Bull NovaScale servers and Windows Server 2003 to reduce the cost and complexity of data center environments

Cost, complexity and service levels are the primary concerns for IT organizations around the globe.

To reduce the number of hardware, operating systems and applications running in their data centers, more and more organizations are considering consolidation and Microsoft standardization as the solution to achieve cost reduction and simplify the complexity of their data center environments.

Bull provides a total solution including Bull NovaScale family of servers, consulting, integration and infrastructure services expertise to help enterprises in achieving data center consolidation and standardisation through the deployment of Microsoft technologies, while increasing agility, improving service quality and enabling business growth.

Bull has optimized the standards-based NovaScale servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system to deliver performance, robustness and security required by critical applications like transaction-intensive database applications, by large enterprise-scale Business Intelligence solutions, as well as to extend the benefits of consolidation to the most vital business applications.

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter and Enterprise Editions in particular are well known for their reliability, scalability and manageability.

Bull NovaScale Intensive servers for large-scale Business Intelligence applications

Bull NovaScale Intensive servers - based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 technology - provide outstanding performance, enhanced physical partitioning for higher flexibility and a best-in-class availability. These modular, mainframe-class servers benefit from Bull’s expertise in large enterprise systems. Bull NovaScale Intensive family is a real alternative to large traditional servers in the data center.
Bull NovaScale Intensive servers running Windows Server 2003 are the ideal platform for customer’s most demanding workloads, such as highly scalable business intelligence solutions for mission-critical environments.
The new enhancements within SQL Server 2005 make the value of Bull NovaScale even more compelling for meeting mission-critical enterprise and server consolidation needs.
Large enterprises around the world are choosing Bull NovaScale servers and SQL Server 2005 for increased performance and scalability, reduced costs, and enhanced analytics capacity. And with the ability of Bull NovaScale Intensive Line to scale up to 32 dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, customers are assured that the Bull solution will keep pace with even the most demanding business requirements.

Bull NovaScale Universal servers for scale-out SQL Server applications

Bull NovaScale Universal Line – ranging from ultra-dense server blades to a complete line of rack and tower servers based on Dual-core Intel® Xeon® technology - represents today the ideal for high-performance, heat-sensitive, space-constrained environments, helping enterprises' IT managers to increase power efficiency and lower energy costs.

Bull NovaScale Universal servers are designed to handle greater workloads with enhanced performance, reliability, and scalability, ideal for “scale-out” SQL Server 2005 database applications.
Bull NovaScale Universal servers deliver an integrated infrastructure for data centers requiring front-end and applications servers in space constrained environments, as well as fault-tolerant servers for mission-critical applications in Windows Server 2003 environment.

By coupling the industry-standard SQL Server 2005 database with Bull NovaScale Universal Line of servers, storage and services, customers have a powerful and versatile platform family offering value and performance, while benefiting of Microsoft standardization in the data center for true agility and bottom-line impact.