Bull and Basis Bay announce a major business and technology agreement
A strategic alliance that launches Jazz Series, based on Bull NovaScale® server technology
Paris,
May
4, 2006 -
Bull and Basis Bay today announced a major 5-year OEM agreement, based on the following terms:
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Bull will provide Basis Bay with Bull NovaScale technology for the development of its own range of high-end servers, based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processors for the Malaysia and Thailand markets
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Basis Bay Enterprise Servers - Jazz Series will be powered by the Bull NovaScale technology
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Bull and Basis Bay will partner on large projects with Bull providing its expertise in Services and Systems Integration
The Jazz series are totally adapted to the specific market needs as they represent the most powerful solution available for Open Source and Windows-based solutions.
The Bull NovaScale server range is a new generation of open, standard and mainframe-class enterprise servers, supporting Windows®, Linux® and GCOS operating systems. It is a reliable and proven alternative to traditional mainframes, benefiting from cost-effective, scalable and open environments.
The features of the Bull NovaScale high-end servers make them particularly appropriate for application consolidation, very large databases, ERP applications or demanding high-performance applications. With very large computing power and bandwidth, they also answer the needs of scientific and technical applications that require powerful nodes within cluster or grid architectures.
"Bull is very pleased to announce today this new OEM agreement with Basis Bay. OEM agreements represent a cornerstone in Bull's go-to-market model. This OEM agreement will significantly widen our market reach for NovaScale. We are impressed by Basis Bay's business execution in its target markets such as public sector, and we look forward to a great partnership" declared Michel Lepert General Manager of the Products and Systems activities of Bull.
"Bull is an ideal vendor for technology partnership, given their expertise and capabilities in high-end enterprise level mainframes in the international market. The relationship between Bull and Basis Bay is compelling in the way that it provides a strategic and competitive alternative for Malaysia and Thailand from a vendor with excellent technology and reputation" said Praba Thiagarajah, CEO of Basis Bay.
About Basis Bay
Basis Bay Group has a diversified interest and provides shared services and outsourcing expertise in Information Technology (IT) with the primary intention of providing quality, cost-effective and state-of-the-art solutions that is vendor independent.
Established is 1996, the group is ISO 9001 certified and have been awarded the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status for its effort in providing the best-of-breed and financial viable IT and business solutions.
Basis Bay's services include procurement, customization, complete installation, technical support, training and maintenance of midrange to mainframe computer hardware. The company also provides consulting expertise as well as services in the areas of security, storage, disaster recovery services, contact centre disaster recovery, business continuity management and data centre management. Other business applications also managed by the company includes Enterprise Resource Planning.
For more information, visit our website at www.basisbay.com or e-mail to info@basisbay.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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