As a Founding Sponsor of the Itanium® Solutions Alliance, Fujitsu has been in a position to forge valuable partnerships with many Itanium solution vendors. As noted on the Alliance website, “the Itanium Solutions Alliance is a global community of hardware, operating system and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium 2-based solutions. Formed in September 2005, the Alliance is comprised of some of the most influential companies in the computing industry with a shared strategic commitment to deliver enterprise and technical computing solutions based on Intel® Itanium® 2 architecture. 

“The mission of the Itanium Solutions Alliance is to align the efforts of all member companies to increase the number of available Itanium 2-based solutions while increasing awareness for Itanium 2-based platforms for mission-critical application environments. The Alliance has established a suite of enabling programs chartered to accelerate software availability for Itanium 2-based enterprise and technical computing platforms. As the Alliance matures, additional programs will be added based on this underlying organizational mission.” 

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Alliance, or if you are just interested in reading more about the group, go to their website here.