The German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Maritime Research and Embraer, adopters of a cutting-edge, long-term archiving system, have been given the 21st Century Achievement Award presented by the Computerworld Honors Program that recognizes individuals and organizations that use information technology to benefit society.
With a size of more than 1.2 terabytes, the PANGAEA archiving system at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Maritime Research is among the largest knowledge bases for many geo-scientific disciplines.
Accessed by researchers across the globe, the PANGAEA system uses the Sybase IQ analytics server to store the more than 1.7 billion data points that are used to understand the overall “earth system” using advanced geo-scientific methods.
To date, the system has fueled more than 130 research projects around the world.
Sybase, the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, partnered with PANGAEA to create the archiving system.
Embraer, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, uses Sybase iAnywhere’s SQL Anywhere as its in-flight test engineering database manager.
This solution provides a powerful foundation upon which Embraer conducts hundreds of tests on new aircraft, testing thousands of parameters such as altitude, speed and temperature that are then analyzed to ensure that they meet demanding certification requirements.
Local firm Stradcom Corp., the IT firm behind the successful computerization of the Land Transportation Office, was also recognized as one the 2008 Honors Laureates during the event.
Cezar Quiambao, CEO and president of Stradcom, accepted the award.
In 2006, Globe Telecom was also given the same award for Autoload MAX under the Business and Related Services category.
“Both Stradcom and Globe Telecom are big Sybase users and were in fact nominated by Sybase,” said Nicolo Hallare, business development director of Sybase Philippines.