Bull Direct N°19, October 2007

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Reconciling performance, flexibility and sustainable development
Today we are launching our 4th initiative, focused around the up-coming generation of Data Centers. In the age of the digital economy, service continuity, data access speeds and IT security are absolute imperatives. At the same time, everyone has to be concerned about one of today’s most unavoidable concerns: environmental protection.

Read Didier Lamouche's editorial >

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EXPERT VOICE

NovaScale Intensive: mainframe-class, open, highly-available servers that are easy to maintain.
Laurent Cargemel, R&D Manager, NovaScale >>

AGENDA

Webcasts Bull >

Open Source seminar: Software development, Paris, October 18 >

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

1st European HyperWorks Technology Conference - Berlin, October 23-24 >

Bull and Ineum Social protection seminar, 23 October, Paris >

Ensuring service continuity for IT infrastructures, 25 October, Paris >

Storage Networking World, Frankfurt, 29–31 October >

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

Other Events >>

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Bull launches its ‘Bio Data Center’ approach to reconcile performance and flexibility with sustainable development.

The advent of the ‘Bio Data Center’: rediscovering the path to agility
The complexity of today’s data centers and their ability to interact with other ecosystems, even the planet itself, means they are genuinely ‘living’ systems. We’re at the dawn of a new era, the age of the ‘Bio Data Center’.
Interview with Philippe Miltin, Vice-President, Bull Products and Systems >>

Guest Contributor

“Security is key to open information systems”
Openness involves moving from a Hospital Information System, which is focused around the hospital, to a Health Information System centered on the patient.
Interview with Germain Zimmerlé, IS Director at the Strasbourg University Hospital Center, Chairman of the Bull European User Group (CUBE). >>

Hot topics
	CCRT/CEA unlocks the mysteries of the Universe.

Business cases

Bull’s HPC solution optimizes Alcan’s research capability.

In the Netherlands, Alex Beleggersbank, the on-line investment bank has chosen Bull to renew its IT infrastructure.

The State of Oklahoma chooses Bull for the IT infrastructure of their Unemployment Benefit applications.

Tesco trusts Bull to support its AIX servers.

Transdev boosts its expertise as a travel operator with geolocation.

Solutions

Bull’s hosting centers: ensuring operational continuity for customers.
Interview with Philippe Pauty, Director of the Bull Data Center, Trélazé, France.

Bull launches ‘Data Warehouse Parallel Server’.

Bull DataScale optimizes the consolidation of Oracle databases in Linux environments.

At a glance
	Bull Evidian Positioned in Gartner’ s Leader Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign Sign-On.

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