applications fr ...

When you’re running the premier web destination for well-heeled business executives, one thing is certain: your pages have to load quickly, and Forbes.com wanted to ensure they were up to this challenge.

Nordzucker is Europe’s second largest sugar producer and supplier of natural sweeteners. Its core business includes the extraction and processing of sugar for the food industry as well as the supply of a wide variety of sugar products for retai ...

This podcast showcases Interactive Supercomputing's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

This podcast showcases Kindred Healthcare's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

This podcast showcases Royal London Group's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

This podcast showcases Secure64's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

This podcast showcases Stony Brook University professor Dr. Carlos Simmerling's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

This podcast showcases University of California-Riverside's submission for the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award

When creating new applications, it’s no surprise that developers want to reuse the functionality from existing systems rather than build everything from scratch. To enable greater software reuse, companies are changing software architecture and ...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s ongoing efforts to better understand and predict hurricane behavior became more important than ever. The 2006 hurricane season was the focus of a major research project, which Intel and Northrop Grumman ...

Over the past decade buyers of low end and mid range servers voted with their pocketbooks for servers based on x86 processors; these systems now account for over 90 percent of all servers priced below $50,000. This shift from proprietary to industry- ...

IDC research shows that while volume servers have driven much of the unit growth in recent years, business demands require servers that are scalable and that support the highest levels of availability, performance, and resiliency. IDC’s workloa ...

Through its rapid "tick-tock" cadence for microprocessor innovation, Intel introduces a new microarchitecture or a new technology (that includes enhanced microarchitecture features) nearly every year. The result is a cycle of industry- ...

Intrado Inc. (http://www.intrado.com), the 9-1-1 pioneer, provides the core of the nation’s 9-1-1 infrastructure. Intrado’s database management and call-routing services support more than 90 percent of the 9-1-1 calls placed in the United ...

For many years, business intelligence (BI) applications have been used primarily to collect and analyze historical data. Analytical tools have been concentrated in the hands of just a few well-trained users, and results have been used by high-level e ...

Itanium®-based servers are helping many of the most successful financial services organizations in the world scale and adapt their core systems and applications more quickly and cost-effectively.

In updating its IT infrastructure to support the SAP solution, KCM sought a cost-effective, reliable and powerful solution, with the scalability required to meet future needs. KCM selected HP Integrity servers for several compelling reasons. First, t ...

Integration of existing telecommunication network operation systems dispersed according to services and facilities in six areas (service configuration management, error acceptance management, facility management, quality control, operator control, ne ...

Mitel (www.mitel.com) is a leading provider of communications solutions that deliver Internet Protocol (IP)–based voice, video, and data services over a single broadband network. Building on three decades of success as a private branch exchange ...

Based in southern Germany, BLANCO GmbH + Co KG is one of the leading providers of innovative, design-oriented system solutions for workstations in KITCHEN TECHNOLOGY, CATERING + MEDICAL SYSTEMS. One of the company's biggest challenges is to maximize ...

Analysing fingerprint evidence from crime scenes is a crucial component of the work done by the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre. Until recently, its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) was accessed through local PCs using sta ...

For engineers in product design analysis settings, today’s competitive business climate means delivering more complex analysis in less time than ever before. Nowhere is this more critical than in the area of automotive crash simulation. Over 60 ...

Most enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions have evolved over many years, leaving IT organizations with a patchwork of systems and applications that are costly to maintain and difficult to integrate, upgrade and expand. To address these issues, ...

Businesses are moving toward real-time information models in which data is collected, analyzed and distributed almost instantly to users and applications. Though the transition will be gradual, it is already beginning in businesses that are particula ...

Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH (LTL) supplies maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services to 450 airlines worldwide. Its heterogeneous server environment delivered low performance and high maintenance costs and also had availability and scalabil ...

This paper examines two representative case studies to investigate the economic factors for migrating application work loads off of mainframe platforms in favor of open systems alternatives. The first case is based on a manufacturing company which re ...

Your business needs to grow, increase profitability, and gain competitive advantage. To achieve this, you need an IT infrastructure that helps you reduce operational costs, accelerate the speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to i ...

To transform its traditional inventory control with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, Clotex Labels Co. Ltd selected Intel® Solution Services as its overall RFID Technology Advisor and Supply Chain & Logistics Technology Ltd. ...

While MarketerNet evaluated alternative server solutions, testing conducted at the Microsoft Technology testing center in Chicago revealed that when running on an 8-way NEC Express 5800/1000 series Itanium® 2-based server, SQL delivered three tim ...

Masaryk University is the premier university in Eastern Europe. To support its population of thirty seven thousand students and faculty members, Masaryk University´s academic information system must manage terabytes of information and make all ...

Team McLaren Mercedes is one of the most successful teams in the history of Grand Prix racing – an industry where sport meets technology for the business of entertainment. Every two weeks during the racing season, McLaren competes against its f ...

For Metropolitan Hospital (Metro Health) of Grand Rapids, Michigan, it all began with a rather ordinary requirement for additional space. In 2001, the community hospital had outgrown its landlocked 13-acre campus and was searching for a new location. ...

This paper examines the economic justification for server consolidation of Microsoft SQL Server databases on HP Integrity servers through the financial analysis of two distinct customer environments. The financial analysis presented in this paper ...

This interview with Itanium Solutions Alliance charter member company Microsoft examines their efforts in the mainframe migration space. Listen to how Microsoft is leading the way for mainframe migration.

As Bulgaria's leading telecommunications operator, Mobiltel, faced significant subscriber growth, the performance of its customer relationship management (CRM) and billing applications were suffering. The company upgraded its server infrastructure to ...

Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award honorable mention Infosys uses Itanium 2-based systems to enhance their core banking abilities.

Mainframes have been a cornerstone of enterprise computing for more than 40 years. Though these systems remain key assets in many companies, the associated hardware, software and support costs are extremely high compared with today’s standards- ...

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) is the world’s third-largest stock exchange in terms of transactions, and covers more than 330 cities across the country. With a 43.38 percent annual compound growth rate over the last nine years and t ...

With 1,000 beds and over 2,200 employees, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Linz (AKH Linz) is the main hospital of the capital of Upper Austria. It caters for 50,000 in-patients and offers over 5.4 million out-patient services in addition to carrying out 30,0 ...

Kindred’s attention to quality for its patients is also legendary, with more than 90 percent of its Hospital Division customers rating care as Very Good to Excellent. Behind the scenes, Kindred achieved its success through meticulous and tho ...

Kindred’s attention to quality for its patients is also legendary, with more than 90 percent of its Hospital Division customers rating care as Very Good to Excellent. Behind the scenes, Kindred achieved its success through meticulous and though ...

Multiyork needed an IT foundation that could provide enhanced connectivity, performance improvements, and scalability for future growth. Most of all, the company needed a standardized foundation that would enable it to turn change into a competitive ...

In the quest to develop new innovative products, researchers are increasingly relying on computational technologies to help simulate the properties of new materials. Ultimately, scientists engaged in materials research aim to develop new compounds th ...

Recognized as one of the nation’s fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche, the Washington Post, Forbes, and Bank Technology News, Online Resources (NASDAQ: ORCC) is a leading provider of B2B2C Web-based financial services. ...

Sometimes the answer to enterprise transparency can seem opaque. Open systems computing helps create trust in the business world and is your first step towards sustainable innovation.

The late 20th century technological and industrial efficiencies have resulted in an integrated global environment where R&D, manufacturing, distribution, finance, and sales can maximize regional efficiencies and productivity. This “tightly ...

Many companies are porting their application software to affordable high performance computing (HPC) platforms, motivated by increasing performance and creating new market opportunities. The main objective of any porting effort is to create an applic ...

After evaluating its high-performance, super-computing platform, the organization realized it needed to replace an older machine to enable required modeling for solid and fluid mechanics research. Its decision to deploy Itanium® 2 is detailed bel ...

Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) Star-P Software Enables 200 Times Speedup of Genomic Profiling without Significant Software Re-programming on Itanium-based Servers

Healthways recently acquired an HP Integrity server with multiple Itanium 2 processors running HP-UX 11i v2 and Informatica's PowerCenter 7.1 data integration software optimized for 64-bit processing. The result: more than a tenfold improvement in pe ...

Founded in 1930, today Pininfarina is one of the major service providers in the automotive sector, capable of providing vehicle manufacturers with solutions based on its know-how and flexibility through every phase of design, product and process engi ...

To compete internationally, enterprises need IT infrastructures that grow dynamically in pace with business requirements. They need applications that support real-time processes, manage information without delay, and communicate seamlessly with custo ...

In the fashion industry, there are two types of companies: those that lead and those that follow. At leading Italian fashion company Prada, a solution based on reliable, scalable HP Integrity rx5670 Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Oracle9i, S ...

Qualcomm purchased a number of HP Integrity servers to raise their confidence that their IT systems would continue operating at levels above their needs and be able to scale with the rising need for computing.

This white paper discusses the state of the industry, detailing market drivers for mainframe-class features on a server and the benefits of open source technology solutions, explaining the background and history of open source virtualization, beginni ...

To further its research, the FMI recognized the need to purchase a scalable and reliable HPC solution that would offer any-time access to key data and analysis tools. After a two-month benchmark process in early 2005, the FMI chose to install two Int ...

Japan’s semiconductor industry – considered the foundation of the digital consumer electronics industry – has been recovering rapidly in recent years. One key company that has spurred this remarkable revival has been Renesas Technol ...

RMS maintains one of the largest Microsoft® SQL databases in the world – totaling over 50 billion records. The company collects a huge quantity of data points about each client’s business such as item number, selling price, item cost ...

When Rohwedder AG, a market leader in automation engineering solutions, decided to migrate its enterprise software to SAP R/3 and SOMA, a mySAP All-in-Onebased mechanical and systems engineering application, the company believed the time was also rig ...

The Royal London Group manages life assurance, savings and investment products, pensions, and protection insurance for more than three million customers. In 1993 its Scottish Life division, a major UK pension provider, implemented a powerful IT syst ...

The Royal London Group manages life assurance, savings and investment products, pensions, and protection insurance for more than three million customers. In 1993 its Scottish Life division, a major UK pension provider, implemented a powerful IT syst ...

SAI Global not only promotes and enables adherence to standards for other organizations, but also leads by example. To uphold a high standard of quality and efficiency in its own operations, SAI Global Limited relies on a comprehensive PeopleSoft Ent ...

The Danish Directorate of Fisheries (DDF) is tasked with supplying accurate and easy-to-use data on fishing in waters controlled by the organization. Dealing with strict EU regulations and quotas, the DDF tames a sea of data to gain the upper hand in ...

In 2003, Itanium® Solutions Alliance member, SGI launched a single image system which used
up to 64 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and 512GB of memory using a custom build (Pro Pack) of
the Linux kernel. Next-generation servers im ...

AKD Trade sought the help of Intel and Microsoft to provide a scalable solution that would handle increasing growth both now and for the future. With their newly deployed system, AKD Trade can support 3,000 concurrent users, up from the previous 700 ...

The overriding reason for transforming Schneider Electric's IT infrastructure was that the company needed an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for its newly created regional logistics hub in Hong Kong. Orders and negotiations for fast-movin ...

This white paper discusses the industry-leading features and functions of the Itanium 2 processor for mission-critical computing. It illustrates why the above-mentioned vendors all chose this microprocessor as the foundation for their Linux- and Wind ...

The performance and availability of the SGI Altix platform, and a close working partnership between Oracle and SGI, have helped Konami to bring a more satisfying player experience-and a more powerful, cost-effective management tool-to its customers i ...

From its inception, SGI has been about one thing: BIG DATA. Whether crunching it, storing it or visualizing it, SGI systems have always excelled at helping people turn mountains of data into knowledge.

INTA uses an HP StorageWorks ESL E-Series Tape Library, LTO Ultrium media technology, and an HP StorageWorks 5000 Enterprise Virtual Array to store and back up large amounts of research information. The EVA5000’s virtualization features let INT ...

Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. (SCL), a part of the TVS group, established in 1962, pioneered the manufacture of air brake systems in India. Today, the Company has two divisions - Brakes Division (at Chennai) and Die-casting Division (at Chennai & Hosur), ...

This white paper describes the growing pressures on the data infrastructure of today’s businesses, and discusses the overall IT and business value of Sybase ASE 15 running on Linux and Itanium-based servers.

A new computational approach has been developed by Drs. Yuriy Fofanov, Director of the Bioinformatics Lab, and Lennart Johnsson, Director of the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2), in a six-year collaboration with many other faculty members ...

HP worked with G-Trade to develop an Adaptive Enterprise, synchronizing its IT resources with business needs to capitalize on business growth and change. Today, G-Trade Services has removed a critical barrier to business growth by upgrading from a 32 ...

Market momentum for Itanium®-based solutions is accelerating worldwide, as businesses move away from proprietary architectures to reduce their total costs and achieve higher levels of performance, scalability, and availability.

Itanium-based servers are already supporting core applications for some of today's largest and most successful healthcare providers and research institutions. As computing demands continue to grow, Itanium-based systems will be increasingly valuable ...

The GSC has chosen the HP Integrity rx5670 server for RAM-dependent processing. Running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® AS 3 operating system and configured with Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and 96 GB of RAM, the server enables the GSC to c ...

DKRZ recently upgraded its computer systems and became one of Europe's fastest supercomputer facilities, used for climate research. They now have the latest supercomputers from NEC, the SX-6 series, and a unified data management system, based on the ...

The Chongqing Labor & Social Security Information Network is a Chinese government agency handling the social security needs of over five million of the city’s citizens—17.7 percent of Chongqing’s 30.9 million population. But mil ...

The University of Houston develops computational tools to predict the impact of global warming, human activities and toxic waste on microorganisms.

Agility is a critical aspect in the car rental business. Ensuring fast access to vehicle availability information and customer registration data is a differentiator. Unidas Rent a Car’s fast growth and its need to ensure high-quality customer s ...

The Stony Brook HIV PR research project team saved time by running simulations on Itanium-based servers. The simulations took about 20,000 SGI Altix CPU hours and the project lasted about six months. The team estimated that it would have taken about ...

Companies don't need to experience a disaster firsthand to see the importance of having a solid
disaster recovery plan. From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, the first decade of this century has made
it abundantly clear that the worse can happen ...

Bull’s NovaScale® Intensive servers combine extreme scalability and performance with the robustness of traditional mainframe systems. They have been used notably as HPC (High Performance Computing) servers. Building on that success, demand ...

Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers bring all the advantages of open systems into the enterprise data center, enabling companies to consolidate and scale Linux and Windows applications virtually without limit, and to maintain levels of availability and utiliz ...

HP offers the world's most comprehensive line of Itanium® 2-based servers with its Integrity family of products. From single- and dual-processor blades to high-end SuperDomes with up to 64 Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors and Non-Stop Integrity ...

BladeSymphony is the first true enterprise-class blade server, combining the density and flexibility of a bladed architecture with the performance, scalability, availability and manageability of traditional mainframe systems. A wide range of enterpri ...

Intel designs and manufactures the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor, and works with leading system vendors to help them deliver diverse, mainframe-class systems on an affordable, industry-standard architecture. These efforts are helping to acceler ...

NEC combines its rich heritage in advanced mainframe and supercomputer technologies with more than a decade of Itanium® 2-based server development to deliver an open system that takes data center performance, flexibility and reliability to new he ...

SGI combines standards-based processor, memory and I/O components in a modular blade design that delivers remarkable performance and scalability, along with superior density and unique "plug and solve" configurability. Customers are using t ...

As virtualization is quickly becoming an important technology across all parts of the IT environment, the technology is rapidly being incorporated in storage, networks, and client environments. By far the most visible adoption of virtualization techn ...

Discover how virtualization on Itanium-based systems is helpiong change the way businesses consolidate their computiung resources.