Watch the video here.

F-Response, an e-Discovery, data recovery, and forensics tool, creates a network connection over IP between machines allowing examiners to conduct analysis of a subject’s computer using various tools.

Matthew Shannon, Founder and Chief Architect of the F-Response software says:

Read the original release on PRLog here.

I’d like to thank the panel of judges of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards for selecting Bernalillo County as the winner of the Data Center Modernization category. When we started this project we saw it as a way to save taxpayer money while improving performance and reliability. We never anticipated the project becoming formally recognized in this major way.

We started the project as a means to upgrade aging hardware that supported many of the departments within the County including Public Safety, the County Clerk’s office, the Assessor’s Office and others. During the project planning phase, we determined that if we replaced our existing servers with the same number of current technology servers, the new servers would, for the most part, be underutilized.

As a result, we decided to take advantage of HP Integrity HP-UX blade servers and an HP software solution called HP Integrity Virtual Machines which allowed us to decrease the number of physical servers we purchased while maintaining the same separation of services that we had in our original environment. Our current environment has approximately 60% fewer physical machines than before.

Using this same suite of software and the newest generation of HP’s Integrity HP-UX blade servers, we anticipate being able to further reduce the number of physical machines we have in place when we build out our new data center in the near future.

If you’re interested reading more about our Itanium-based project, the Case Study is available here. Feel free to share your comments or questions.

Thanks,

Michael Gruen

NPS serves Taiwan’s citizens who are between 15 and 65 years old and who do not participate in other programs including Labor Insurance, Farmer’s Health Insurance, Government Employee’s Insurance or Insurance for Military Personnel. The system consists of a large database which contains personal information for Taiwan’s entire population. For requirements of high performance, stable operations, high availability, and expandability, NPS is designed to provide service to both external users (the general public) as well as internal users (The Bureau of Labor Insurance). There are a total of eight Itanium-based servers used for the Application Server, the Portal Server, and the Database Server. The configuration also includes NEC’s Express5800 Xeon-based servers and NEC’s iStorage disk arrays.

By adopting the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor, we were able to take advantage of the processor’s high-end computing power and reduce the time required to process intensive SQL statements and API algorithms. Thus we increased efficiency and minimized the time needed to process over four million insurance policies. The system enables members to make on-line pension applications and search for their information via the Internet, as well as from terminals installed in all BLI offices. The provision of Internet-based applications and searches is expected to alleviate congestion at customer service counters and deliver improved convenience for members.

The results delivered by the NEC solution are remarkable. NEC NX7700i series servers can automatically detect malfunctions in the hardware before an outage occurs which minimizes downtime. This allows the Itanium 2 processors to exploit their maximum potential. Preliminary performance testing has demonstrated that the system provides impressive results. From the results observed in response time for insert/update/modify commands, the system is quite remarkable. With continuous data insertions for an extended period of time, there are no failed records. And the average response time is under two seconds.

The National Pension System powered by NEC’s Itanium-based servers provides exceptional performance, availability, and scalability and meets all of the mission critical needs of the Bureau of Labor Insurance in Taiwan.

-Emily Chou, Supervisor, IT Platform SI Business Group, NEC Taiwan Ltd.

On October 23rd, Tecplot, a Bellevue, WA based company, released updates to the 2009 versions of Tecplot 360 and Tecplot Focus. The new releases are designed for greater speeds and larger data set handling.

Tecplot’s software provide visualization and analysis that combines vital engineering plotting and advanced data visualization into one tool.

Mike Peery, Tecplot, Inc. president and CEO says:

Enhancements to the 2009 R2 version of Tecplot 360 include Windows 7 and HP/UX Itanium support. The R2 version has been fully tested and is compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system. Support for HP/UX running on Itanium hardware also has been added.

Read the press release here.

Whether the term “mission-critical” deals with keeping customers happy, assembly lines humming, or delivering health care solutions; its good to know that a bunch of smart, focused and innovative engineers have the tools they need, including a mission-critical microprocessor, to help them build remarkable solutions to pressing problems and to keep things running when they can’t afford to go down.

It was truly rewarding to see these real life examples of how a powerful tool like Itanium is being applied to push the bounds of innovation in these important areas. We at Intel are very much looking forward to the 2010 Itanium Innovation Awards program.

In a recent article from PCWorld, James Nicolai states that HP is busy making significant updates to its Integrity line of servers to include the latest generation of Itanium processor, Tukwila. According to the article, HP will also take this opportunity to “modernize” its Integrity hardware.

Referring to the HP Superdome line of Itanium based servers, Lorraine Bartlett, Vice President of HP BCS division is quoted as saying:

Tukwila should allow HP to squeeze the same compute capacity into a system half the size by doubling the amount of cores.

Read the entire from PCWorld here.