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Business Intelligence - Databases - Middleware

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.

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.

Cloud computing

LiberTP: Upgrade your transaction processing applications to Java EE This white paper reviews the possibilities available to IT divisions to modernize their application infrastructures. It concentrates on one key area: the upgrading of transaction environments from the Unix world – for instance the Oracle Tuxedo environment – to Java EE platforms

Le cloud by Bull The cloud: revolution or evolution? Explained: the 4 big myths and the 4 big challenges of the cloud 8 golden rules From the IT cloud to the business cloud Le cloud by Bull: a pragmatic approach for a smooth transition to the enterprise cloud

IDC white paper In its latest dedicated survey, carried out in 2011, IDC showed that a large proportion of companies adopted or are planning to adopt Cloud as a delivery model for parts of their IT. This IDC executive brief presents an overview of the Cloud's market maturity and, through case studies, discusses the issues and impacts of a private Cloud initiative, before finally putting forward a series of recommendations for a Cloud roadmap.

Services-oriented infrastructures In order to ensure that the Cloud is a real driver for value-creation – rather than just another layer of complexity – IT Departments must start proactively preparing for it now: seeing it just as much as another new option that they can include in their portfolios of technologies and services, as a competitor whose agility, speed and ease-of-use they have to measure up to. This white paper is designed to guide you in this transformation, recommending short and medium-term actions you can take to achieve rapid benefits.

Data Center - Architecture - Platforms - OS - Hardware

Bull Enterprise Servers: the green life-cycle in practice The best way to address the needs of today’s data center is by providing energy efficient solutions, while keeping the operating expenditure under control. Discover in this white paper how Bull ensures power efficiency and environmentally friendly practices throughout the product’s entire lifespan.

Improve the energy-efficiency of your Data Center with novascale bullion servers Bull places energy performance at the heart of its strategy: the Bio Data Center was introduced in 2007 with the three-fold target of reducing energy consumption and the carbon footprint, optimizing topology and ensuring high service levels within the Data Center. Distributed and poorly utilized servers are power hogs in your Datacenter. novascale bullion is built on an architecture designed from the ground up to provide optimized virtualization and energy saving capabilities.

With novascale bullion, optimize your critical applications by pushing back the limits of virtualization This document outlines how novascale bullion servers, associated with VMware solutions, enable IT departments to virtualize the enterprise critical applications, to provide flexibility, availability, performance and energy efficiency.

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”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Data protection - Consolidation - High Availability

IDC white paper Industry analysts IDC give their assessment of x86 infrastructure rationalisation, and makes an impartial assessment of the virtualisation issues. IDC also reviews the new VMBox offering, from the solution architecture to its software platform and associated services offerings.

High Availability of Oracle databases High Availability of Oracle databases Reduce your costs thanks to the high availability of Oracle databases on Bull Escala servers. You will be able to make the most of Bull Escala breakthrough technologies combined with Oracle DB 11gR2 functionalities and infrastructure services enabling an optimal implementation.

High Availability for Unix Servers How the advanced virtualization functionalities of Bull Escala servers associated with Bull high availability software, such as Bull ARF, allow any company to make its critical applications highly available. The proposed solutions, either on site or at a backup site, are ergonomically designed with ease-of-maintenence and cost controls in mind.

Executive Insight - Industry sector

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.

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.

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

Executive Insight - Technology

IDC white paper - HPC IDC presents Bull strategy in the HPC market and the bullx range with in deep details of its hardware architecture, software suite and green features.

IDC white paper - x86 Servers This White Paper focuses on customer requirements and market demand for the high-end or scalable 4- socket and above x86 server segment. It details European IT departments' changing server requirements and it provides an overview of Bull new line of scalable x86 high-end servers branded novascale bullion.

IDC White-Paper - System Manager This White Book details the main stakes associated to the operational management of IT infrastructure. The important contribution of Bull System Manager to the optimization of IT infrastructure exploitation is the object of a detailed analysis by IDC.

Better, Faster and Cheaper: Understanding the Dynamics of Information Management Costs As data volumes rise and retention periods increase, the appearance of “better, faster and cheaper” storage infrastructure seems like an all-encompassing solution to control IT manager’s burgeoning storage costs. In this paper, we examine four dynamic forces that together shape storage costs.

Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers This free white-paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

Information system consolidation: the 10 golden rules for successful data center optimisation Discover challenges, technologies and best practice along with experts' interviews.

High Performance Computing

Supercomputers: at the frontiers of Extreme Computing New horizons / Major Challenges / The future: exascale computing. This special edition includes an editorial by Ph. Vannier, Chairman and CEO of Bull, CEA's and GENCI's responsibles interviews and testimonies of world-renowned specialists in simulation and HPC applications in various domains.

IDC opinion: Bull's strategy for HPC leadership IDC is seeing more HPC sites seriously evaluating, and in some cases already employing, HPC outsourcing as a way to save money on internal staffing and other data center costs. Bull is positioned well to exploit the expected growth of HPC outsourcing, especially as more sites turn to public cloud computing services for some or all of their HPC workload needs.

Graphical accelerators: the future of Extreme Computing This document details the advances in Extreme Computing and presents new uses of GP-GPU. Bull presents its support to these new uses with a unique solution based on bullx B505, combining both native GP-GPU and CPU to better exploit the potential application-level acceleration of the GPU.

mobull, Bull's mobile data center mobull containers offer an alternative to major investments in buildings and resolve many regulatory constraints. Their flexibility provides unique transportation and implementation solutions, both inside and outside buildings: electricity, water supplies and a small area in a car park are all they need!

Open Source

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.

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

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.

Security

PCI-DSS in 5 points This opinion expert is a synthesis of the PCI-DSS certification which includes the following points: - The aims of PCI-DSS - Business data targeted by PCI-DSS - Technical perimeter of a PCI-DSS certification - How to achieve a PCI-DSS certification - Where is PCI-DSS within ISS

Five key points for a successful PKI project Deploying a PKI business, whatever the size of it, does not improvise. Before the initialization of Certification Authorities responsible for issuing and distributing certificates to users, there are some organizational aspects that should be considered (French version)

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?

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.

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

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.

Storage - Backup

Deduplication and Data Backup: Architecture, Techniques and Use Cases To meet the technical and economic challenges presented by the continual growth of backup data volumes, several approaches are possible. Amongst these, deduplication offers the most interesting perspectives, not only in terms of architecture, but also in terms of Return on Investment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Telco - Mobility - VoIP

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