Bull and Metilinx partner on infrastructure optimization and consolidation
Enterprises benefit from more effective asset utilization, re-prioritization of investment.
Paris, France and San Mateo, CA
July
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Today, Bull announced that it has reinforced its present services capabilities in the areas of infrastructure virtualization, optimization and consolidation with MetiLinx offerings thus enabling customers to make better use of their deployed technology assets. The services are already being offered in France, and will be progressively available through Bull subsidiaries in more than 90 countries world-wide. These service offerings are part of a multi-year agreement between the two companies, whereby Bull will embed MetiLinx technologies into customized solutions as well.
"Our partnership with MetiLinx will enhance our services offerings while assisting our customers in leveraging their existing IT assets. It will also provide Bull with flexibility for additional solutions in areas such as High Performance Computing and Continuous Data Availability, a key area of growth for Bull" said Jean-Pierre Barbéris, General Manager of the services activities.
"We are extremely pleased to have been selected by Bull as their strategic partner in this initiative. The combination of Bull's leading edge hardware, software and services with MetiLinx' powerful Infrastructure and Database suites will provide our customers with the ability to take their organizations to the next level of effectiveness" said Stephen Richards, CEO of MetiLinx.
Bull is currently offering packages that improve the efficiencies of customers' IT infrastructure such as:
Asset Optimization - provides an overview snapshot of your current environment via auto-discovery methods, then focuses on identifying disconnects between business processes and actual IT system performance. This is normally followed by Consolidation and/or Optimization solutions.
System Optimization and Virtualization - Companies are searching for ways to reduce costs and alleviate the need to make new capital investments. IT organizations are tasked with trying to squeeze more processing power out of existing systems without affecting current business operations. Popular strategies include using virtualization technologies to enable greater processing on fewer servers.
System and Application Metering - delivers a simplified utilization measurement solution that allows you to monitor systems and applications to determine machine load, and who uses how much of what. Through reporting trends and simplified correlations of system utilization, enables better forecasting of future capacity needs.
Continuous Data Protection - provides a software replication framework that offers a non-invasive, platform-independent solution that maintains on-line replication and synchronization of data across WAN/LAN frameworks, the framework also enables the real-time recovery and synchronization of a data on a network from other database(s) within the CDP framework
About MetiLinx
MetiLinx, Inc. is the leading provider of software technologies for utility computing in the heterogeneous data center. Its solutions address the most pressing issues facing technologists today - IT and server consolidation, utility computing and usage metering.
MetiLinx is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with offices throughout North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.metilinx.com.
Press Contact
Metilinx
Tiffany Crane - Tel: (650) 292-9230 - tcrane@metilinx.com
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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