Storage solutions

Disk storage systems

Bull has been among the pioneers in anticipating storage evolutions in a networked world. As early as 1992, Bull introduced the first RAID systems in Europe, and introduced the first fibre channel connections for UNIX / AIX servers. At the same time, Bull developed specific storage solutions for proprietary environments, using fully standard SCSI systems. Since then, Bull has developed this expertise for open systems environments, with a global integrator approach.

Bull offers and integrates the following disk storage systems in all environments:

	The StoreWay FDA line  responds to the evolution of the primary mass storage market. The sub-systems are based on a 3U packaging, each housing up to 15 Fibre disks. Disks range from 36 Gigabytes 15Krpm to 300 Gigabytes 10Krpm (36GB, 73GB, 146GB 15Krpm; 73GB, 146GB, 300GB 10Krpm).
	The FAS3000 series and the FAS270 delivers up to twice the price/performance of competing products in its class. Disk range: 72/144/300GB FC  250GB ATA with RAID-DP and RAID 4.
	The EMC² CLARiiON Family delivers high availability, advanced functionality, and maximum investment protection for customers in the SMB, Commercial, and enterprise segments. Capacity storage: from 365 GB to 76 TB.
	The Symmetrix DMX Series of networked storage systems, (the DMX800, DMX1000, DMX2000, and DMX3000, and new DMX-3) delivers the best performance, the highest availability, unprecedented functionality, and the most complete connectivity available.

Bull NAS solutions

Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions provide enterprises a simple, robust and easy to use storage infrastructure for user groups and servers. 

Bull provides complete expertise and services in NAS infrastructures. Depending on each enterprise context and needs, Bull provides complete advice on the best storage solution to implement - NAS or SAN - and offers complete integration, deployment and tuning services, from simple to complex environments.

Bull notably offers NAS Pro 600  Appliance and NAS Pro 600 Gateway which use Windows Storage Server  (WSS) operating system.

	The Bull NAS Pro 600 Appliance is a filer easy to set up and manage. This Bull Network Attached Storage (NAS) offer delivers fast and simple to use storage with multi-protocol file support for departmental and workgroups environments.
	Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 is a dedicated file and print server that has all functionality unrelated to file serving removed, increasing reliability and lowering the overhead on the device CPU. Built-in hardware redundancies are included in most solutions to provide a fully redundant architecture.
	The Bull NAS Pro 600 Gateway is ideal for enterprises with limited IT resources that require fast, simple to use, rapidly deployable, flexible storage and need remote manageability. Clients and servers running different operating systems can share storage in departmental and workgroup environments.

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