To take up the challenges of your storage infrastructure, discover the StoreWay NetApp Solution Center

Based in the technology center of Grenoble in France, the StoreWay NetApp Solution Center is intended for international activities and provides an ideal environment for IT professionals to meet Bull storage experts and to see how Bull and NetApp storage solutions can contribute to take up the numerous challenges of data management. We propose a wide range of demonstrated solutions and stay at your disposal to put in place personalized seminars, either on site or remote.

"The StoreWay NetApp Solution Center will enable our customers to understand and to evaluate the best storage solutions available on the market in line with their cost contraints, risk management policies and service level requirements."
Olivier Gaumont, Director Enterprise Servers & Storage
Bull Computing Solutions.

"The Bull teams have in-depth expertise, and the strength of our partnership has enabled us to position ourselves upstream in numerous projects. Confronted with the evolution of the Data Center, the StoreWay Netapp Solution Center is for us an indication of a highly value-added approach in the accompaniment of our customers."
Marc Montiel, General Manager NetApp France .

Demos at Storeway Solution Center

Standard Seminar Program
Participate in regular Solution Center seminars, free of charge and open to all , on major storage themes, on site or via remote connection by web seminar. See live demonstrations and exchange with storage specialists. The full programme is available on the StoreWay solution center website www.storewaysolutioncenter.com/netapp.

Custom Seminars
The StoreWay Solution Center can organize customized seminars, on site or remote on solutions adapted to your own specific needs.

Architecture Workshops
Discover the latest technologies and in depth-technical features through hand on workshops. Use the Solution Center as a place to exchange with StoreWay Excellence Center technical experts.

Proof of Concept, and Prototyping
Use the StoreWay Solution Center infrastructure and expertise to evaluate how new technologies are suited to your company, using your own data and applications

Market and Technology Briefings
Meet our consultants to understand storage market trends, as well as business and economic benefits of new storage solutions.

Expertise-Consultancy
Work with our consultants and experts to build a vision of your future storage infrastructure and the evolution of your existing environment.

Global Storage Solutions
Benefit from the cross-IT expertise present at Bull Grenoble to understand how your storage solution can be integrated with your IT infrastructure: servers, middleware and applications.

Reference storage architectures

NetApp FAS 2040 2U array

Xeon bi-core,
4GB mem with Data OnTap 8.0.1: 12 SAS Internal disks 450GB,
disk shelf 4243 including 12 SATA disks 1TB

NetApp FAS 3240 array - stretch Metrocluster

:2 controllers 3U,
16GB mem,
2GB NVRAM with Data OnTap 8.0.1,
2 disk shelf DS14 including 14 FC disks 450GB 15Krpm

1 Rack of 3 Novascale servers R460 F2 each including:

24Go RAM
Intel® Xeon® E5550, 2.66 Ghz, 8 M Cache, 6.40 GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT
Qlogic 2562 Dual Channel 8GB Optical Fibre Channel HBA PCIe
3 SAS internal disks 300GB. 3 additional SAS internal disks for the management server
2 Gigabit Ethernet switches, rackable and manageable type Linksys 24 ports
1 switch FC Brocade BR 300 16 ports

2 among the 3 servers are running VMware vSphere 4.1