With close to 3.000 attendees each year, JavaPolis is Europe's ultimate source for technical insight, information, networking and inspiration for software developers, web developers, architects, system administrators and IT managers who innovate using Java technology.

As a co-founder of OW2 Consortium, the leading Open Source middleware consortium today and a Premier Partner of JavaPolis, Bull will present its middleware solutions and services at OW2 booth, and unveil key innovations in Business Process Management software (Orchestra BPEL orchestration engine and Bonita workflow software) and J2EE application server (JOnAS 5: a new generation application server technology).

Find out more about the event >>

Each month Bull organizes free entry interactive Web seminars on hot IT topics.
These Webcasts are now up and available free of charge 24/24h on Bull’s Internet site.
You can listen and watch selected presentations made by Bull experts, at any instant, and without even having to leave your desk. Nine Webcasts are already available, and the list has yet to be completed.
Some examples of our seminar themes are as follows:

• From consolidation to virtualization: best practices


• Key technologies to ensure service continuity


• Successful extended enterprise storage networks: keys to success

Watch the webcasts >>

Faithful to its aim to foster the development and use of Open Source Software (OSS) to help industries in the global race for growth, on 16 and 17 January 2008 the international QualiPSo consortium is organizing its first international conference: “Fostering trust and quality of Open Source software systems”.

Organized in Rome, under the patronage of the European Commission, the QualiPSo 2008 conference will bring together international authorities and experts on OSS trends, reveal the first results of research carried out by the QualiPSo consortium, and be a forum for debate about the drivers for encouraging trust in OSS. It will approach Open Source from three complementary angles: political, economical and technological, covering:

* Legal issues in Open Source
* Trustworthiness of OSS products and processes
* Business models and strategies in OSS
* Interoperability in the area of Open Source
* Networks of OSS Competence Centers
* Next-generation software forges

“More than ever, major industry and government players today consider Open Source as part of their strategic IT sourcing portfolio,” declared Stefano De Panfilis, Chairman of the QualiPSo consortium. “Nevertheless, there is still some reluctance about widespread adoption of OSS, mainly due to lack of confidence. The ‘grey areas‘ of OSS that cause major concerns to industry are mainly focused on legal and quality aspects, and business issues. A first in the industry, this two-day conference will focus on the solutions to these challenges.”

Founded by a heavyweight group of ICT industry players including Bull, SMEs, governments and academic institutions across Europe, Brazil and China, QualiPSo is an international consortium that aims to help industries and governments define and implement the technologies, processes and policies that facilitate the development and use of Open Source Software components with the same level of trust traditionally offered by proprietary software.

The conference will enable IT executives, public sector bodies, policy makers, software project managers, IT architects and OSS community members to assess the opportunities for adopting OSS as part of IT strategies; reach out to professionals involved in OSS; and share experiences about OSS. It will also enable attendees to get involved in the definition of next-generation tools and process addressing trust factors in OSS. Last but not least, it will announce the creation and launch of OSS Competence Centers designed to help industry adopt OSS worldwide.

More information and registration >>

Host to more than 10,000 visitors, the "Linux and Open Source Solutions" exhibition is a major event dedicated to the world of Linux® and Open Source software and applications.

With the European leader in Open Source Software services and its experts, discover the revolution of open Information Systems, through a number of conferences:

On January 29

• Service quality management with Open Source: the maturity of the solutions at the light of ITIL and CMMI approaches - Ahcene Latreche

• NovaForge: a development industrialization platform based on open source components - Guillaume Forestier


• The Process Virtual Machine: a revolutionary technology for BPM - Miguel Valdes Faura (Bull) & Tom Bayens (JBoss Red Hat)


• eXo WebOS portal and content management with Java - Rodrigue Le Gall


• JONAS 5: a new generation application server - François Exertier


• EJB3 easy clustering with JOnAS and Easybeans - Benoit Pelletier.


• JASMINe 1.0: facilitate administration of JOnAS Java EE clusters and SOA platforms - Benoit Pelletier (Bull) and Laurent Ruaud (Serli).

For more information and conference registration >>
Bull Open Source solutions >>

As key players in enterprise transformation, these days IT Departments have to meet many challenges: from being responsive in the face of change to providing extra capacity to respond to ever more demanding service requirements. At a time when business and computing strategies are ever more and more closely linked, how can we best ensure that information systems are flexibile? What can we use to help accelerate the implementation of new applications and control the ROI they deliver? How can we cope with peaks in business activity and balance the demand for resources? How can we manage the operational complexity that inevitably results from an explosion in the amount of data needing to be processed, not to mention the multiplicity of technologies?

Outsourcing, a recognised approach to IT governance, brings real answers to these problems, because it involves both financial and operational optimization.

Bull has put flexibility at the heart of its outsourcing services, and will be concentrating on this theme at the IDC outsourcing conference to be held on 20 February, in Paris.

To illustrate the kind of flexibility outsourcing can offer, Bull has invited two of its customers to participate:

• The French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Employment (DGEFP) has chosen to outsource the implementation and hosting of Parcours3*, a multi-player business-critical Web solution. With upwards, a highly complex financial and legal problem to be solved. Outsourcing has proved to be a driver for flexibility, thanks in particular to the financial, legal and contractual arrangements put in place.


• The need to continually keep developing its information system, make the most of a very varied range of existing applications, and optimise its costs has led Eramet, the rapidly-growing French mining and metallurgy group, to outsource the running of its servers. One of the key drivers for optimization has been the establishment of ‘working units’, providing greater transparency in relation to prime contractors and a more detailed cost estimations. As a result, outsourcing is proving to be an engine for progress.

For more information and registration (French only) >>
interview with P. Pauty, Director of the Bull Data Center >>

Discover how you can regain control of your infrastructure

It is no secret that having your data spread across several database servers dramatically increases the cost of storing and administering your data, but more importantly it also restricts flexibility and limits cost effective high availability.

Join us and learn how database consolidation can help you:

• Optimize computing power and storage resources - get more from less


• Increase performance and reduce data processing response time -
  achieve a faster response


• Facilitate the implemention of 24/7 availability and disaster recovery solutions - secure your data


• Achieve better flexibility to cope with business requirement changes - simplify change


• Provide enhanced data sharing and better visibility for effective business intelligence - put your data to work for your business.

More information >>
Learn more about DataScale >>

VMworld Europe will be the largest European virtualization industry event and is set to take place on February 26-28 at the ‘Palais des Festivals’ in Cannes, France.
Join an expected 4,000 IT professionals and executives, technology providers, and industry experts from around Europe.

Bull’s virtualization solutions have been recently reinforced when it launched the 4th initiative of its 7i program dedicated to the ‘Bio Data Center’. The Bio Data Center combines products and services to help control data centers’ complexity and increase flexibility, while reducing their carbon footprint.

As VMware partner, Bull will be present at VMworld Europe 2008. Meet our experts on Bull’s booth (#64).

More information about VMworld >>
Learn more about the Bio Data Center >>

CeBIT is the biggest trade show for the ICT sector worldwide, with nearly half a million visitors in 2007, including 8000 journalists from across the globe reporting on the cutting-edge developments and the future of the digital world.

Evidian, a Bull subsidiary, will be present on the Microsoft booth in the hall dedicated to security. Discover our identity and access management solution, Evidian IAM Suite, and talk to our specialists.

More about CeBIT 2008 >>
More about Evidian's offer >>

Discover how you can regain control of your infrastructure

It is no secret that having your data spread across several database servers dramatically increases the cost of storing and administering your data, but more importantly it also restricts flexibility and limits cost effective high availability.

Join us and learn how database consolidation can help you:

• Optimize computing power and storage resources - get more from less


• Increase performance and reduce data processing response time -
  achieve a faster response


• Facilitate the implemention of 24/7 availability and disaster recovery solutions - secure your data


• Achieve better flexibility to cope with business requirement changes - simplify change


• Provide enhanced data sharing and better visibility for effective business intelligence - put your data to work for your business.

More information & registration >>
Learn more about DataScale >>

Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture infrastructure: solutions, learning points and best practices

Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and Business Process Management (BPM) are at the heart of tomorrow’s great challenges. Bull, as a major IT player in several large Open Source communities, and one of Europe’s leading systems integrators, will be presenting a wide range of the Open Source solutions that respond most effectively to these issues.

Conferences being planned include:

• Jean-Eric Minier, Director of Bull Switzerland: Deploying a Service-Oriented Architecture: Open Source solutions and best practices


• Goulven Lejeune, SOA architect, Bull: Open Source at the heart of Business Process Management technologies (BPM and workflow): the range of available solutions


• Goulven Lejeune, SOA architect, Bull: Accelerating business application developments with NovaForge, the Bull’s open software development factory


• Benjamin Mestralet, CEO eXo Platform: A new generation Open Source platform for portals, content management (ECM) and collaborative working: eXo 2.0

More information about OpenExpo >>
Discover "The Open Source revolution" white paper >>

Discover how you can regain control of your infrastructure

It is no secret that having your data spread across several database servers dramatically increases the cost of storing and administering your data, but more importantly it also restricts flexibility and limits cost effective high availability.

Join us and learn how database consolidation can help you:

• Optimize computing power and storage resources - get more from less


• Increase performance and reduce data processing response time -
  achieve a faster response


• Facilitate the implemention of 24/7 availability and disaster recovery solutions - secure your data


• Achieve better flexibility to cope with business requirement changes - simplify change


• Provide enhanced data sharing and better visibility for effective business intelligence - put your data to work for your business.

More information & registration >>
DataScale: Optimizarea infrastructurilor de baze de date Oracle >>

The ‘Journée Sécurité 2008’ is an invitation-only event organized by 01 Informatique, a major French IT magazine. It will be attended by MIS executives and confirmed security professionals.

Six event sponsors, including Evidian and Thales, will present their vision of information security. This prestige event will be held in Paris (Hyatt, place Vendôme). Through a series of interviews and informal meetings, Evidian will promote the technological and functional advance of its offer.

For more information contact Groupe Tests >>

Discover how you can regain control of your infrastructure

It is no secret that having your data spread across several database servers dramatically increases the cost of storing and administering your data, but more importantly it also restricts flexibility and limits cost effective high availability.

With DataScale from Bull, your move towards a consolidated database will benefit from Bull's expertise; offering a pre-validated, end-to-end, ready to deploy and cost effective database infrastructure solution to improve your IT systems efficiency, increase your availability and enhance your return on investment.

Register >>
Program (information in Slovenian) >>

To mark the launch of the collaborative portal software suite eXo enterprise WebOS, eXo and Bull are jointly organizing a seminar focused on WebOS technologies and the future of Web applications. Case studies from French television channel M6 and the Belgian Ministry of Finance will showcase WebOS technology at work, with the involvement of Bull, a contributor to eXo technology and systems integrator for the Belgian Ministry. The seminar will conclude with an exceptional panel discussion on ‘Web applications of the future’, with the Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Google all taking part.

For more information and registration >>
More information >>

For hundreds of Identity Management professionals, the European Identity Conference provides an unbiased source of new insights and ideas on a broad scale. They can attend business-oriented briefings, hands-on like workshop sessions, and a great number of best practices presentations from real world deployments. With its community-like social networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, the European Identity Conference has become an annual must-attend event.

Evidian will be showing its identity and access management solutions, together with its partners Microsoft and Omada.

More information >>
More about Evidian's Identity & Access Management offer >>

Bull presents Midoffice solution

22-24 April are important dates for the Dutch central and local governments: during a 3-day trade show, all ICT vendors and integrators will be present to show their solutions.

Over the past years, Bull Nederland N.V. has acquired an important position in the local government market. Bull is one of the most important suppliers of so-called Midoffice infrastructures, which are the driving technology behind the modernization of many administrative procedures, including requests for documents like passports and driver’s licenses, but also building permits and complaints. These services are linked to many different proprietary applications. On average, a small municipality hosts 40 to 50 various applications, each with their own interface, and usually focused on internal use.

Using the power of Open Source
In order to liberate IT organizations from the dependency of these proprietary systems, Bull has designed a open architecture that allows systems to interoperate, exchange data, and deliver high-class service to the end users of local governments: every Dutch citizen.

Bull’s solution makes it possible to make these applications available through an independent layer, based on Open Source technology and server virtualisation. Local governments can achieve unparalleled availability of their most critical services thanks to the blueprint Bull has worked out.

More than 3,000 visitors are expected to visit this yearly trade show. Apart from the Midoffice architecture, Bull Nederland N.V. will also present its new solutions for High Availability and integrated data protection.

More about Overheid & ICT >>

Rapid response to new business initiatives, increased technical complexity and heightened time and budget constraints continue to place unprecedented pressure on organizations. IT executives must stay focused on the urgent, immediate needs of running their operations while looking to the future, where new and emerging technologies will pose a different set of opportunities and challenges.

These are just some of the issues that will be addressed at Bull’s Summit 2008 Conference, scheduled for May 6-9, at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.

Attendees at Summit 2008 will hear from IT Industry speakers, Bull Customers from both the U.S. and Europe, and Bull Partners who will share their views on how IT organizations must adapt to address changing business and public sector needs and the evolution of information technology. Bull customers, prospects, distributors, and partners from the United States and International locations will hear about Bull’s future strategies and how the company is positioned to meet the changing needs of its customers.

Summit 2008 highlights

• Bull’s senior management will review Bull’s progress and growth initiatives, and how recent strategic acquisitions will benefit customers.


• Other presentations will address:
  - How to optimize your Data Center, making it simpler and less costly to operate.
  - How to manage heterogeneous IT environments and turn adversity into an advantage.
  - What the future holds for Bull Research & Development programs.
  - A look at the leading platform for Open Source computing…Now with integrated virtualization.
  - A look at Microsoft’s newest Windows Server and SQL Server products.
  - How Bull is providing innovation in the area of Collaborative Information Appliances.
  - Mobility and solutions for mobile users.
  - Green IT: how to improve Data Center power and efficiency.
  - How Bull is making High Performance Computing (HPC) available to new industries.

More information >>

With OW2 consortium, Bull will participate to JavaOne and demonstrate its Open Source middleware contributions and solutions, notably its solutions for Business Process Management and workflow Orchestra and Bonita, the JOnAS application server and the EasyBeans EJB container. Bull will also present its latest join developments with JBoss Red Hat and OW2, notably the "Process Virtual Machine", a revolutionarytechnology for BPM, that will be announced at this event.

More information on Bull Open Source contributions >>
More information on JavaOne >>

With its commitment to Open Source and involvement in the international OW2 consortium, as well as various other European projects, Bull is the European integrator of choice for deploying Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) in situations where business process management systems (BPMS) are ideally suited to the task of automating both business processes and technical operations, providing new architectural models for customers seeking economic and organizational efficiency.

Bull will be present at the LinuxDays in Geneva in the OW2 village, and will be taking part in the following seminars:

Wednesday 21 May

• 12:00pm , room B : Bull NovaForge™, the collaborative tool for software development by Emmanuel Rias


• 15:00, room B : INRIA A collaborative environment for a competitive approach to innovation , by Luc Laurens


• 16:00, room B : eXo Platform Virtualizing the workstation via the Web – it can be done! by Benjamin Mestrallet

Thursday 22 May

• 12:00pm, room E: Bull eXo Web OS and Bonita Workflow: managing agile content , by Rodrigue Le Gall


• 14:00pm, room E : Bull JOnAS 5 the new-generation applications server , by François Exertier


• 14:00pm, room C: OW2 A business ecosystem using Open Source: the experience of the OW2 consortium , by Cédric Thomas


• 15:00pm, room E: FT Orange Clif & Salomé-tmf: Open Source tools, extendable via plug-ins, for controlling the qualification of software systems , by Thomas Escalle


• 16:00pm, room B : Bull NovaBonita & NovaOrchestra: New-generation Open Source for Business Process Management (BPM), by Pierre Vigneras

Bull’s Open Source offerings >>
More about LinuxDays 2008 >>

Evidian will be present at the 2nd annual Identity and Access Management (IAM 2008) meeting in Madrid, organized by IIR España. This event is a major meeting point of Spanish IAM professionals. Information security managers will meet with solution and service providers and discuss the real-life implementation of single sign-on, identity federation and user provisioning. The practical, organizational aspects of IAM projects are a major theme of this conference.

For more information >>

To ensure compliance with new directives and regulations, and to guarantee the success of wide-ranging initiatives, local authorities are under considerable pressure to transform and modernize themselves. Even though most of them now have succeeded in implementing innovative approaches, when it comes to transforming business processes and putting in place cross-departmental management control systems, a new kind of governance is required, and this inevitably results in the need for an interoperable and unified information system.

- How can local authorities ensure that their information systems are drivers for modernization?
- How can business processes be transformed while continuing to guarantee the required levels of openness and security?
- How can performance be measured and projects managed using systems that are often designed in ‘silos’?

These are just some of the subjects that will be expanded and analyzed during this morning session, chaired by Jean-Pierre Barbéris, General Manager of Bull France, and also involving Jean-Marie Leclerc, General Manager of the CTI (Information Technology Center) at the Republic and State of Geneva, KPMG as well as Chief Executives, Senior Directors and IT Directors/CIOs from a number of local authorities.

Find out more & register (french only) >>

The HIT 2008 Congress – which takes place from 27-30 May at Paris/Expo Porte de Versailles Hall 1 – is an essential business forum for healthcare professionals, users and companies involved in building high-quality, consistent healthcare information systems.

Bull is heavily involved in this event, and will use the HIT exhibition to present its full range of solutions dedicated to the health sector and the main projects in the French government’s 2012 Hospital Plan initiative, including implementation of:

• The single electronic patient record system – along with its partner, Medasys, publisher of the DxCare® clinical software


• Comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for medical/financial control


• Security solutions, against the backdrop of the government’s Confidentiality Decree.


Bull is capitalizing in particular on the excellent coverage of its regional network in France – which is already well established in the hospital sector – as well as on its Services Centers, to offer a complete value chain of services and products. These include making available the requisite technical architecture, consultancy, implementation services, scoping, systems integration, hosting, and change management support.
You’re welcome to come and meet our experts and partners on the Bull stand.


More about HIT Expo >>

The launch of this major event, initiated by the French government, is due to take place this year on 29 May at the Paris-Dauphine University . Its objective is to debate the current trends and the role of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in economic growth and competitiveness, and to provide a forum for dialog about government policies in the area of ICT. Agenda
At 9.00 am the French Prime Minister François Fillon , along with Viviane Redding , the European Commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media, will open the seminar, which will be followed by seven round-table discussions, each introduced by a government Minister.

• 9.40-10.40 am : The challenges of high-speed broadband --> Luc Chatel , Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs


• 11.00-12.00 am : The challenges of digitally-based culture and leisure activities --> Christine Albanel , Minister of Culture and Communications


• 12.00-13.00 pm : New Information and Communications Technologies, a driver for growth and competitiveness --> Eric Besson , State Secretary for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy


• 14.20-15.20 pm : Internet 3.0, the key challenges? --> Valérie Pécresse , Minister for Higher Education and Research


• 15.20-16.20 pm : ICT as a driver for the international opening up of the Mediterranean economy --> Ahmed Chami , Minister of Industry, Commerce and New Technologies for the Kingdom of Morocco


• 16.40-17.40 pm : ICT and modernization of the public sector: e-government --> André Santini, Minister with responsibility for the Civil Service


• 17.40-18.40 pm : ICT and sustainable development --> Jean-Louis Borloo , Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Country Planning

• Diane Louise Lassonde , Co ordinator, Mediterranean forum on the knowledge society


• Jean-Eric Aubert , Director of the World Bank’s Knowledge for development program


• Jean-Louis Guigou , Director of the think-tank IPEMed – the Mediterranean Institute for Economic Forward Planning


• El Hadj Klai , Tunisian Minister of Communication Technologies


• Alain Madelin , President of the Global Digital Solidarity Fund


• Christophe Nuttall , Director of the PPP and PNUD (United Nations) programs


• Yves Gautier , Chairman and CEO of Tunisania operator.

For further information and registration >>

Ensuring that business activities take environmental concerns into account is much more than just a passing trend. It’s more than just an ethical issue: keeping an organization’s carbon footprint under control is becoming an urgent necessity, particularly given current and forthcoming regulatory constraints and, above all, inexorably rising energy costs.

And this affects the IT sector at least as much as any other. We enter the age where businesses are measured by the tons of CO2 they generate, and it is still true that IT hardware is consuming more and more electricity. The growing number of Data Centers, the development of technologies with a high energy consumption, and the introduction of distributed IT architectures are all accompanied by a rising demand for energy. So the IT Department is effectively responsible for generating some substantial increases in costs, to the point where energy management is now among the key operational factors that need to be kept under control.

Similarly, although it may initially have been quite a ‘conceptual’ notion, the concept of ‘Green Computing’ or ‘Green IT’ is no longer just a marketing ploy used to differentiate hardware and software solution providers, but a fully-fledged and deeply serious approach to doing business that has to guide IT Departments.

This IDC conference aims to set out the current situation in full, and identify the issues we have to face up to now, along with the solutions that are available to you to resolve the balancing act of achieving economic, technological AND environmentally-friendly performance.

Did you know that in the space of just five years, the cost of the energy to run their computer systems will represent 60% of overall company energy spending?

Bull, a Platinum sponsor
Didier Lamouche, Bull Chairman and CEO, will deliver a keynote address entitled: ‘In the face of the growing demands generated by Green IT, a new vision: the Bio Data Center™’, at 12.25pm, during the session dedicated to the future prospects for Green IT.

In addition, Bruno Pinna, Bull Corporate Marketing Director, will lead a seminar on how to deploy a Bio Data Center:
- Energy efficiency and virtualization
- Engineering the Data Center
- Tools for managing complexity
- Control.

Find out more and register (using the promotional code 'GRINV') >>

On June 2nd, Bull and the CUBE (Bull European User Group) are holding the 6th edition of the CUBE Unix Forum at Paris Bercy Pullman. This day, led by Bull Escala® experts, will focus on the latest Escala servers announcements with demonstrations that will outline the benefits of these new technologies, in particular those of the new generation of Escala EL blade and Escala PL rack servers

Solutions recommended by Bull to benefit from the advantages of virtualization will also be presented with a demonstration of the Live Partition Mobility, Workload Partitions. Also Bull’s advanced solutions to optimize the quality of IT service will be highlighted; they include Bull ARF (Application Roll-over Facility) that ensures service continuity and Bull Performance Report that optimizes the allocation of computing resources and enables them to be managed proactively, while taking into account virtualized environments

* AIX, AIX 6, POWER, POWER6 are International Business Machines Corporation trademarks.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

Escala servers >>

‘Data management as a driver for enterprise performance’.

The 24th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bull European user will take place on 5-6 June at the Holiday Inn Resort, Port St Laurent, St Laurent du Var, Nice. This year’s theme is: “Data management as a driver for enterprise performance”.
The meeting will be chaired by Germain Zimmerlé, and a keynote address from Bull Chairman and CEO Didier Lamouche will round off the first day.

Previsional program
Thursday 5 June, following the standard CUBE administrative preliminaries:

• 15.00pm Jacques Pantin, CEO of DICTAO and IT security expert: Enterprise competitiveness and data management performance
  
• 15.45pm Jean-Pierre Barbéris, General Manager, Bull France: The intelligence of data
  
• 16.30pm Break
  
• 16.45pm Jacques Marzin, Director of AIFE (the State financial IT agency), French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Employment: Chorus: the French government’s new financial management system
  17.30pm Philippe Chambon, Director of Bull’s Chorus program: Chorus: a data flow architecture secured by Bull
  
• 18.15pm Didier Lamouche, CEO, Bull: Ambitions and strategies for growth
  
• 20.00pm Dinner
  
  Friday 6 June
  
  • 9.00am Benoît Hallez, Director, Bull StoreWay storage solutions BU:
    Information Systems Challenges: controlling costs and the explosion of data
    
  • 10.00am Philippe Reynier, StoreWay consultant, Bull:
    Legal archiving regulation, and the durability of archived data
    
  • 11.00am Break
    
  • 11.15am RATP: Customer case study
    
  • 11.45am Round table discussion, led by Jean-Jacques Maleval, Editor of Storage Newsletter
    
  • 12.15pm Philippe Miltin, Vice President Bull Products and Systems: Creating value and vision
    
  • 12.45pm Germain Zimmerlé, President of CUBE: Concluding message
    
  • 13.00pm Lunch
  
  
  This 24th AGM will provide yet another opportunity for dialogue between CUBE members and Bull senior management on themes related to the accelerated evolution of information systems and solutions offered by Bull.

  More information >>
  

Don’t live in fear for your data: best practice in data storage

Every year the amount of data to be managed is growing by 60%, ten times the rate at which IT budgets are increasing! In parallel, the sheer complexity of data, demands for a higher quality of service and regulatory constraints are expanding. IT Departments face a huge challenge: how do they revolutionize their approach to data storage? What kinds of strategies are needed? How do they reduce risks? What best practices can they follow? And how can they implement the latest technologies: deduplication, Back-up to Disk (B2D), Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs), Continuous Data Protection (CDP)...? Now you can exclusively benchmark your organization against your peers and evaluate successful methodologies, with the first pan-European research study – carried out by IDC and Bull – on data storage priorities and best practices. With the help of Bull and its partners, you can also discover more about forthcoming technological innovations and hear about real-life experiences.

Program
IDC – Results of the IDC/Bull research into best practice in data storage in Europe: exclusive feedback and experiences from 100 organizations.
Bull and its partners – Data Storage: successful strategies for archiving and protecting your data, and guaranteeing operational continuity.
Case studies from IT Directors/CIOs – Real-life experiences
In partnership with Brocade, EMC, NetApp, Overland and Sun/StorageTek.

Registration
Limited number of places – Register now to receive your invitation to the Roadshow and hear the results of the IDC/Bull research:
FRANKFURT - 10 April 2008
MADRID - 24 April 2008
PARIS - 27 May 2008
AMSTERDAM - June 2008
LONDON - June 2008

Web seminars: Apr 17 and May 29

Register now >>

ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) is Europe’s premier HPC event featuring an ideal mix of high-level research presentations, talks on business and industry topics, a huge number of exhibitors, various industry events and scientific sessions as well as after-hour social events. A rather special ISC’08 highlight will be the opening keynote address by Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center. Professor Matsuoka will communicate to us why he believes that “Everybody Supercomputes in the Next Generation Cyber-Science Infrastructure”.

The eagerly-awaited TOP500 list will also be announced.

Meet our experts at Bull booth and see our latest HPC solutions at work on a Bull NovaScale® cluster.

More information on ISC´08 >>
Learn more about Bull HPC solutions >>

Evidian is organizing a road show visiting eight cities in France and Belgium (in French). Security experts will explain how identity and access management is used every day in enterprises. Three real-life customer cases will be presented:

• Healthcare: the lifecycle of a doctor, from arrival to departure from a hospital
• Banking: deploying strong authentication and auditing accesses
• Manufacturing: securing the laptops of mobile users.

Register (French only) >>

Evidian is a Platinum Sponsor of the Gartner IAM Summit 2008, a major event dedicated to identity and access management. Whoever users are—workforce, partners, customers—managing their digital identities and access to IT resources is critical.

During the Summit, Evidian will deliver a conference on "IAM: from process automation to reconciled role-based policies" on June 23rd, from 15:15 to15:45. Today, identity management is mainly used to automate account administration. But how can these technical tools serve the business policies that security officers and auditors define at the corporate level? How can IAM projects shift from account management to policy enforcement to ensure compliance and effectiveness?

The Evidian conference will explain why access management should be associated with identity management to help reconcile IT usage with role-based policies. We will be glad to see you at this conference as well as on our booth.

More information >>
Evidian IAM Suite >>