Bull announces the availability of the EMC CLARiiON AX100
on its Escala servers
Bull demonstrates its expertise in storage
and the high level of partnership with EMC by qualifying and integrating
the EMC CLARiiON AX100 systems on AIX
Paris,
July
13, 2004 -
Bull announces the availability of entry-level storage EMC CLARiiON AX100 systems on its AIXTM servers. Integrated and validated by Bull in SAN environments, EMC CLARiiON AX100 simplifies the administration of the storage infrastructures and lowers storage costs.
Optimising storage & server infrastructure costs
The new EMC CLARiiON AX100 storage systems, based on the S-ATA technology, enable the optimisation of storage infrastructure costs.
The integration of these new storage systems, now available on the entire Escala server range, was completed in co-ordination with EMC's R&D teams. This integration demonstrates Bull's technological competence in the AIXTM server domain, as well as in the storage field.
Simplifying information lifecycle management
Bull's objective is to allow its customers to increase consistency between their storage infrastructures and the lifecycle management of their information, thus reinforcing productivity as well as data security.
With a complete set of tested industrial solutions, Bull allows its customers to optimise their storage infrastructure, depending on the sensitivity level of their data and the service level required.
A natural complement to a global approach of building robust and easy-to-manage networked storage solutions
Bull's services and products are particularly strong in the areas of disaster recovery and high availability solutions.
In the storage infrastructure area, Bull offers the following solutions:
· Real-time solutions for high availability, such as Bull's Application Roll-over Facility (ARF) solution for Bull EscalaTM server clusters, making immediate and automatic fault recovery possible without impacting the users
· Multi-platform disaster recovery solutions, including recovery time optimisation -- even in the case of major failures
· Replicated solutions for secure backups (Bull OpenSave)
· Solutions for networked storage administration (Bull SAN@IT)
"The EMC CLARiiON AX100 system running on AIXTM makes new levels of productivity, performance and reliability possible for Bull's customers at a particularly competitive price," declared Torsten Svensson, EMC, European, Middle-East and African Sales Director.
"Bull's experience in complex infrastructure environments that integrate storage systems, enterprise servers and mission critical applications is an unmatched asset, especially in the implementation of EMC CLARiiON storage solutions," summarized M. Svensson.
"Porting AX100 onto AIXTM demonstrated Bull's expertise in storage, and the strength of the partnership between Bull and EMC. With this solution, Bull's customers have competitive and high-performance storage systems at their disposal. They provide large productivity improvements, thus contributing to rationalisation of customers' storage infrastructures," stated André Hélie-Joly, Escala Business Unit Director.
Bull and EMC: over ten years of partnership
Bull and EMC have been working together for over ten years on the design and supply of storage infrastructure, regularly renewing their offers based on EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON subsystems.
By making full use of the skills available in its dedicated competence centres, and through its extensive distribution network, Bull has developed a line of high-level services for storage infrastructure, including audits, design, and implementation.
Product availability
AX100 on AIXTM will be available for Bull EscalaTM servers starting from September 2004.
AX100 in mono controller version, with 250 GB S-ATA Disk: 7400 Euros
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for storage and data management, helping companies get the maximum value from their information capital, for the lowest expense; all along the entire information life cycle. For more information on EMC products and services, see: www.emc.com or www.emc2.fr
About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers, software and services for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. In this respect, Bull's range of NovaScale servers combines the openness of standards with the robustness of mainframes. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications.
Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication, utilities and manufacturing sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.
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