Unique Itanium^®-based solutions advance environmental protection research, empower financial services industry and increase customer satisfaction

SAN RAMON, Calif., May 19, 2008 - The Itanium^® Solutions Alliance today announced the winners of its second annual Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award. The global award program recognizes innovation and achievement using Intel^® Itanium^® proces ...

Itanium-based Solutions Expand Collaborations with Industry Leaders

SAN RAMON, Calif., May 19, 2008 - The Itanium^® Solutions Alliance today announced significant momentum in multiple areas, including worldwide growth of Itanium^®-based systems, updates on its partnership with Microsoft, a new agreement with Sophos and a technology preview of Sun Microsystems Java 6.0 on Itanium-based servers.

Tokyo, April 17, 2008 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the immediate availability of a new line of mission-critical IA servers, the PRIMEQUEST 520A/540A/580A, built around the newest Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 9100 series processor.

Fujitsu also announced that the PRIMEQUEST 580A posted the fastest results in the industry on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution ...

Itanium^®-based systems achieve record gains in Asia-Pacific Region

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, Shanghai, April 2, 2008 - The Itanium^® Solutions Alliance today announced another series of positive indicators that point to strong and growing support for Itanium^®-based systems industry wide. The Asia-Pacific region experienced record gains in Itanium-based system volume and revenue. Additionally, the Alliance contin ...

By Bill Worley, Ph.D.

"Security is a complete myth on the Internet." That's the message a hacker group posted on 10 European Nintendo sites in 2001. Though "complete myth" may be an overstatement, those hackers had a good point. The Internet was vulnerable back then. Unfortunately, it is just as vulnerable today.

Among the most serious points of vulnerability are the Domain Name System (DNS) servers that lie at the heart of Internet functionality. The DNS tran ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today offers the industry's first enterprise server with dynamic hardware partitioning functionality for Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 - the NEC Express5800/1320Xf. This advancement in affordable mainframe-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) and flexibility is yet another high point of seven years of collaboration between Microsoft ...

NEC Validates Performance Leadership

Santa Clara, CA - Feb. 20, 2008 - NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, announced today that on January 21, 2008, the NEC Express5800/1320Xf server with 84 NEC D3-10 storage arrays reported the highest TPC-C* performance benchmark result among 16-processor Intel® server platforms that use Oracle® Database and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. BEA® Tuxedo® 8 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), in collaboration with Intel Corp., today announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures.

Introduced last year at Oracle OpenWorld 2006, the Application Modernization Initiative is a comprehensive solution that helps businesses modernize their legacy envir ...

Driven by New Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 Series, SGI Altix 450 Server Smashes Oracle Benchmark Records

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oracle OpenWorld, (November 12, 2007)—At the world's largest gathering of Oracle software users, SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced its SGI® Altix® platform has again broken the per ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1, 2007 – The Itanium® Solutions Alliance today announced the launch of the Itanium® Solutions Guide (www.itaniumsolutions.com), an online resource providing IT professionals and enterprise business end users with data on how Itanium®-based computing can solve their business problems. The So ...

Itanium Solutions Alliance to Award $50,000 Cash Prizes for Ultimate Solutions

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, September 18, 2007 – 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 Ita ...

Alliance membership doubles, ISV ecosystem reaches critical mass

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, September 18, 2007 – Today, the Itanium® Solutions Alliance announced strong momentum in several areas, which mirrored Itanium® 2-based solutions growth worldwide. Alliance membership doubled in one year with more than 200 participants now part of the effort to promote open, industry standard solutions based on Intel® Itanium&r ...

Upcoming Release Offers Optimized Integrated Software Virtualization for Itanium

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, September 19, 2007 – The Itanium® Solutions Alliance, in collaboration with Red Hat™ today announced that in the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1 (RHEL), integrated software virtualization will be supported and optimized for Itanium® 2-based systems. This release broadens ...