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Another ITanium Software package announced ! biz.yahoo.com Friday July 13, 8:29 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Torrent Systems, Inc. Torrent Ports Orchestrate To Intel's New Itanium Processor Integration of Orchestrate and Itanium Processor Provides a High-Performance, Scalable Platform for "Big Data" Applications CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Torrent® Systems, Inc., a leading provider of software for scalable data warehousing and business intelligence, today announced that it has ported Orchestrate(TM), the company's component-based application development and deployment framework, to Intel's Itanium(TM) Processor. Customers using Orchestrate on Intel's new Itanium-based systems will be able to automatically process and analyze high volumes of data and build scalable, high-value applications rapidly and at low cost. Corporations with the most demanding enterprise and high-performance data warehousing and business intelligence applications will benefit from integrating Orchestrate's sophisticated parallel processing technology with the Itanium Processor, the first in a family of 64-bit products from Intel. The Itanium Processor's 64-bit addressability, large cache memory and Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) technology enables breakthrough capabilities in processing terabytes of data. This integration meets end-user demand for faster, more reliable and scalable data warehousing and business intelligence applications. ``Itanium is targeted at the most demanding enterprise and high-performance computing applications and is intended to provide performance, scalability and reliability advantages at significantly lower costs,'' said Will Swope, Vice President - Intel Architecture Group. ``Customers using Orchestrate on Itanium- based systems will see improved capabilities in processing terabytes of data, increased transactions and will have even greater room for scaling up with future applications.'' ``Torrent's framework supports enterprise applications for conducting data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics. To execute those applications, companies need to be able to process their data rapidly,'' said Tom Ebling, president and CEO of Torrent. ``Itanium brings the same scalability, investment protection, and price advantage to the hardware on which Orchestrate applications run. This is a benefit for any company that needs to store, process and analyze large volumes of data.'' About Torrent Systems, Inc. Torrent, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is a leader in solutions for building, deploying and managing enterprise-scale custom applications that predict customer behavior and enhance customer profitability. Torrent's highly scalable data transformation and analytical solutions deliver the ability to perform complex analyses on unprecedented volumes of clickstream and transaction data with dramatically improved performance. As a result, companies can understand and anticipate the needs of their customers and, in turn, generate tens - even hundreds - of millions of dollars in return on investment. Torrent now provides the infrastructure for some of the world's most valuable applications at companies like Fingerhut, United Airlines, and CNET Networks. For more information about Torrent and its products, please call 888-339-4605 or visit www.torrent.com. Contact: Dan Burton Torrent Systems, Inc. 617-354-8484 x135 dburton@torrent.com SOURCE: Torrent Systems, Inc. Email this story - Most-emailed articles - Most-viewed articles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related News Categories: computers, softwa