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The Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) and Intel announced the addition of six Indian software companies - i-flex Solutions, Lifetree Convergence, Mithi Software Technologies, Nucleus Software Exports, Ramco Systems and Subex Azure - as newly enlisted members of the Alliance in India, and Intel's continued support of the platform with five new products.

The ISA is a global community of hardware, operating system and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium 2-based solutions. The ISA is a non-profit organization which provide its membership with support for enabling and marketing key solution stacks, such as infrastructure software to targeted market segments around the Intel Itanium 2 platform.

Commenting on the milestone, William Wu, Chairman -Regional Committee Itanium Solutions Alliance Asia Pacific said, “Globally, India is a software powerhouse making a profound impact on the industry, and these six companies joining the alliance are a great endorsement of the Intel Itanium 2 product as the platform of choice. With this membership addition we now have some of the strongest software companies from India as active members of the alliance. Going forward we expect this momentum to continue.”

This announcement also comes at a time when Intel Itanium 2 celebrates its fifth anniversary since the processor was first launched in June 2001. First conceived in the late 80s as a brave new move away from what were seen as the limitations of RISC-based computing, Intel has worked cooperatively with a diverse group of industry vendors to realize the full potential of Intel Itanium 2 as a platform.On this anniversary, Intel also unveiled five new products in the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series. Previously codenamed “Montecito,” the new processors are designed for the most sophisticated high-end computing platforms in the world. Dual-Core Itanium 2-based systems target areas such as business analytics, large data warehouses and HPC areas. This is increasingly important as companies continue to strive for real-time decision making based on increasingly large amounts of data. These new Dual-Core products double the performance and lower energy requirements, improving performance per watt by 2.5 times compared to existing, single-core versions. All server-maker members of the ISA will launch new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series-based products later this year.

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