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Finalists have also been chosen in the awards program's three other categories: Mission-Critical Data, Data Center Modernization, and Computationally Intensive Applications. Winners will be announced at the 2009 Innovation Awards Celebration on September 23 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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"We are delighted to have received so many worthy entries to our Innovations Awards program this year and would like to thank all the companies from across the world who submitted their Itanium-based projects," said Joan Jacobs, president and executive director of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. "With so many outstanding deployments to choose from, the judges had the difficult task of selecting the Humanitarian Impact winner and category finalists. The organizations recognized this year are to be congratulated for their innovative work, and for demonstrating the power of Itanium-based platforms to tackle intricate business problems and drive singular solutions to global challenges."
"As a spokesman for the whole Kiwok team, I am most honored to receive this prestigious award," said Bjorn Soderberg, sales and marketing director, Kiwok. "But it wouldn't have been possible to create this solution without our core partners, the Karolinska University Hospital, HP, Fair Isaac and Wireless Independent Provider. This award we also see as the start for our international launch, with the goal to have the BodyKom solution up and running in new markets within the coming 12 months."
The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards recognizes and rewards end users and developers for outstanding use of Intel(R) Itanium-based servers in their organizations or applications. Panels of distinguished judges evaluated submissions from 14 countries spanning five continents based on a number of criteria, such as difficulty of challenge, results produced, and originality, and their scores were tabulated to select the finalists and winners in each category.
Humanitarian Impact
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. The winner in this category receives a $50,000 cash award to support their important work.
Humanitarian Impact winner Kiwok's BodyKom collects ECG data from patients whose heart conditions do not require hospitalization, yet require periodic or frequent monitoring. Utilizing an HP Integrity NonStop server to ensure the heart monitoring information is reliable, secure and highly available at all times, the BodyKom technology saves significant resources by freeing up hospital beds and providing immediate feedback on the effects of ongoing treatments.
The following entries were category finalists and earned honorable mentions for their Humanitarian Impact:
Finalists - Computationally Intensive Applications
Finalists - Data Center Modernization
Finalists - Mission-Critical Data
About the Itanium Solutions Alliance
The Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance is a global community of hardware, operating system and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium(R)-based solutions. Formed in September 2005, the Alliance comprises some of the most influential companies in the computing industry with a shared, strategic commitment to delivering mission-critical computing solutions based on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) architecture. http://www.itaniumsolutions.org
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-- XDelta Limited's "Pulse Renewal" project created a disaster-tolerant system for the National Health Service Blood & Transplant organization that manages the entire supply chain of blood products from donation, through testing and blood product production, to the safe and timely issue of blood products across England and North Wales. The system implements disaster-tolerant OpenVMS clusters using Itanium-based HP Integrity Servers and contains the world's largest single national database of blood donors. -- Purvis Systems, contractor to the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY), ported the FDNY's City-wide Management Information and Control System to an HP Itanium rx3600 running OpenVMS V8.3. The system powers dispatch to all five boroughs, supporting the 11,275 uniformed fire personnel in 221 firehouses with approximately 500 vehicles. The system processed approximately 475,000 incidents in 2008 including 26,862 structural fires, with significantly improved incident response times over the previous system. -- Karlsruhe University'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 behavior in the human respiratory system. The end benefits of this project include optimizing asthma sprays, improving the quality of medical operations and understanding the impact of respirable dust.
SOURCE Itanium Solutions Alliance
