Delivering the best available performance per watt in the industry, Bull unveils the NovaScale Blade 2320 at Cebit 2006
A blade server designed for the consolidation of hundreds of servers in space-constrained environments - Reduced cost of ownership - Advanced network virtualization and storage - Simplified manageability and low management costs
Hanover,
March
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Bull unveils the new NovaScale Blade 2320 based on the dual-core Low Voltage Intel® Xeon® technology. This new server benefits from of lower thermal design power, using Enhanced Intel Demand-based switching (DBS) technology.
In addition, this blade has up to 8GB of DDR-2 RAM memory, two internal 2,5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disks. NovaScale Blade 2320 runs Linux® RedHat®, Novell® SuSE Linux, Microsoft® Windows® or VmWare® ESX.
A blade server designed for the consolidation of hundreds of servers in space-constrained environments
Bull NovaScale Blade 2320 features makes it the ideal platform for large enterprises - such as Financial institutions or Telecom providers - which need to concentrate hundreds of servers in thermally-sensitive and space-constrained environments.
The NovaScale Blade 2320 requires minimal cooling, and generates low heat.
Advanced network virtualization and storage
With Safekit, Bull's optional advanced network virtualisation, HA and disaster recovery software, and Bulls enhanced Storeway Storage offer, the NovaScale Blade 2320 server delivers network management solutions for security, voice, infrastructure applications including web-serving, search engines and telecommunications servers.
Simplified manageability and low management costs
NovaScale Master - an integrated system management console - delivers simplified manageability of Bull's NovaScale Intel® Xeon® and Itanium® 2 processor server ranges.
The NovaScale Master Management Suite is also a deployment tool that instantly and automatically provisions and deploys multiple blades. In addition, NovaScale Master provides standard-based interfaces for an easy integration into today's enterprise management consoles. It drives down system management costs and facilitates provisioning and optimization of blade utilization.
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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