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2nd European HyperWorks Technology Conference
Strasbourg, September 30 – October 1
Altair Engineering will host its 2nd European HyperWorks Technology Conference (EHTC) from September 30th until October 1st in Strasbourg, France. After last year's success, the 2nd EHTC will bring together experts from all industries, presenting their experience with HyperWorks and highlighting the latest trends, developments and applications in the field of enterprise simulation. In addition, the EHTC gives you the opportunity to talk to international Altair Engineering experts and helps you learn more about new applications and features of HyperWorks and PBS GridWorks.
Bull is an exhibitor at EHTC. Visit our booth and discover our latest HPC solutions
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Evidian is a sponsor of the Gartner IAM Summit 2008
London, June 23-24
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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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ISC'08
June 17-20 in Dresden, Germany
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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 roadshow 2008
Paris and Toulouse, June 2008
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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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CUBE (Bull European User Group) AGM
Nice, 5-6 June
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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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CUBE Unix Forum
Paris, June 2
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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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Bull takes part in the 2nd European Health Information Technologies congress
Paris, 27-30 May
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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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IDC Conference
Green IT: the IT Department at the heart of energy management performance
Paris, May 29
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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.
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Les Assises du numérique IT Congress
Paris, 29 May
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
At 18.40pm , Eric Besson will close the event.
Bull, which is sponsoring this event, will be represented by Didier Lamouche, Chairman and CEO, who will contribute to the round-table discussion on ‘ ICT as a driver for the international opening up of the Mediterranean economy’ from 15.20pm to 16.20pm , following the presentation by Ahmed Chami , Moroccan Minister for Industry, Commerce and New Technologies. The other contributors will include:
- 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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Governance in local authorities
Paris, May 23
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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IAM 2008
Madrid, May 21-22
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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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LinuxDays 2008
Geneva - 21 & 22 May
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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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Bull Summit 2008 Conference
May 6-9, Phoenix
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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 highlightsGeneral Session Preview
- 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.
Targeted session previews – GCOS 8, GCOS 7, Escala/AIX, and Managed Services – will feature update on Bull’s strategies and progress and customers cases studies
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JavaOne
6-8 may 2008, San Francisco
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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.
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2008 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition: Integrated Boarder Management: is IT essential?
Seoul, Republic of Korea, 23 to 25 April
The WCO IT conference and exhibition organized by the WCO (World Customs Organization which involves 169 Member Governments) will take place in Seoul/Republic of Korea, at the Grand Hyatt hotel, from April 23 to 25.
According to Michel Danet, Secretary General of the WCO: “The World in Transition” is a particularly significant theme as modern Customs must embrace the integrated supply chain perspective and manage the transition from the castle watch to the modern global environment with increasing volumes of trade and unprecedent calls for safe, secure, efficient and well-managed borders”. In this respect, no doubt that IT plays a pivotal role in this new Customs environment which emphasizes the importance of security while promoting the facilitated movement of goods across the globe.
We are pleased to invite you at Bull’s breakout conference to be held on April 24 from 4:00pm to 4:30pm, plenary session. Jean-François Betbeder, Vice-President, Bull’s Customs and Tax Worldwide Business Unit will deliver a keynote address and demonstrate how e-biscus™ helps Customs interact in a global environment. E-biscus is Bull’s open and flexible software solution suite for Customs, which facilitates the legal commerce through fraud detection, fast clearance and efficient enforcement.
Our experts will welcome you on our booth (# 2) to demonstrate our e-biscus™ Customs business solution and answer your questions.
Bull has gained worldwide recognition in the public sector for its expertise, in particular in aligning Customs systems to new international demands. For several years now, Bull has been involved in developing customs solutions in several European countries during their preparation for EU accession, supporting the implementation of EU requirements. These countries include Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania; Ireland and Morocco have also selected Bull’s Customs solutions to modernize their system.
* Established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council, the WCO is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations. With 169 Member Governments, it is the only intergovernmental worldwide organization competent in Customs matters.
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2nd European Identity Conference
April 22-25, Munich, Germany
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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.
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InfoSecurity Europe
London, April 22-24
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Evidian will be present at InfoSecurity Europe (London), the most comprehensive convergence of information security professionals in Europe. This event addresses today’s strategic and technical issues in an unrivalled education program and showcases the most diverse range of new and innovative products and services from over 300 suppliers on the show floor. In 2007, InfoSecurity Europe attracted over 10,000 visitors.
Evidian will be presenting its Enterprise SSO and mobile solutions on stand C180. There, live demos will show how to prevent malicious insider access to critical applications.
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Overheid ICT
Utrecht, April 22-24
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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.
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WebOS and future Web applications
Paris, 18 April
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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.
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Optimizing your Oracle Database Infrastructure with DataScale
April 16 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
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.
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Security Day 2008 – 01 Events
Paris, April 2nd
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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.
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Optimizing your Oracle Database Infrastructure with DataScale
March 21 - Bucarest, Romania
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.
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.
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InfoSecurity Belgium
Brussels, March 19-20
InfoSecurity.be, at the Brussels Kart Expo, brings IT specialists and decision-makers with a specific interest in IT security and data storage in contact with more than 80 suppliers of IT security and data storage products, services and solutions.
Evidian will be exhibiting on booth 1A141.
Are you interested in Belgium’s eID identity smart card? You can discover how, with Evidian's IAM Suite, users can use their eID to authenticate in your information system. Evidian’s access management offer provides authentication management and enterprise SSO for desktop, Web and SOA applications.
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OpenExpo
Bern, Switzerland – 12-13 March
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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
During the afternoon of 12 March, visitors will also have an opportunity for discussion with Jean-Pierre Laisné, President of OW2, the leading international Open Source middleware consortium, and director of QualiPSo, the main Open Source project supported by the European Commission.
The exhibition will close with an award to the winner of Bull’s OpenExpo 2008 competition
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CeBIT 2008
March 4-9, Hannover, Germany
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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.
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Optimizing your Oracle Database Infrastructure with DataScale
March 5 - Prague, Czech Republic
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.
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.
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VMworld Europe 2008
Cannes, February 26-28
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).
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Seminar: Optimizing your Oracle Database Infrastructure with DataScale
Thursday February 21st - Vilnius, Lithuania
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.
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.
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Adaptability and variablility: two drivers for flexibility enabled by outsourcing
20 february 2008, Paris
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.
As an outsourcing supplier, Bull will describe how it takes into account its customers’ needs for flexibility, thanks to its large-scale production capacity, expertise in IT governance, and contractual approach.
* Parcours 3 is a management support application for career development, and professional and social integration for young people aged between 16 and 25. It is used by 504 French job centers located in every French region.
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Bull – IDC European storage Roadshow
April - June 2008
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.
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