Seznam chooses Bull NovaScale® blade servers
Intel® Xeon processor-based servers deliver the performance and reliability to
power Internet advertising applications
Paris,
January
31, 2005 -
Seznam, the Czech Republic's largest Internet services portal, has chosen Bull's blade NovaScale® servers, to host its advertising applications on Internet. The Bull NovaScale blade servers selected by Seznam are Intel® XeonTM processor based systems, running Linux.
Facing the tremendous growth of these applications, Seznam has decided to increase both density and availability of their existing infrastructure. This motivated the launch of the project beginning of 2004, operational since April 2004 , that had to match four criteria:
- Extension of their computing power,
- Connection to existing SAN infrastructure without having to build up extra Fibre Channel infrastructure,
- Ease of deployment, simple administration and servicing,
- Excellent price/performance ratio of the fully redundant solution.
"We had selected Bull NovaScale® servers based on Intel's Xeon technology to build our portal infrastructure to host our advertising applications. Bull NovaScale® Blade servers' scalability, performance and availability quickly convinced us. On all of these criteria they beat the competition" said Pave Zima, Seznam's portal Technical Manager.
"This is an important success that demonstrates the superiority of NovaScale® blade servers in their capacity to fulfil the highest requirements of companies challenged with the consolidation of thousands of replicated network applications, such as Internet service providers and telecommunications operators" said Bruno Pinna, Intel servers business unit Director at Bull.
"Internet service companies require an IT infrastructure able to provide maximum availability and fast response to a growing customer base as any IT downtime can seriously impact operations across the entire enterprise," said Tom Garrison, head of enterprise marketing, Intel EMEA. "Telecommunications companies are increasingly adopting powerful Intel-based server platforms in response to their business needs. We are delighted that the Bull and Intel are able to provide Seznam with a solution that delivers the scalability, reliability and processing performance to power its business growth."
The solution developed for Seznam consists of:
- one Bull NovaScale® blade chassis connected to the existing disk array / SAN infrastructure through fibre channel switches,
- 14 two way Bull NovaScale® blade servers, each equipped with 2 Intel® XeonTM processors, 3,06 GHz, 2 GB RAM, FC adapter,
- 2 fibre channel 16-ports switches,
- 2 Ethernet switches.
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
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Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
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Building on its alliances with leading ISVs, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
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Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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