US Foodservice www.foodservice.com
Application Virtualization Initiative
Project Lead: Dorian Monroe, Senior Technical Specialist
Project Description: To alleviate enterprisewide challenges related to application management, US Foodservice embarked on an application virtualization initiative centered on Altiris Software Virtualization Solution. When complete, US Foodservice will have virtualized 80 applications across 90 distribution centers serving more than 27,000 employees. The project will save US Foodservice an estimated $1 million annually in reimaging costs and will reduce direct support costs by as much as 40 percent.
Industry: Distribution

USinternetworking www.usi.com
SOA-Based Provisioning and Compliance Initiative
Project Lead: Michael Rulf, Vice President of Advanced Engineering
Project Description: USi embarked on an SOA initiative to streamline its software infrastructure in an effort to enhance regulatory compliance, support greater reuse, and bolster its workflow capabilities. Implementing Oracle SOA Suite, USi integrated numerous applications, including Ariba, Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Oasis, and several customize in-house tools.
Industry: Services

Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute www.ari.vt.edu
HPC Cluster for Cancer Research
Project Lead: Dr. Saifur Rahman, Director of ARI
Project Description: Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Institute constructed a high-performance computing cluster for cancer research. The 16-node cluster is based on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and runs on HP ProLiant DL 145 machines. Parallelized apps written in MATLAB tap vast quantities of data acquired from biologists and physicians to perform molecular profiling of cancer patients.
Industry: Health Care

The Well Project www.thewellproject.org
International AIDS Information Portal for Women
Project Lead: Richard G. Averitt, Chief Operating Officer
Project Description: The Well Project, an organization founded to curtail the spread of HIV/AIDS among women, created an International Information Portal to provide treatment information for AIDS patients and caregivers in multiple languages, beginning with English and Spanish. The portal was built on EMC Documentum content management and collaboration software, BEA WebLogic, and Lionbridge Technologies Freeway software for language management and translation. The infrastructure supports concurrent information and real-time updates across portals. Additional portals catering to speakers of languages other than English and Spanish are in the offing.
Industry: Health Care