Bull Direct N°18, September 2007

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2007

Achieving our objectives
Rising revenues during the first half of 2007 have confirmed that the action plan Bull set in motion during 2006 were the right one. We have indeed seen the performance of our Products division improve, and our Services business has grown at twice the current rate of the market (+13.5%). Finally, we have seen 3.2% growth in our Maintenance activities: the first increase for two years.

Read Didier Lamouche's editorial >

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EXPERT VOICE

Virtualization offers much more than just back-up cost reduction. Philippe Schreck, Bull StoreWay Product Marketing Director >>

AGENDA

Webcasts Bull >

GCOS 7 Regional days, Paris, September 20 >

Monthly Open Source seminar: BI and Open Source, Paris, September 25 >

World e-Democracy Forum - Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 3-4 October >

Gartner Data Center Summit 2007 - October 22-24, London >

Storage Networking World (SNW), Frankfurt, 29–31 October >

SuperComputing 2007, Reno (USA), 10-16 November >

Other Events >>

QUICK POLL

Environment: a priority for Bull
Should we now be preparing for the environment to become a vital and permanent issue for our industry?
Interview with Bruno Pinna, Marketing Director, Bull. >>

Guest Contributor

“Combining technical and business expertise”
As a systems integrator, Bull has been actively contributing to the implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) at EDF.
Interview with Gilles Chauveau, IT Director of EDF’s Business and Domestic Customer division. >>

Business cases

The European Commission awards a consortium with Bull a € 9.6 million IT support services contract.

Barnsley on target for 20% savings after first twelve months of joint ICT venture with Bull. ICT service improved with workforce and local skills benefits through innovative service partnership.

Nottingham City Council supports better services and reduces carbon footprint with Bull Blade server infrastructure.

To accelerate medical research, University of Ghent chooses a Bull NovaScale supercomputer.

Solutions

Performance, powerful consolidation and virtualization capabilities with the new NovaScale server designed to simplify data center management.

Open Source at the service of Bull customer support.

At a glance

Social protection: the golden rules for successful personalization and consolidation projects in public services.

Polytech’Grenoble wins the first ever Bull Open World challenge.

Hosted solution specialist Soft2You refocuses on Microsoft.