APPLICATIONS

Bull announced that it has reinforced its current service capabilities in the areas of infrastructure virtualization, optimization and consolidation with MetiLinx solutions, enabling customers to make better use of their deployed technology assets. The services are already being offered in France, and will be progressively available through Bull subsidiaries in more than 90 countries worldwide. These service offerings are part of a multi-year agreement between the two companies, whereby Bull will embed MetiLinx technologies into customized solutions. "Our partnership with MetiLinx will enhance our service offerings while assisting our customers in leveraging their existing IT assets. It will also provide Bull with flexibility for additional solutions in areas such as high performance computing and continuous data availability, key areas of growth for Bull," said Jean-Pierre Barberis, General Manager of Services. "We are extremely pleased to have been selected by Bull as their strategic partner in this initiative. The combination of Bull's leading-edge hardware, software and services with MetiLinx's powerful Infrastructure and Database suites will provide our customers with the ability to take their organizations to the next level of effectiveness," said Stephen Richards, CEO of MetiLinx. Bull is currently offering packages that improve the efficiencies of customers' IT infrastructures such as: Asset optimization -- provides an overview snapshot of a company's current environment via auto-discovery methods, then focuses on identifying disconnects between business processes and actual IT system performance. This is normally followed by consolidation and/or optimization solutions. System optimization and virtualization -- Companies are searching for ways to reduce costs and alleviate the need to make new capital investments. IT organizations are tasked with trying to squeeze more processing power out of existing systems without affecting current business operations. One popular strategy is to use virtualization technologies to enable greater processing on fewer servers. System and application metering -- delivers a simplified utilization measurement solution that allows companies to monitor systems and applications to determine machine load and usage trends. Through reporting trends and simplified correlations of system utilization, metering enables better forecasting of future capacity needs. Continuous data protection -- provides software replication that offers a noninvasive, platform-independent solution that maintains online replication and synchronization of data across WAN/LAN frameworks. The framework also enables the real-time recovery and synchronization of data on a network from other database(s) within the CDP framework.