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Telco - Mobility - VoIP |
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Perspective on Telecommunications & Media
Innovative services beyond convergence, Enterprise data and voice services, mobile services for the enterprise (Source IDATE) - Combining agility and robustness in telecoms by Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet - Customer testimonials: Groupe France Telecom, SFR, Wana, Orange Poland, O Boticario Brazil |
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Open Source |
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The Open Source revolution: towards a new forge for IT infrastructures
The IT world is going through a crucial transformation. For business, this revolution offers new alternatives when it comes to the development of their IT strategies. |
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Software factories: towards an industrial revolution in application development
The enterprise is at the heart of a revolutionary change. The new rules of the game: globalization, increased focus, networked development. This presents organizations with a great opportunity and also a huge challenge. |
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Forrester/Bull study
An exclusive study shows Open Source Becomes the Hidden Backbone of The Software Industry - Beyond Cost reduction, the Open Source paradigm embraces an even more important long-term benefit: a more innovative and flexible IT shop that can rapidly seize new opportunities - The Spirit Of Open Source Emerges Inside Large Corporations |
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Data protection - Consolidation - High Availability |
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Virtualisation and consolidation: simplified infrastructures and lower administration complexity
Virtualisation can significantly drive down TCO and infrastructure complexity. Discover the advantages of advanced virtualisation provided on the Bull Escala AIX server range |
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How to simplify heterogeneous server and storage architectures
What is the contribution of each element to the success of heterogeneous server and storage consolidation projects ? Escala servers, Veritas Storage solution, Bull Unify methodology. |
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Escala and Oracle 10g: Data consolidation
Focus on data consolidation, introduction to a number of database consolidation scenarii and analysis of the very latest Oracle databases and Bull Escala server technologies.
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Data Center - Architecture - Platforms - OS - Hardware |
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Bull Escala: Scalability & High Availability for Business Critical Environments
UNIX on RISC servers remains the computing foundation for many customers. This document presents how to address those needs, Bull's Escala product line delivers the scalable performance of POWER processors running the robust AIX UNIX operating system |
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CRM Architecture: why CRM flexibility will impact your success
With concrete examples, you will learn more about the CRM architecture and the successful integration of Pivotal CRM on Bull servers.
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Performance Management : Outlining the advantages of virtualization
Leverage the tangible benefits of virtualised servers with an efficient performance management.
Increase and maintain the performance of virtual system environments.
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Best practices in establishing a more flexible Data Center
To discover Bull’s new approach for the Data Center, download the document “Bio Data Center, Statement of Direction” |
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Simplifying the deployment of blade servers
Solutions designed to ease the installation, business continuity and deployment of bull blade servers in order to cut down the Total Cost of Ownership of the Data Center. |
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Virtualization solutions
Organizations are seeking a new approach that will give users easier, more secure access to all the information they require while simplifying the working environment for IT teams.
This white paper explains how to meet this challenge through virtualization solutions. |
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High Performance Computing |
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Accelerate innovation through High Performance Computing
A remarkable survey on High Performance Computing achievements in Europe.
This special issue gathers fascinating testimonies on research projects led by scientists and by industrial companies using the existing European supercomputers, such as TERA-10, a world-class supercomputer developed in Europe - by Bull, based on Intel processors - for the French Atomic Energy Agency. These projects cover such diverse areas as aerodynamics, oncology, astrophysics, petroleum development, prion research... |
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A Hybrid OS Cluster Solution
The choice of an operating system (OS) for a high performance computing (HPC) cluster is a critical decision for IT departments. The goal of this paper is to show that simple techniques are available today to optimize the return on investment by making that choice unnecessary, and keeping the HPC infrastructure versatile and flexible.
This paper introduces Hybrid Operating System Clusters (HOSC). An HOSC is an HPC cluster that can run several OS’s simultaneously. |
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Business Intelligence - Databases - Middleware |
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SAP Infrastructures: Escala virtualisation functions united with Bull's integration expertise
The benefits of SAP infrastructure consolidation on Bull Escala servers offer a flexible and easy to maintain solution. The combination of Escala with SAP makes it a perfect architecture to reduce the TCO. |
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Escala and Oracle 10g: a virtualized infrastructure
To learn more about the latest Oracle 10g functionalities as well as the advanced virtualisation features on Bull Escala servers in order to allow deployment and consolidation of large databases. |
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Escala and Informix IDS V10.0
This document presents data consolidation and reviews the latest technologies in the field of Informix databases. The deployment of IDS V10 on Bull Escala servers makes it an ideal transactional platform. |
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Performance and Flexibility of SAS®9 with Bull Escala™
Using concrete examples based on Escala servers, StoreWay storage solutions and SAS®9, you will learn more about the contribution of each element to the success of a Business Intelligence project |
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Unified Business Intelligence: better knowledge for better decision-making
Faced with the explosion in the amount of data, the challenge is to establish a single, unified BI solution that allows information to be correlated and analyzed to the benefit of everyone. |
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Design Choices in Data Warehousing - Lessons from DATAllegro v3
MPP data warehouse appliances are among the most powerful IT systems around. This paper illustrates issues in data warehouse appliance design. |
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Index-Light MPP Data Warehousing
A single RDBMS can perform a broad variety of duties. But for complex data warehousing, a special-purpose product can greatly outperform general-purpose systems. |
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Defining Business Metrics That Matter: Improving Business Results with High-Performance BI
Purpose-built data warehouse appliances provide greater levels of price/performance for appropriate applications. |
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The truth about data warehouse appliances
This white paper dismisses those question marks that are irrelevant to the data warehousing, and highlights any genuine issues that need to be addressed. |
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The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances
Analyzing the market dynamics to play out that, in the end, will benefit data warehouse owners |
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Data Warehouse Parallel Server Tech notes
The first generation of data warehouse appliances disrupted the data warehouse market with affordable high performance achieved by using proprietary hardware. Second generation standards-based data warehouse appliances are certain to be even more disruptive |
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Storage - Backup |
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Protecting the data assets of the organization with scalable solutions
This document presents a large range of scalable, adapted data protection solutions. |
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Sharing enterprise information with networked storage solutions
This document presents the latest technologies in the network storage area. |
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Bull's Systems Integration Capabilities within a Storage Environment
This white paper examines the market trends that have contributed to the information explosion, the technical considerations involved in designing integrated storage systems, and the benefits of Bull's products and services. |
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Extended Enterprise Storage Networks: best practices in distributed storage networks
This paper explores technically robust and economic solutions for extending existing storage networks to meet new business challenges. |
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Don't live in fear for your data: the 7 golden rules for data protection
This IDC / Bull paper presents how new products and technologies can be harnessed alongside existing backup to radically improve data protection within an overall data protection framework, enabling evolution rather than revolution.
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Reasons to review data protection and business continuity implementation
This white paper explores a number of recent evolutions of data protection technologies, analyses benefits, and compares alternative implementation strategies. StoreWay’s global information protection strategy, with a combined preventive and remedial approach is briefly introduced. Finally, this paper illustrates how the Bull StoreWay product portfolio for data protection allows Bull customers to benefit from recent technology evolutions.
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Optimising Storage: Issues, Difficulties and Winning Strategies of European Companies
This White Paper, written and published by IDC on the initiative of Bull, highlights the storage issues that major European companies are facing and the solutions they are using to deal with them. |
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VTL: an answer to backup and recovery challenges.
This document analyzes the various technologies for disk backup virtualization and introduces the Bull StoreWay Virtuo solution, a virtual tape library (VTL) for mainframe and open environments. |
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The StoreWay DPA Data Protection Appliance
Data protection is not only a concern for Data Centres. More and more valuable enterprise data resides in servers hosted in small or mid-size remote or branch offices but also on end user workstations.
This white paper describes the backup and restore issues faced within a Remote Office - Branch Office (ROBO) environment and how StoreWay DPA can help solve them. |
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Security |
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Towards agile IT security
Information systems have never been so vital. And they have never had to face so many threats. In today’s open world, putting in place a strong IT security policy has become an
unavoidable challenge. But does that really mean transforming the enterprise into a fortress and erecting ever more barriers around it? How do you ensure that security is no longer a constraint, but a real driver for business development and agility? |
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BNTng EMV - CRYPT2Pay white paper
CRYPT2Pay is a high-performance encryption product for banks, designed to secure bank transactions using stripe cards and smart cards for withdrawals, payments, or cardholder authentication for e-commerce and home banking operations. |
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Virtual Private Networks: challenges in creating and managing Secure VPN
Business and technical requirements to implement and manage E-business application security over any Internet/Intranet/Extranet infrastructure |
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Mobility and security: the danger is over?
With globull, Bull as ‘Architect of an Open World’ is introducing a secure, new-generation mobility solution, which secures, liberates and revolutionizes the mobility of the enterprise. An all-in-one product weighing in at just 122g. |
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Executive Insight - Industry sector |
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E-government, driving the modernisation of public services
Towards a new relationship with citizens and business. Discover the study insights and e-government experts’ testimonials. |
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Information technology serving local government dynamism
Local authorities are undertaking major programs to stimulate development in their areas. The challenges are numerous and involve radically overhauling business processes and job roles, opening up information systems and breaking down the barriers |
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Social protection: personalization and performance
Most countries are transforming their social protection systems to help them adapt to these economic, social and societal revolutions with key priorities of social cohesion and spending control. |
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Executive Insight - Technology |
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Information system consolidation: the 10 golden rules for successful data center optimisation
Discover challenges, technologies and best practice along with experts' interviews. |
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