Using Intel Itanium-based server solutions, Clerity, Bernalillo County, Enagas, and the Brazilian Navy are all finalists for the data center modernization award to be presented at this year's Intel Developer Forum.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solution provider Clerity Solutions (www.clerity.com) has been selected by the Itanium Solutions Alliance (www.itaniumsolutions.org) as a finalist in the “data center modernization” category of its 2009 Innovation Awards program for its outstanding use of Intel Itanium-based servers in its applications.
According to its Monday announcement, Clerity’s UniKix mainframe re-hosting software suite, which provides a mission-critical environment for deploying online and batch mainframe workloads on open systems, is in the running for the data center modernization award to be given at the Intel Developer Forum 2009 in San Francisco, which is happening September 22 to 24.
By adding support for Itanium-based systems in UniKix 11.0, Clerity said it can offer direct and independent software vendor customers greater choice and extremely high reliability, availability and serviceability levels on open systems.
“For our second annual Innovation Awards, we received a large number of very compelling entries from across the globe, showcasing a wide variety of innovative applications backed by Itanium-based technology,” Itanium Solutions Alliance president and executive director Joan Jacobs said in a statement. “We are pleased to recognize this year’s finalists for their groundbreaking work with Itanium-based systems from across the spectrum of industry and research.”
The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards were designed to recognize and reward end users and developers for outstanding use of Intel Itanium-based servers in their applications. A panel of distinguished judges evaluated submissions on a number of criteria such as difficulty of challenge, results produced, and originality of the solution.
Aside from Clerity, finalists in the data center modernization category include Bernalillo County, Enagas, and the Brazilian Navy.
Central New Mexico’s Bernalillo County upgraded its server and storage infrastructure in order to operate more efficiently and provide additional services to county residents using an Itanium-rich solution to improve application reliability, increase performance across multiple platforms, consolidate servers and allow for expedited new server deployment.
Enagas, which is responsible for Spain’s gas management, consolidated its legacy Unix infrastructure onto Itanium-based servers, reducing its racks from 12 to four, dramatically lowering application response times and improving the time needed to provision a new testing and development environment from several days to less than an hour.
Finally, 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 a distributed platform with Itanium processors, reducing operating costs by about 80 percent and significantly improving resource management.
The Winner will be announced at a special event September 23 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The Data Center Modernization 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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