Categories
Submissions are judged in the following categories:
 | Mission-Critical DataWhen 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 ModernizationIn today's data centers, open systems are proving to be a scalable, economical alternative to propietary systems. This category highlights the success of projects in which an organization has migrated from a mainframe-based or RISC-based IT infrastructure to an open architecture framework to employ the reliability, availability and serviceability of Itanium-based systems. | ||
 | Computationally Intensive ApplicationsWith 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 InnovationWith their vast computing capabilities, Itanium-based systems are serving as the engines for projects that can change the world for the better. The Humanitarian Impact category awards the innovative use of Itanium-based systems to deliver results that benefit humanity through research, social improvements or other humanitarian efforts. Examples include natural disaster modeling and prediction, resource management, health care advances, and biosciences research. |
