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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Itanium^® Solutions Alliance today announced the launch of the second Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award. The annual program recognizes unique and innovative deployments of Itanium^® 2-based solutions from all areas of computing and research. The judging panel for the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award is comprised of 11 industry experts and analysts.

End users and developers of Itanium-based applications can enter their solution in one of three areas to be considered for each category’s $50,000 cash prize. Contest entries are due February 29, 2008 with category winners announced later in the spring. The award categories are:

• Humanitarian Impact: The Humanitarian Impact category awards the innovative use of applications running on Itanium-based systems where these systems demonstrate an impact on humanity through research, social improvements or other humanitarian efforts. Examples include weather prediction, storm monitoring, tsunami model forecasting, and genetic and medical research.
• Enterprise Business Application: The Enterprise Business category awards the creative use of applications utilizing the benefits of the Intel^® Itanium^® architecture to produce either hard business results (such as cost savings and ROI) or soft business impact (including customer satisfaction and new product development).
• Entrepreneurial Innovation: This award is open to all entities excluding public companies with revenues exceeding US $25 million in the last reporting period. The award recognizes enhanced business operations using applications that take full advantage of the Intel Itanium architecture and rewards achievements in areas such as IT consolidation, increased ROI or customer satisfaction, and new product development.

Very cool, this article is talking about the Itanium Solutions Alliance, which was announcing areas of innovation using solutions based on the Itanium, it’s always interesting to see how the systems are being used and in what industries or for what kind of solutions.

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