Software

	Bull brings together the expertise of a software publisher, world-class partnerships and deep understanding of Open Source software to provide open, powerful, flexible and reliable software environments

Microsoft solutions

Gold certification and a close R&D partnership with Microsoft

From entry-level servers to large-scale configurations including 64-bit NovaScale® servers, storage networks, high-availability solutions and clusters… Bull has forged close links between its leading-edge technologies and those of Microsoft to build reliable, high-performance and extremely competitive solutions. Through its certified competence centers, Bull meets the needs of organizations that demand high levels of expertise to develop and integrate applications in Microsoft environments

Linux and open source-based solutions

Implementing mission-critical infrastructures and applications with Linux

Today, Linux and Open Source software make a major contribution to the openness and flexibility of information systems. Bull was one of the very first manufacturers to make a commitment to these standards, and is now one of the world’ leading contributors to open software. Working in partnership with major Linux distributions (Red Hat, Novell, Debian, Mandriva, etc...), Bull helps organizations implement robust infrastructures and applications, utilizing the latest advances in Linux and Open Source. 

Security software

Providing total confidence to develop systems for an open world

Pirating, vandalism, industrial espionage, fraud, sabotage from within the organization … cybercrime and the resulting security demands are doubling year on year. As a European leader in integrated security and number one in Europe for identity and access management, as well as SSO (single sign-on), Bull offers a comprehensive family of authorization management software through its specialist subsidiary, Evidian (www.evidian.com). And with MetaPKI and MetaSign, Bull also offers a flexible suite of software for user authentication, electronic signature, encoding and Web services.

System supervision and administration software

Ensuring 24/7 service quality for applications

No service is of any value at all unless it is available and performs well. The OpenMaster software suite offered by Bull’s subsidiary Evidian – recognized as the number one in Europe for service quality and telecom management – offers advanced solutions for supervision and intelligent correlation, for corporations and telecoms operators alike. Already used by many of the world’s largest telcos, OpenMaster and the functional tools it provides guarantees that problems with even the most complex of information systems are rapidly resolved.

Simplified high availability solutions

Ensuring application high availability with a simple and efficient solution

The traditional hardware clustering solutions are most often complex
to administrate. With ARF and SafeKit developped by Bull,
the high availability solutions become easy to install and maintain.
Discover ARF to build hardware clusters with Escala AIX servers
and SafeKit to build multi-platform software clusters.

Middleware

Application servers, transactional servers, enterprise application integration, business process management…

Today, middleware is essential when it comes to building, integrating and deploying distributed applications. As a co-founder of OW2, the leading international consortium dedicated to open source middleware, and a strategic contributor to JBoss, Bull has created the Bull Service-Oriented Architecture platform (BSOA). This modular middleware platform combines all the flexibility of the open world and the support you’d expect from an established software publisher, at a particularly attractive cost of ownership. Consisting of Open Source products, actively supported and enhanced by Bull, BSOA is available through the Open Energy service to build portals, workflow tools, process orchestration solutions, ESBs or specific application platform suites