Celebrating groundbreaking people and their work — from all areas of industry and research — developed using Intel^® Itanium-based solutions.

The Itanium Solutions Alliance would like to congratulate the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards winners: Kiwok Nordic, CESGA, Mobiltel and Bernalillo County.

Humanitarian Impact winner: Kiwok Nordic AB. Judges selected Kiwok of Sweden for its BodyKom(TM) Series remote ECG monitor. Deployed in conjunction with caregivers and health systems, BodyKom allows heart patients to live independently while their heart is monitored through a reliable wireless network powered by Itanium-based hardware. The Kiwok system provides automatic, real-time notifications as well as furnishing long-term data for diagnosis and treatment. Utilizing an HP NonStop Itanium-based server to ensure the heart monitoring information is reliable, secure and highly available at all times, Kiwok's technology saves significant resources by freeing up hospital beds and providing immediate feedback on the effects of ongoing treatments. Read the Case Study.

Honorable Mentions in the Humanitarian Impact category were: Karlsruhe University, Purvis Systems, and XDelta Limited.

Computationally Intensive Applications: CESGA. 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 industry. Under the leadership of Dr. José Carlos Mouriño Gallego, who accepted the award, CESGA relied on Itanium-based HP Integrity servers with 1,024 parallel processors and 6TB of memory in attaining the first-of-its-kind solution. The Itanium architecture was key to the success of the effort, as the rigorous integral equation-based solvers used in computational electromagnetics consume massive amounts of RAM memory in such large-scale, real-world calculations. Read the Case Study.

Finalists in the Computationally Intensive Applications category were: HOPS International, Revenue Management Solutions, and the University of Warwick.

Mission-Critical Data winner: Mobiltel. Mobiltel, 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, managed by Simeon Dimitrov, saw Mobiltel migrate its infrastructure to an Itanium-based HP Integrity platform, running both HP-UX and Microsoft® Windows® Server, with significant gains in performance, customer service and scalability to accommodate its rapidly growing subscriber base. Mobiltel reports dramatic cost-of-ownership savings and improved time-to-market for new services from its Itanium-based solution as well as outstanding reliability and protection for its critical business data. Read the Case Study.

Finalists in the Mission-Critical Category were: CMC Limited, Masaryk University, and Online Resources.

Data Center Modernization winner: Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Bernalillo County upgraded its server and storage infrastructure in order to operate more efficiently and provide additional services to county residents in a project led by Mike Gruen, who accepted the award for the county. The county’s Itanium-rich HP solution offers cost savings over the previous mainframe environment, boosts application reliability, increases performance across multiple platforms and allows for expedited new server deployment. Additionally, its Itanium-based IT foundation has paved the path for the county to deploy new initiatives including virtualized application workloads and a new ERP solution. Read the Case Study.

Finalists in the Data Center Modernization category were the Brazilian Navy, Clerity Solutions, and Enagas.

The Alliance would like to thank everyone who made this year's Innovation Awards program possible.