Mission-Critical Innovation Awards

Mission-Critical Data

Winner:
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)—An India-based provider of IT services, business solutions and outsourcing, improved collaboration among their 240,000 global employees by enhancing scalability, performance and stability for new social networking platforms using HP Integrity servers running Intel® Itanium® 9300-series processors and HP-UX. TCS also used HP ProLiant BL460c servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and virtualized with VMware for additional support of database applications. The new infrastructure offers high-availability features and a reliable failover solution for TCS, while also providing the company with a scalable solution that is less complex than competitive offerings.

Finalists:
Alinma Bank—The “bank of the people” in Saudia Arabia, refreshed their mission-critical environment with an HP Converged Infrastructure and gained an impressive reduction in data processing time, with great ROI and TCO.

Istituto G. Caporale—An Italian public health institution for animal and public health safety, reduced processing time from over 12 hours to less than one hour with an HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure.

Honorable Mention:
RI-Solution GmbH—A Germany-based provider of solutions to the retail and wholesale trade, achieved 100% availability with 30% lower TCO with an HP private cloud solution for application services.

TOT Public Company Ltd.—A national telecommunications operator in Thailand increased performance and TCO with a highly-reliable automated customer response system.

Humanitarian/Environmental Impact

Winner:
Istituto G. Caporale (ICT)—The Italian National Public Health Service, a public health institution, provides scientific and technical support to national and regional governments in animal health and welfare, veterinary public health, and food safety. ICT deployed HP Superdome 2 with HP-UX 11i v3 to analyze more than 1 billion records annually and expand research for effective control and prevention of disease. The agency also deployed the datonix.it web application on HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures with HP Integrity BL860c i2 server blades, and its data repository runs on an HP 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) networked with an HP 8/80 SAN switch. ICT's updated infrastructure saw decreased processing time for complex data, from 12 hours to one, allowing for faster reporting of animal disease studies to the Ministry of Health. With a new simplified administration, ICT is saving up to 10 man-hours per month, allowing resources to be redirected to strategic projects to enhance public health services.

Winner:
Kenya Women Finance Trust Deposit Taking Microfinance Limited (KWFT DTM)—Serving 600,000 clients, of which 80 percent are located in remote rural areas of Kenya, KWFT DTM selected HP Superdome 2 and HP Integrity BL890c i2 servers to create a highly available data center and reduce business processing time from 12 hours to under four hours. KWFT DTM also increased uptime from 82 percent to 99 percent,⁽¹⁾ speeding the loan process to organizations that promote the use of clean energy, including solar lanterns for domestic and commercial purposes, electricity, and the purchase of gas cylinders and use of bio gas. The upgraded infrastructure allows KWFT DTM to concentrate more on growing the business by reducing time spent on fixing system errors and cutting costs incurred in power and maintenance functions.

¹Based on internal client data.

Data Center Modernization

Winner:
FIS-ASP—A German SAP application hosting and outsourcing firm leveraged HP CloudSystem Matrix with Cloud Service Automation on HP Integrity, as well as HP Integrity blade servers with Intel Itanium processors and HP-UX 11i v3 with HP 3PAR Storage, to automate installations for SAP customers in one day, ⁽¹⁾ which previously took a month. The shortened installation timeframe allows FIS-ASP to now address new markets with smaller SAP installations. They also gained a huge boost in responsiveness, broadening markets and clients.

Finalists:
Cerner Corporation—A US-based provider of healthcare solutions modernized its own data center for application hosting services with a full spectrum of HP blade server configurations—achieving 2x performance gains where older hardware was replaced.

MøllerGruppen—A Norway-based company in automobile retailing, real estate and finance, migrated to HP Integrity servers, achieving more stability than their previous mainframe and reduced operational costs—with little disruption to the business.

Honorable Mentions:
RTT—A South Africa provider of logistics services to clients that need highly-specialized, supply chain solutions, achieved 200% greater transactional performance and 35% gain in cost efficiencies with HP DL980 servers clustered with Red Hat Linux.

Tata Consultancy Services—also recognized for meeting the criteria in the Data Center Modernization category.

Best New Application

Winner:
Gravic, Inc.—An American provider of data collection, transformation and distribution solutions, used HP Integrity NonStop NS1200 servers running Gravic Shadowbase® software to establish a fault-tolerant architecture for a banking customer located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. With an active/active data replication solution in place, critical banking applications remain active and reachable even in the event of natural disasters. Gravic's HP and Intel based infrastructure allows the bank to avoid application downtime, both for planned and unplanned outages, as well as dramatically improves failover time.

Finalists:
FERNBACH—A specialist in finance and risk for the banking industry, this German company launched their FERNBACH FlexFinance® Liquidity Risk Appliances deployed on HP-UX Integrity servers and HP ProLiant servers—reducing time to load and aggregate high volumes of data.

SAP AG—A German-based provider of enterprise software delivered the SAP BusinessWarehouse with the HP AppSystem for SAP HANA for a customer that needed access to data from any device--achieving 1000x faster reporting, 60% faster data loads, and 2-second latency for real-time replication.

Honorable Mention:
Temenos—A Swiss provider of core-banking software solutions in 125 countries, their new T24R12 product achieved dramatically improved performance running on the Intel Itanium 9500 series.