I just am amazed and inspired by the important and forward-looking things our customers are doing with Integrity and Integrity NonStop servers. As I mentioned in a previous blog, last month I was at the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards ceremony in San Francisco.  The ISA is a global community of hardware, operating system and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium®-based solutions.  For this ISA Innovation Award, customers from around the globe submitted entries which demonstrated their ground-breaking use of their Itanium-based solutions.

These customers are not "just" running applications inside the 4 walls of a data center. Some are using our systems to monitor a patient's heart through a wireless network, to ensure that blood transfusions are available when a patient arrives in critical condition, or to manage entire stock market systems.  Ensuring system availability for these types of solutions can be the difference between millions of dollars retained or lost or even between life and death.

Please take a look at the highlights video from the event here:

and let me know what you think.

In the next several posts, I’ll feature some of the contest winners we interviewed and talk more about their tremendous innovations using HP Integrity servers.

Lorraine