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

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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