June 2012

Secure Cloud services with SFR and FSN

Initiative. Bull expands its Le cloud by Bull™ offering and invests with telecoms operator SFR and FSN (the French National Fund for a Digital Society), to create a secure Cloud services provider operating at a European level that will guarantee the security, confidentiality and close local proximity of information.

NumInnov: HPC Cloud operator

Initiative. Established with FSN, NumInnov is a pan-European provider of HPC services in secure Cloud mode. Its ecosystem, which already includes some 25 businesses and ISVs, will expand the ways that computer simulation is used in industry, energy, healthcare, culture and media, and homeland security.

DIRISI modernizes its operations with Bull’s help

Defense. The only secure IT operator for the French Ministry of Defense, DIRISI (the Inter-Forces Networks, Infrastructure and Information Systems Directorate), is drawing on Bull’s IT operations expertise under a framework contract, which enables it to effectively combine agility and expertise while still following the strict rules governing public procurement.

Xerox relies on bullion for its critical applications

Video. In order to virtualize its mission-critical and core paperless processing and document management applications, Xerox GDO France (Xerox’s document management outsourcing business) has chosen bullion servers from Bull, which are delivering tangible results in terms of availability, agility and energy efficiency. Bastien Vigneron, CIO of Xerox GDO France, explains.

Danger in cyber-space

Executive opinion. The Internet ubiquity, hungry demand for mobility and rise of the Cloud are breaking protective barriers in cyber-space, where ever more sophisticated and hidden dangers have increasingly serious consequences. Philippe Duluc, Director of Bull’s security activities, explores this evolution and runs through some basic principles of cyber-security as we enter the age of the Cloud.

Bull and Coreso: reenergizing the relationship

Coreso, which is responsible for securing electricity supplies to 215 million European citizens, has just renewed its systems outsourcing contract with Bull for three more years.

Crédit Agricole boost its infrastructure

Faced with an urgent need for more servers and storage, Crédit Agricole in Belgium was won over by Bull’s responsiveness and the quality of its hardware and services offerings.

Human rights Ombudsman turns to bullion

The recently appointed independent adjudicator in France charged with defending citizens’ human rights and freedoms has established a powerful information system based on bullion.

Large-scale maintenance in Poland

Bull Poland is set to ensure the maintenance of 200 servers and storage systems, from various manufacturers, in a four-year deal with the Ministry of Finance.

High availability all the way down the line

Transport operator RATP has chosen Bull Evidian’s SafeKit to ensure high availability of the critical applications in its centralized control room on line 1 of the Paris Metro.

Faultless delivery at Montpellier education office

With Bull’s support, the education office has industrialized the qualification of the accounting and financial management system used by all French schools and colleges.

Bull expands its business in Poland with JADE

AMG.net, (a Bull company), has acquired JADE, a leader in Poland in systems integration around Microsoft technologies. A skills center will be established and 200 people recruited.

Bull honored in the Netherlands

The bullion-based private Cloud architecture Bull has implemented for insurance company Erasmus Leven has earned it the title of ‘Hardware Supplier of the Year’ in the Netherlands.

Bull Angers welcomes Catherine Rivière

Catherine Rivière, CEO of France’s HPC organization GENCI, has visited Bull’s factory at Angers, France. The Group recently installed the CURIE Petascale supercomputer for GENCI.

Bull and TalentSoft: partners in the Cloud

ISV TalentSoft is to host its talent management offering in SaaS mode on the Cloud platform of Bull’s subsidiary Agarik, while Bull itself is using the application to optimize its HR policies.

Copenhagen | June 4-7 2012
74th EAGE Conference & Exhibition

Tallinn - Estonia | June 6-8 2012
2012 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition

Hamburg | June 17-21 2012
ISC'12

Transamerica Expo Center São Paulo - Brazil | June 20-22 2012
22nd CIAB FEBRABAN

Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau Paris area) | June 27-28 2012
2012 TERATEC Forum

Mannheim - Germany | September 24-25 2012
ISC Cloud 12