I was recently on the panel of judges for the Itanium Solutions Award 2010. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of submissions for the Data Center Modernization award this year.
As all the finalist were of very high standards, and since all brought out the value of their Itanium deployment, I was looking out for a differentiator that would set them apart. Generally, I used the additional guidelines below:
- Improvements in processing power
- Reduction in CPU utilization running the same apps on the legacy vs the Itanium
- Reduction in the number of CPUs running the same apps on the legacy vs the Itanium
- Direct cost savings as a result (licenses, etc)
- Improvements in the management of the data center
- Ease of partitioning
- Ability to scale the database efficiently.
- Ability to migrate / upgrade the servers without impacting the business through minimal downtime.
I congratulate all the Finalists and Winners of ISA Award 2010
