Chicago, IL – August 17, 2009 – The Itanium Solutions Alliance® today announced that Clerity Solutions has been selected as a finalist in the Data Center Modernization category of its 2009 Innovation Awards program. Clerity Solutions' UniKix mainframe rehosting software suite provides a mission-critical environment for deploying online and batch mainframe workloads on open systems. By adding support for Itanium-based-systems in UniKix 11.0, Clerity can offer direct and independent software vendor customers greater choice and extremely high reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) levels on open systems.
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.
“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,” said Joan Jacobs, president and executive director of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. “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 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.
Winners will be honored at a special event during the Intel Developer Forum, September 23rd, 2009 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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