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High-performance application and consolidation server
	The novascale BL265 is based on the new Intel architecture, codenamed Westmere. It provides increased memory capacity and direct access by the Intel Xeon 5600 processors through Quickpath interconnect technology. The fourth generation of novascale blade servers ensures the continuation of its investment protection by inserting into any Bull Blade Chassis.

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Maximize your virtualization experience
	The novascale BL265+ is based on the new Intel architecture, codenamed Westmere. It provides increased memory capacity with 18 DIMM slots and direct access by the Intel Xeon 5600 processors. The fifth generation of NovaScale blade servers ensures the continuation of its investment protection by inserting into any Bull Blade Chassis.

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All-purpose, flexible blade server designed for energy efficiency and performance
	The novascale BL275 blade server offers you flexible configuration options and provides you the energy efficiency and density you need. Combine the twelve DIMM slots supporting up to 192 GB of DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz, with the integrated 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) onboard for flexibility with value.

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Outstanding performance with novascale BL275+
	The novascale BL275+ offers great performance balanced with flexible configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads exceptionally well.

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Pay-as-you grow virtualization blade server

The novascale BL465 server is based on the new Intel architecture, codenamed Westmere EX. It provides increased memory capacity and direct access to memory by the Intel Westmere EX processors. The novascale BL465 provides the ability to increase CPU and memory capacity. The fifth generation of novascale blade servers ensures the continuation of its investment protection by inserting into Bull Blade Chassis - Enterprise.

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Novascale & Escala blade servers in a single chassis to enhance flexibility

The Bull Blade Chassis - Enterprise provides performance optimization and increased energy efficiency. It is one of the strengths of Bull s Bio Data Center, a new approach of the Data Center combining performance, flexibility and sustainable development. The Bull Blade Chassis integrates both novascale blade servers based on Intel® Xeon® processors and Escala blade servers based on POWER7 thus providing a modular solution for VMware, Windows, Linux & AIX environments. It is the ideal platform for demanding environments in terms of performance, space occupancy and energy efficiency.

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Greatly expands computing power while reducing management
	With Bull Blade Chassis - Standard, part of Bull Blade Series, servers can be added to the data center while actually decreasing deployment and service work. Blade computing introduces a new data center paradigm where many ultra-thin compute blades share centralized resources such as power supplies, fans and network switches in a single chassis.

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Preserves network investment potection while reducing operating expenses

The Cisco L2/L3 Ethernet switch for Bull Blade Chasis is based on the Cisco Catalyst 3012. It’s an integrated switch for Bull Blade Series customers that extends resilient and secure Cisco® infrastructure services to the server edge and uses existing network investments to help reduce operating expenses. It provides an integrated switching solution that dramatically reduces cable complexity. It uses the comprehensive Cisco management framework to simplify ongoing operations.

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The 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for Bull Blade Series is ideal for clients looking to enable end-to-end non-blocking 10Gb setup within the chassis. This device supports both Ethernet and Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE ) packets, which allows clients to connect a Bull Blade Chassis to an FCoE-capable top-of-rack switch. The 14 10Gb Uplink ports are based on optical SFP+ technology to offer the highest performance while maintaining industry standard connectivity. This offering will also work with Open Fabric Manager, providing all the benefits of I/O Virtualization at 10Gb speeds.

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In today’s environment as data center space is constrained and IT budgets get smaller, clients are looking for ways to increase utilization of their hardware. Virtualization offers the perfect platform by allowing clients to implement multiple virtual machines per server. To meet client requirements, Bull Blade Series offers the right balance of compute and I/O by offering high-performance servers like HS22 and next-generation 10Gb networking from Blade Network Technology.

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Budget friendly solution for customers who want to use their existing switching infrastructure

Pass-thru modules are I/O options that can be used for direct connections of blade ports to external infrastructure devices such as network switches. The iCPM provides a budget friendly solution for customers who want to preserve the investments they have made on existing LAN network. It’s an ideal solution to ease the migration to blade servers for collaboration applications, server consolidation and internet serving.

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Entry level Ethernet connectivity with simplified management
	The Server Connectivity Module for Bull Blade Series provides a simple Ethernet interface option for connecting Bull Blade Series to the network infrastructure. Connecting any Bull Blade Chassis with up to 14 server blades becomes as easy as connecting a single server to the network.

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Bio-datacenter evolving infrastructure with high speed connections for any Bull Blade Chassis

Nortel 1/10Gb uplink Ethernet Switch for Bull Blade Chassis provides the ability to converge network and SAN fabrics onto 10Gb Ethernet in the future, while providing very low power, low cost and less complexity today. This switch provides seamless integration into any standard (Cisco) network, while evolving the infrastructure to keep in pace with virtualization needs (VMReady) or high speed iSCSI requirements.

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Lower Total Cost of Operation, High Performance, Enhanced Server Virtualization, and Increased Resilience

The Cisco Nexus™ 4001I Switch Module for Bull Blade Series is a blade switch solution for Bull Blade Chassis - Enterprise, providing the server I/O solution required for high-performance, scale-out, virtualized and nonvirtualized x86 computing architectures. It is a line-rate, extremely low-latency, nonblocking, Layer 2, 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade switch that is fully compliant with the INCITS Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards.

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Seamless integration into existing FC storage networks

Bull is offering a 4/8 Gb version of the QLogic Intelligent Pass-thru Module which helps provide seamless interoperability to an external SAN fabric, primarily those utilizing the extended features from their SAN infrastructure provider. This product is ideal for those clients with existing SANs that want to integrate Bull Blade Chassis cost-effectively, and without disruption to their existing SAN.

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Seamless integration into existing FC storage networks
	The Intelligent Fibre Channel Pass-through Module provides seamless integration of Bull Blade Series into existing Fibre Channel Networks using N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology. The pass-Through Module provides the advantages of FC switches and a pass-through module combined, in a very cost effective manner.

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8GB Fibre channel switching for attractive price per port

The QLogic 20-port 4/8 Gb SAN Switch Module is the latest Fibre Channel switching option for Bull Blade Chassis. This offering allows Bull blade servers integration with any open-standards-based storage area network (SAN), whether it is an enterprise open-system fabric functionality utilizing the full-fabric mode or the module with transparent switching functionality utilizing the Intelligent Pass-Thru mode.

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8GB Fibre channel switching for attractive price per port

The QLogic Fibre Channel (FC) switch module helps to deliver high-performance SAN solutions using 8Gb Fibre Channel Technology. For customers deploying standards-based solutions, this switch supports interoperability in open mode leveraging FC-SW-2 -compliant SANs. Easily integrated into core or edge SAN configurations using its Management Suite. Bull Blade Series offers built-in Fibre Channel connectivity with additional external ports to share more easily 8GB SAN infrastructures with other servers of back-up libraries.

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Provides cost-efficient SAN connectivity

Bull blade servers can now be connected in a cost efficient way to external SAS storage either for boot or data purposes. With an external SAS storage, it can provide boot, or data solutions. The SAS connectivity module is the cornerstone to provide a flexible, easy to manage IT infrastructure. It provides the availability, managability and robustness to run office-automation, Citrix, file-print services, mesaging, ERP and databases for SMB or remote officies.

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