Bull announces the NovaScale 2021 Blade server
A platform designed to reduce IT infrastructure complexity
The NovaScale® 2021 Blade server features 64-bit Intel® Xeon processors
Paris,
February
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Bull introduces today the second generation of its NovaScale Blade servers with the NovaScale Blade 2021.
A powerful platform designed to reduce infrastructure costs and complexity:
With its advanced technology, the Bull NovaScale 2021 blade server has been designed as a powerful platform to reduce both infrastructure complexity and costs through applications and data consolidation.
The NovaScale 2021 Blade server based on 64-bit Intel Xeon processors also drastically simplifies deployments of large scale applications such as Oracle or SAP.
The architecture provides a high density of computing power and huge horizontal scalability. To lower acquisition and operational costs and to simplify infrastructures deployments, NovaScale Blade servers are based on common standard building-blocks and a single chassis, and are delivered with powerful management tools including Bull NovaScale Master
Designed and developed by Bull, NovaScale Master is a software suite based on open source components. It is fully interoperable with other management platforms and is complemented by a suite of tools that allows fast deployment, provisioning and inventory control.
"The NovaScale 2021 Blade servers from Bull deliver increased manageability with performance, reliability, size and power saving features that IT managers demand," said Taufik Ma, General Manager Enterprise Products and Services Division, Intel Corporation. "These servers help reduce infrastructure complexity and saving costs, using the latest Intel® 64-bit processor technology" he continued.
"An ideal complement to our Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based NovaScale servers, the NovaScale Blade server strengthens our offer and will help our customers to consolidate their overall infrastructure at a low cost. Our value proposal based on high flexibility is very attractive to telco operators and large companies to whom Bull has already delivered hundreds of NovaScale blade servers since their launch," said Bruno Pinna, Director of Bull Intel Business Unit.
The sharing of critical components (including redundant power supplies, management modules, network accesses and midplanes), the increased density and the powerful tools for administration help reducing the large IT infrastructure complexity, simplifying and accelerating deployments, thus improving troubleshooting and securing repair.
The NovaScale Blade servers bring the flexibility, the interoperability and the non-stop services required by the new service-oriented infrastructures. NovaScale Blade servers - from acquisition through multiple redeployments and service - offer attractive cost-effective solutions to reducing TCO in today's data centers while eliminating much of the time an administrator dedicates to deploying and managing servers.
Bull also provides a full range of professional services to assist its customers in the installation, deployment and operations of its blade server infrastructure.
Bull NovaScale 2021 Blade Server characteristics
The new Bull NovaScale 2021 Blade server is equipped with 2-way 64-bit Intel® XeonTM processors blades with a frequency of up to 3.6GHZ, 1MB L2 cache running at 800MHz FSB and new SCSI disks.
The Intel® XeonTM processor brings 64-bit extension technology, PCI Express, the new generation of high speed memory DDR2 and the DBS function to optimize the power consumption.
The NovaScale Blade 2021 Blade Server includes a high density chassis (7U), holding up to 14 x 2-way blades.
Each NovaScale Blade has its own Service Processor, communicating with a centralized optional redundant chassis management module.
The NovaScale Blade may optionally be equipped with storage capacities up to 746GB and delivers extensive I/O capabilities for larger network (LAN/SAN) connectivity.
The NovaScale Blade servers run Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Red Hat® Linux® and Novell® Linux®.
The NovaScale Blade servers will support forthcoming 64-bit Intel® XeonTM processors which will notably provide larger amounts of cache memory.
Main characteristics summary
- Support of the 64-bit Intel® XeonTM processors, PCI Express, DDR2, DBS
- Support of SCSI disks
- Same chassis as Bull NovaScale Blade Servers 2020 & 2040
- Powerful management tools including NovaScale Master and an Integrated Processor Management Interface (IPMI)
Price and availability date
The new server is available at the time of this announcement.
Entry prices start from 1 900 euros
More info on www.bull.com/novascale
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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