The new Alliance delivers a suite of enabling programs designed to accelerate the availability of Itanium solutions. For customers, this will mean faster time-to-implementation of the applications most critical to their new business needs. Now customers can reap the benefits of industry standard technology providing lower cost, higher levels of system performance and application integration as well as a broader choice of hardware and software vendors committed to the Itanium architecture.

Bull Labs will be part of the Itanium Solution Centers network that will help the software community to test and tune their applications on Itanium.
This Alliance complements all the R&D investment made by Bull on NovaScale to deliver an open enterprise class server which should be the heart of the Datacenter.