BladeSymphony® is the first true enterprise-class blade system. It introduces Hitachi’s Virtage embedded virtualization technology on Intel® Itanium® processor-based server modules, gives you the option of running Intel® Xeon® processor-based server modules, and also delivers centralized management capabilities and powerful, reliable, and scalable system resources. So you can run mission-critical applications with confidence.

Your business needs to grow, increase profitability, and gain competitive advantage. To achieve this, you need an IT infrastructure that helps you reduce operational costs, accelerate the speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to increase business efficiency. And that’s where the HP Adaptive Infrastructure comes into play. Through the use of technology, you can achieve better business outcomes.

Listen to Benjamin Rudoloph of Parallels, Inc. talk about Parallels Virtuozzo on Itanium-based systems.

Discover how virtualization on Itanium-based systems is helpiong change the way businesses consolidate their computiung resources.

This interview with Itanium Solutions Alliance charter member company Microsoft examines their efforts in the mainframe migration space. Listen to how Microsoft is leading the way for mainframe migration.

Intel designs and manufactures the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor, and works with leading system vendors to help them deliver diverse, mainframe-class systems on an affordable, industry-standard architecture. These efforts are helping to accelerate today's broad migration away from RISC-based and other proprietary and expensive architectures, and toward standards-based systems that deliver better value, flexibility and investment protection for mission-critical business applications.

Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST servers bring all the advantages of open systems into the enterprise data center, enabling companies to consolidate and scale Linux and Windows applications virtually without limit, and to maintain levels of availability and utilization commonly associated with traditional mainframe environments. Flexible partitioning, built-in redundancy, system mirroring and advanced error containment deliver an exceptionally solid foundation for mission-critical applications.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is uniting industry standard components and operating systems with mainframe inspired technologies to deliver a new server category-the open enterprise server. The company's PRIMEQUEST servers combine flexible partitioning and resource allocation with the highest levels of redundancy and fault containment. The result is a family of servers that lets companies scale their Linux and Windows applications to meet their most demanding mission-critical requirements.

HP offers the world's most comprehensive line of Itanium® 2-based servers with its Integrity family of products. From single- and dual-processor blades to high-end SuperDomes with up to 64 Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors and Non-Stop Integrity systems designed for the very highest levels of uninterrupted service, HP delivers complete solutions and services for enterprise customers running Windows, Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS-or all of the above.

Bull’s NovaScale® Intensive servers combine extreme scalability and performance with the robustness of traditional mainframe systems. They have been used notably as HPC (High Performance Computing) servers. Building on that success, demand for its  exceptionally flexible and scalable support for mission-critical data-tier and transactional applications is growing.

BladeSymphony is the first true enterprise-class blade server, combining the density and flexibility of a bladed architecture with the performance, scalability, availability and manageability of traditional mainframe systems. A wide range of enterprise customers are using it to consolidate and scale their most demanding, mission-critical applications, and to virtualize and consolidate systems and workloads at the network edge, the application tier, the database tier-or all three.

NEC combines its rich heritage in advanced mainframe and supercomputer technologies with more than a decade of Itanium® 2-based server development to deliver an open system that takes data center performance, flexibility and reliability to new heights. With up to 32 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, the system provides a next-generation data center architecture for consolidating mission-critical applications running Linux, Windows, HP-UX and NEC's own ACOS operating systems.

SGI combines standards-based processor, memory and I/O components in a modular blade design that delivers remarkable performance and scalability, along with superior density and unique "plug and solve" configurability. Customers are using these systems in large configurations to solve some of today's most demanding scientific and technical problems, and in smaller configurations to deliver cost-effective support for a wide range of tough computing challenges

Human activity, global warming and toxic waste pose a threat to the stability of microbial communities. The impact on microbial communities' genetic diversity is not fully understood, as in-depth research on the issue has not been ongoing - until now.

Many companies with demanding transaction processing requirements, such as fi nancial services and healthcare, are porting their database engines to affordable HPC platforms. By migrating existing 32-bit systems to 64-bit, these fi rms can increase productivity and customer service levels.

The financial services industry is undergoing dramatic change due to globalization, consolidation and partnerships. Financial service institutions (FSIs) are trying to tap into the mass market segment comprised of customers with smaller portfolios. However, new players and novel services are raising customer expectations for greater product range, lower transaction costs and faster delivery of key information.