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2011 Nomination List (Online)

  • Online Category Nominee (1)

    Personalized Special Edition Newspaper – A Fusion of Web Technologies and Newspaper-editing Know-how IWATTE Team （Iwate Nippo Co., Ltd. ）

    選考理由

    "IWATTE" (Japanese word for celebrate), a word play of the prefecture name Iwate, is a service to issue special-edition newspapers for a personal occasion of celebration, such as an anniversary. The team earned the nomination for their pursuit of efficiency that enabled the service at a reasonable price, and their success in value creation by taking the challenge of monetization head-on, despite that it is highly difficult to create real value using the web in the genre of social networking.

    Reference URL
    http://iwatte.jp/

  • Online Category Nominee (2)

    Development of Micro TCP/IP Stack Ubiquitous Network Framework Development Team （Ubiquitous Corporation）

    選考理由

    This TCP/IP stack (Ubiquitous Network Framework) adopted by Nintendo DS is extremely small with a capacity of 50KB including SSL. It enabled allocation of a larger part of the limited Nintendo DS memory resources to games. The generic nature of the development was also rated highly, as it has been widely adopted in not only DS but also home appliances all over the world.

    Reference URL
    http://www.ubiquitous.co.jp/products/platform/networkframework/

  • Online Category Nominee (3)

    Provision of an Advanced and Highly Reliable Cloud Environment to the Japanese Market
    Amazon EC2/S3 （Amazon Web Services LLC）

    選考理由

    Leveraging on the technologies to virtually interlink hardware, software, and networks, the nominee realized a cloud service that provides, on an on-demand basis, the CPU capacity, storage, networks, etc. required for development and online provision of games, with guaranteed high performance, reliability, and scalability. While implementing the global deployment of the service, the nominee opened its Tokyo Data Center in March 2011 and drastically lowered the barrier to cloud utilization in Japan.

    Reference URL
    http://aws.amazon.com/jp/

  • Online Category Nominee (4)

    Development and Practical Application of Power-saving Technologies in a Data Center Ishikari Data Center （Sakura Internet Inc.）

    選考理由

    In today's world where energy efficiency of a data center (in terms of heat generation and reuse of waste heat) is increasingly an important issue, the nominee was highly rated for its technology to reduce power consumption (minimization of power loss at the time of AC/DC conversion by high-voltage DC power supply, and improved efficiency by using a central power supply to eliminate power supply unit on each) and a cooling system that utilizes the natural environment (cooling of servers and the data center by the outside air where possible to minimize the use of air-conditioning units). Our expectations are high for possible use of natural energy, which the nominee mentioned as one item under discussion for future implementation.

    Reference URL
    http://ishikari.sakura.ad.jp/

  • Online Category Nominee (5)

    HandlerSocket Plugin for MySQL Akira Higuchi（DeNA Co., Ltd.）

    選考理由

    The nominee implemented an idea of adding a NoSQL layer on MySOL, to utilize the maximum performance of MySQL. This is a generic method that can be implemented also in other development areas. The nominee published his source code to share the technical excellence of his idea with others and contributed to improvement of technical prowess.

    Reference URL
    https://github.com/ahiguti/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL