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And the Winners Are.... Mission-Critical Innovation Awardees Decided

by cjdreher on 12-01-2011 03:27 PM - last edited on 12-02-2011 09:16 PM

The champagne flowed and a string quartet played music amidst the beautiful surroundings at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna for the 2011 Mission Critical Innovation Awards, presented by HP and Intel.  Our own Martin Fink, GM and Senior VP of HP's Business Critical Division presided over the evening, along with Peter Gleissner, Director of EMEA Sales from Intel.  

 

Out of all of our finalist nominees,  Gravic, PinkRoccade Healthcare, University Hospitals and Secure64 were recognized as award category winners for leveraging HP and Intel technologies to address mission-critical computing challenges while achieving new levels of reliability, availability and scalability with some of the world’s most complex applications.  Congratulations!

 

Mr. Gleissner summed it up well: “These winners are the cream of the crop and we commend them for taking innovation to the next level.”

 

WINNING SOLUTIONS

 

Mission-Critical Data: Gravic

A large Canadian bank reengineered its data center architecture with HP Integrity NonStop NS16000 systems and the Shadowbase product suite from Gravic, Inc., lowering the bank’s planned outage time from hours to minutes. The update also reduced system recovery time for unplanned outages by more than 95 percent.  In the event of an unplanned outage, the bank can rapidly restore ATM/POS application services, minimizing customer disruption.

 

Mission Critical Data Winner Gravic RBC.JPG

 

Converged Data Center: PinkRoccade Healthcare (PRH)

Netherlands-based healthcare IT solutions provider PRH improved patient care with HP Integrity BL870c i2 and BL860c i2 server blades running HP-UX.  As a result, PRH’s data center provides application hosting, simplifying management and improving support for its clients. In addition, customers quickly and easily access the critical applications needed to better serve their patients.

 

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Humanitarian and Environmental Impact: University Hospitals (UH) 

UH leveraged HP Integrity rx7640, rx6600 and rx2660 servers running HP-UX to provide continuous availability of radiology reports and images, across all of the health system’s facilities utilizing software from radiology information technology provider and HP partner Sectra. UH worked with HP and Sectra to design, configure and install an online storage and Disaster Recovery site that eliminated downtime, enabling UH to deliver consistent, quality patient care.

 

Humanitarian Award Winner University Hospitals.JPG

 

 

Best New Application: Secure64

Secure64 was recognized for its Secure64 Domain Name System (DNS) Cache software, which provides security, availability and performance for communication service providers. The solution offers protection from the latest security threats and vulnerabilities, including rootkits, malware, and denial-of service attacks. Running exclusively on HP Integrity systems, Secure64 DNS Cache delivers five times the performance of open source BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), the widely-used DNS offering.

 

Best new App Winner Secure 64.JPG

 

Congratulations again to all of our winners, finalists and honorees this year.  We interviewed several of our participants at this year's awards during HP DISCOVER, and will post video footage later on our blog so stay tuned.

 

~Cynthia

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  • Kirk Bresniker is the Vice President/Chief Technologist for HP Business Critical Systems where he has technical responsibility for all things Mission Critical, including HP-UX, NonStop and scalable x86 platforms. He joined HP in 1989 after graduating from Santa Clara University and has been an HP Fellow since 2008.
  • Cynthia is part of the BCS marketing team. Interested in all things mission-critical and what's next on the horizon.
  • Jacob works on HP's CloudSystem offerings. He focuses on the strategy for CloudSystem Matrix and the tighter integration of Matrix and other HP Software offerings.
  • Joe Androlowicz is a Technical Communications and Marketing manager in HP’s NonStop Product Division. Joe is a 25 year journeyman in information systems design, instructional technologies and multimedia development. He left Apple Computer for Tandem Computers to help launch G03 and hasn’t looked back yet. He previously managed the program management team for the NonStop Education and Training Center and drove the development and growth of the NonStop Certification programs.
  • I am with the Business Critical Systems marketing team, focused on mission-critical resiliency.
  • Kevin has worked at Tandem/Compaq/HP for 23 years in a variety of roles ranging from QA/Dev to Release Mgmt to Escalations. Currently he works in the BCS/Nonstop TCE group. In additon, he works closely with HP Connect and is on the Customer Advocacy Committee, representing BCS.
  • Hello! I am on the HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking team, focused on Interactive Web and Social Media Marketing for (ISS) Industry Standard Servers. I will be sharing relevant ISS and HP news & info as it crosses my path.
  • Greetings! I am in the HP Converged Infrastructure team focused on Server, Storage & Networking group at HP and will be sharing news & info as it crosses my path.
  • Lorraine Bartlett leads the worldwide strategy and marketing organization for the Business Critical Systems unit of HP. In this role, Lorraine and her marketing team are responsible for creating positive experiences among market influencers and customers for HP’s mission critical offerings based on BCS products and technologies while preparing the market for our next generation Integrity solutions. The BCS marketing focus is on providing the infrastructure that is absolutely fundamental for the success of the business. Because of the criticality of the servers, BCS customers and our marketing efforts are focused on availability, scalability, performance, flexibility and total cost of ownership. Additionally, Lorraine is responsible for establishing the overall strategy of the BCS business. Prior to this role, Lorraine Bartlett led the Worldwide Server Marketing team responsible for product planning, product management and product marketing for the HP Integrity, HP 9000, and HP AlphaServer families. While heading Server Marketing team, Lorraine oversaw the successful launch of the Integrity blades and the 8 socket ProLiant DL785 server. Over her 25 year career at HP Lorraine has worked in numerous business units in a variety of marketing and engineering positions, including business strategy and planning, solutions marketing, product marketing, product management, technical support and software engineering.
  • In my current role, I work closely with ISVs and drive a program focused on bringing new applications onto NonStop platform. I also lead the 'CI-ready' program for NonStop partners. Previously, I have performed a variety of roles in NonStop's Engineering department. I have been associated with the IT industry for the past 20+ years.
  • Greetings! I am on the HP Converged Infrastructure marketing team focused on Business Critical Systems. Topics I am interested in include mission-critical computing, scale up x86, and Converged Infrastructure
  • I am with the BCS Server Marketing team, focused on networking and storage connectivity options.
  • Vinay Gupta is an HP Distinguished Technologist and the NonStop Manageability Architect. He joined Tandem in 1994 after graduating from Indian Institute of Technology. He has worked on many NonStop manageability applications over time. He works across various groups within NonStop and HP to ensure consistency and interoperability in manageability interfaces and applications. He is also a member of DMTF workgroups.
  • Wendy Bartlett is a Distinguished Technologist in HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division, and focuses on dependability – security and availability - for the NonStop server line. She joined Tandem in 1978. Her other main area of interest is system architecture evolution. She has an M.S. degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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