Bull helps Belgian National Register to renew its IT equipment
Bull secures seven-year infrastructure, €23 million contract
Paris,
September
14, 2005 -
The "Registre National" (national register) - part of the Belgian Interior ministry - which administers the database managing the country's entire population, regardless of their nationality or residency status, has turned to Bull for the renewal of its IT equipment.
Bull will provide 2 Bull NovaScale® 9000 systems. Powerful and scalable, these servers are based on the FAME architecture (Flexible Architecture for Multiple Environments) and simultaneously run several environments: Linux®, Window® and GCOS8.
This is a major contract in terms of value and operational period but also by the impact on the evolution of the Registre National. Through this contract, Bull plays an active role in the definition of the migration strategy that aims at evolving towards an open architecture over the next 7 years. This migration is part of the Belgian government's plan to implement e-government, an initiative in which the Registre National plays an especially pivotal role, not least in the roll-out of the electronic citizens' card which will soon enable inhabitants to access government services in a simple and secure way.
The Bull NovaScale® 9000 series
Developed by Bull, these servers reflect Bull's ambition to offer open and powerful environments based on standard technologies: the family of Intel® Itanium® 2 processors to meet the strong expectations in terms of openness, flexibility and business continuity.
They also reflect Bull's ambition to provide its GCOS customers a long-term evolution path. This includes giving them the best of what new technologies and standards can offer while protecting their current applications and investments.
The NovaScale® 9000 servers can run GCOS 8 on Intel's most powerful processors as well as on Bull's FAME architecture. The GCOS8 applications are thus fully compatible, without any modifications or recompilation.
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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