Press Releases

June 30, 2008 . Bull extends the reach of enterprise data protection

June 16, 2008 . Bull acquires CSB Consulting - an IT services company based in Belgium and Luxembourg - continuing its dynamic growth in information technology services

June 12, 2008 . New IDC - Bull European user survey highlights the continuing struggle of IT organisations to cope with the economic impact and management issues of increasing volumes of data

June 10, 2008 . Broadband takes off: OnAir brings Highdeal and Bull on-board for its mobile telephony offer

June 10, 2008 . Bull launches the sixth initiative in its 7i program: "Favor exchanges" focused on the telecoms and media industries

June 4, 2008 . The United States Agency for International Development awards a consortium with Bull a $ 10 million IT services contract to modernize Egyptian tax administration

June 2, 2008 . Making the impossible possible - Cardiff's new High Performance Computer

May 27, 2008 . Bull and Access Commerce streamline client sales processes

May 19, 2008 . Bull and Oblicore Partner to Address Service Level Management Market

April 30, 2008 . Bull announces its first quarter 2008 revenue

April 22, 2008 . GENCI together with the CEA order a Bull NovaScale supercomputer to speed up innovation and fundamental research

April 9, 2008 . Latest advance in artificial intelligence: computer wins a game against a Go Master

April 8, 2008 . Bull eases the deployment of critical infrastructures in the world of Unix with the launch of a new high-end server

March 26, 2008 . Bull strengthens its Bio Data Center offering with a new NovaScale blade server

March 10, 2008 . Bull reduces the complexity and extends the scope of enterprise data protection and management with its new StoreWay Calypso software suite

March 3, 2008 . High-Performance Computing: a major challenge for society, and a strategic commitment from Bull

March 3, 2008 . Bull joins Climate Savers computing initiative

March 3, 2008 . Cardiff University chooses Bull to provide new supercomputer for advanced research computing

February 28, 2008 . Bull High-Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions: appointment of Fabio Gallo

February 27, 2008 . Bull introduces the all-in-one virtualization server solution

February 25, 2008 . AddressVision Inc., a Bull Group Subsidiary, Selected by Australia Post in Recognition Improvement Initiative

February 19, 2008 . Evidian Identity and Access Management Software expands market momentum in North America

February 15, 2008 . Bull announces its fourth quarter revenue and full year results for 2007

February 4, 2008 . French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) and Bull announce record performance for image search in very large-scale databases

January 30, 2008 . Bull launches the fifth initiative in its 7i program: "Managing knowledge capital"

January 16, 2008 . Bull announces the acquisition of its subsidiary Maine CI by Elco

December 12, 2007 . QualiPSo consortium organizes the first international conference on Open Source Software quality: "Fostering trust and quality of Open Source Software systems"

December 12, 2007 . OW2 releases JOnAS 5, a new-generation dynamic application platform for mission critical computing

December 11, 2007 . La Poste chooses Bull to modernize, consolidate and secure its IT production sites

December 10, 2007 . IBM and Bull expand relationship with new initiatives for the UNIX and Blade markets

December 6, 2007 . Bull and partners from SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION global competitiveness cluster announce launch of the POPS (PetaOperations Per Second) project

December 4, 2007 . Algérie Poste chooses Bull for the modernization of its IT systems

November 20, 2007 . Kabira and Bull Jointly Target the Fast-growing African Telecommunications Market

November 19, 2007 . Bull reinforces initiative for Data Centre efficiency

November 13, 2007 . Brazilian federal universities choose Bull supercomputers to host high-performance computing (HPC) applications for the "Brazil National System"

November 13, 2007 . Computer simulations unlock the mysteries of the Universe

October 19, 2007 . Bull announces its third quarter 2007 revenue

October 19, 2007 . Bull acquires Serviware, leader in High-Performance Computing solutions integration

October 16, 2007 . Bull to publish its third quarter 2007 revenue October 19th, 2007

October 16, 2007 . Bull simplifies performance management for virtualized infrastructures

October 9, 2007 . Bull launches its 'Bio Data Center' approach to reconcile performance and flexibility with sustainable development

October 3, 2007 . Bull's HPC solution optimizes Alcan's research capability

September 26, 2007 . Bull Evidian Positioned in Gartner Group's Leader Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On

September 25, 2007 . Bull launches data warehouse offering

September 21, 2007 . Bull optimizes the consolidation of Oracle® Databases in Linux® environments

September 17, 2007 . Barnsley MBC on target for 20% savings after first twelve months of joint ICT venture with Bull

September 13, 2007 . Social protection: the golden rules for successful personalization and consolidation projects

September 5, 2007 . Bull: performance, powerful consolidation and virtualization capabilities with the new server designed to simplify data center management

August 1, 2007 . Bull announces its results for the first six months of 2007
Sustained growth in the second quarter
EBIT in line with target

July 27, 2007 . Bull to publish its first half 2007 results on August 1, 2007

July 24, 2007 . Nottingham City Council supports better services and reduces carbon footprint with Bull blade server infrastructure

July 4, 2007 . Bull launches third initiative in its 7i program: 'facilitating decision-making'

June 26, 2007 . Bull and the University of Düsseldorf join forces to design the high-performance computing systems of the future

June 26, 2007 . Europe unites to foster HPC technologies with the launch of ParMA, an ITEA 2 project to exploit fully the power of multi-core architectures

June 26, 2007 . Bull and Platform Computing announce Worldwide Cooperation Agreement to optimize resource management in HPC clusters

June 26, 2007 . With IAM Suite 8, Evidian places identity and access management at the heart of business processes

June 25, 2007 . Bull chosen by the French government's financial information technology agency (AIFE) to supply infrastructure and security services for Chorus, its future financial management application

June 20, 2007 . Bull Evidian announces OpenMaster 8, the new release of its flagship service management platform

June 18, 2007 . The German federal scientific computing network - D-Grid - now features a Bull NovaScale® supercomputer

June 12, 2007 . Bull and AVL together help to reduce the effects of vehicle emissions

June 8, 2007 . Quadrics selects Bull to provide the aeronautics industry in Italy with large-scale simulation capabilities

June 8, 2007 . University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne chooses Bull NovaScale supercomputers to host its high-performance computing (HPC) applications

June 6, 2007 . Bull Appoints Jenny Newton as New UK and Ireland CEO

May 29, 2007 . Bull launches its latest initiative, to "accelerate innovation"

May 21, 2007 . Bull confirms its strategic repositioning and its ambition as European IT leader

May 2, 2007 . Bull announces breakthrough computing density and energy efficiency with its new HPC-designed NovaScale® server

April 27, 2007 . Integration of Bull's e-biscus with SAP NetWeaver® opens new horizons to Customs worldwide

April 25, 2007 . Bull announces its first quarter 2007 revenue

April 20, 2007 . Bull to publish its first quarter 2007 revenue on April 25, 2007

April 13, 2007 . Bull signs agreement with government of the Kingdom of Morocco to open a new services center

April 5, 2007 . Bull launches first initiative in its 7i program: Aligning information systems with business processes

April 3, 2007 . Bull and Telemac Form Strategic Partnership

March 20, 2007 . Bull and Miracle Machines enter into an OEM relationship to jointly address the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market in Singapore

March 19, 2007 . Bull announces the NovaScale® R620 Fault Tolerant server dedicated to Windows® applications

March 15, 2007 . Europe, Brazil and China unite to foster open source software to boost growth

March 13, 2007 . Bull launches its 7i program
Seven initiatives to help businesses benefit from an open world

March 12, 2007 . OW2 extends JOnAS project community, and launches the first Enterprise Edition of its flagship open source application server

March 6, 2007 . Bull NovaScale® Intensive server and Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 deliver a new price/performance record-setting TPC-H benchmark

March 1, 2007 . State of California selects Bull Services' Business Intelligence solution to help improve health care outcomes, reduce fraud and abuse in Medicaid program

February 15, 2007 . Bull announces its fourth quarter revenue and full year 2006 results

Confirmation of sustained growth in Services activities
Full year EBIT above target set in June 2006

February 7, 2007 . Bull to publish its fourth quarter revenue and full year 2006 results on February 15, 2007

February 5, 2007 . Bull, French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA), German National High Performance Computing Center (HLRS), Intel and Quadrics announce the creation of the TALOS alliance

January 30, 2007 . Bull and SpikeSource form strategic partnership

January 30, 2007 . Bull announces the launch of NovaForge, an innovative, collaborative software development platform based on Open Source

January 18, 2007 . Bull: Impact of the sale of Italian subsidiary to Eunics

January 10, 2007 . Bull announces two new single-socket NovaScale servers featuring quad-core Intel® Xeon® 3200 series processors

December 21, 2006 . Bull announces the acquisition of its Italian subsidiary by Eunics

December 14, 2006 . Benoît Hallez named as new Director of Bull's Storage business

December 11, 2006 . Bull to supply the most powerful civil supercomputer in France to the CCRT, the Center for Research and Technology Computing

December 7, 2006 . Bull modernizes Council's IT infrastructure in French département of Yvelines and consolidates its mainframe and Linux applications

December 7, 2006 . Bull announces two new NovaScale Universal servers integrating dual-core Intel® Xeon® 7100 series processors

December 7, 2006 . Bull NovaScale Universal servers integrate the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series processors

December 7, 2006 . The Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office chooses Bull to be at the forefront of the move to bring Spain's public sector services up-to-date

December 6, 2006 . SPORT, the free weekly sports magazine, selects AGARIK to host its myfreesport.fr web site

November 22, 2006 . Bull Evidian launches three innovative solutions for mobile computing user security

November 21, 2006 . Bull and JBoss form strategic partnership

November 21, 2006 . Agarik's TV Control Room - pivotal technology for video-to-mobile delivery - ensures the broadcast of 60 channels on SFR's Vodafone live! Portal

November 20, 2006 . 7 golden rules for Single Sign-on projects

November 16, 2006 . Bull offers the ObjectWeb Open Source community a BPEL process orchestration engine: Orchestra

November 14, 2006 . With Upstream Provisioning, Bull Evidian simplifies the implementation of enterprise-wide identity directories

November 14, 2006 . Bull advises French Biomedicine Agency as it upgrades its information systems to assume new medical responsibilities

November 9, 2006 . Microsoft and Bull put High-Performance Computing within reach

October 24, 2006 . Bull NovaScale® gets high grades at Erie, Pennsylvania School System

October 19, 2006 . Bull reports definitive first half results and third quarter revenue 2006

October 18, 2006 . Information technologies serving local government dynamism

October 18, 2006 . Bull, sponsor of the World eGov Forum in Paris

October 17, 2006 . Bull publishes a white paper "Security, an essential foundation for an open world"

October 10, 2006 . Bull Evidian and IDEALX form a commercial partnership focused on strong authentification and Enterprise Single Sign-On solutions

October 10, 2006 . Bull and ESI Group announce partnership to deliver industry solutions

October 5, 2006 . Bull Board member Jean-François Heitz named as Chairman of the Group's Audit Committee

October 2, 2006 . Bull verifies the newly discovered largest known prime number on NovaScale server

September 29, 2006 . The University of Manchester selects Bull to provide new supercomputer

September 28, 2006 . Bull acquires critical Internet infrastructure outsourcing company Agarik

September 25, 2006 . Bull unveils NovaScale blade servers boosted by the new Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 processor

September 19, 2006 . Bull appoints Peter Campbell Director of Investor Relations

September 14, 2006 . Bull appoints Philippe Miltin Vice-President of the Products and Systems Division

September 11, 2006 . Bull cooperates with the Registrar of the Paris Commercial Court to deliver on-line services.

July 27, 2006 . Provisional results for the first six months of 2006

July 18, 2006 . Bull doubles the performance of its high-end NovaScale servers with new Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors

July 10, 2006 . Partnership is the key to a successful future for Barnsley and Bull

June 28, 2006 . Bull NovaScale® systems run CD-adapco's STAR-CD simulation software

June 28, 2006 . French Atomic Energy Authority's Tera 10 supercomputer - developed with Bull NovaScale servers - is confirmed No.1 in Europe by TOP500's latest edition

June 28, 2006 . Bull combines density and performance with the launch of the NovaScale® 3005 series

June 28, 2006 . Bull announces NovaScale R600 and T800, the new series of its NovaScale Universal line

June 27, 2006 . National Oceanographic Centre boosts processing power by 60% with Bull

June 22, 2006 . Health insurer CNAMTS chooses Bull to support its Linux RedHat distributions

June 20, 2006 . Bull and Keeneo launch a European partnership in intelligent video surveillance

June 13, 2006 . Bull revises its objectives for 2006

May 16, 2006 . Bull attains Gold Certified Partner status in Microsoft Partner Program

May 4, 2006 . Bull and Basis Bay announce a major business and technology agreement

May 3, 2006 . Bull launches TrustWay® PPS, a new-generation USB key guaranteeing the security of mobile workstations

May 2, 2006 . Bull publishes its 10 golden rules for successful Open Source projects

April 26, 2006 . Bull announces revenue for Q1 2006

April 26, 2006 . Bull acquires specialist human resources IT services company HRBC

April 24, 2006 . With WiseGuard 3G, Bull Evidian launches the third generation of Single Sign-On tools

April 10, 2006 . Bull sets a new world performance record under Java benchmark, positioning Bull NovaScale servers as the reference platforms for large enterprise applications

April 3, 2006 . Bull appoints Laurent Poulain Group Purchasing Director

March 30, 2006 . Bull appoints Edgar Snoijink General Manager of the worldwide Maintenance and Customer Support activities

March 28, 2006 . Bull updates Belgian Federal Justice Ministry's IT infrastructure dedicated to tracking judicial cases

March 20, 2006 . Bull's second generation of NovaScale servers increases IT infrastructure flexibility and simplifies overall deployment

March 15, 2006 . Hassan Maad appointed as Managing Director of Bull Evidian

March 11, 2006 . Delivering the best available performance per watt in the industry, Bull unveils the NovaScale Blade 2320 at Cebit 2006

March 9, 2006 . Bull and SAS strengthen their partnership in business intelligence for ERP environments

March 8, 2006 . Bull and NEC confirm new industrial partnership arrangements in the IT systems security marketplace

March 7, 2006 . Pininfarina trusts Bull NovaScale® Servers to host its HPC applications

March 6, 2006 . Mandriva Club, ViaContext and LibreSource win ObjectWeb 2006 awards

March 2, 2006 . Bull acquires AMG.net, a consulting and integration company in advanced IT solutions for telcos

February 28, 2006 . SNCF implements its new Oracle procurement portal with Bull and CSC

February 22, 2006 . Full-year results 2005

February 15, 2006 . Bull announces 2005 consolidated revenue of 1,173 million euros

February 14, 2006 . Bull and Informatica sign technology and commercial agreement to supply comprehensive infrastructure solutions

February 2, 2006 . Oracle Sets World Record in Performance on Bull NovaScale® Server for a 32 CPU System with TPC-H One Terabyte Benchmark

January 19, 2006 . DataDirect Networks Sets a Video Streaming and Recording Performance Record on a Bull Novascale Server

January 16, 2006 . Bull and PowerLeader enter into an OEM relationship to jointly address the high-end server market in the People's Republic of China (PRC)

December 16, 2005 . Reverse Stock Split

December 13, 2005 . The French Post Office invests 147 Million euros and selects Bull and Lockheed Martin to supply the information system running its future mail sorting machines

November 23, 2005 . University of La Laguna, Tenerife, chooses Bull NovaScale servers to host HPC (high-performance computing) applications

November 17, 2005 . Bull and Scalable Systems partner to integrate Scalable Rocks with the Bull NovaScale platform

November 15, 2005 . Mutual Insurance company Mutuelle nationale des hospitaliers chooses Bull NovaScale 7000 to host its GCOS 7 and Linux applications

November 15, 2005 . Bull, Architect of an Open World, launches new NovaScale 7000 server family

November 14, 2005 . Bull NovaScale® Servers set a new record in cryptography

November 10, 2005 . Bull announces continued revenue growth and confirms second half 2005 outlook

November 7, 2005 . The Bull NovaScale® server sets a new price/performance record under the TPC-H benchmark running Microsoft SQL Server 2005

November 3, 2005 . Bull: "Architect of an Open World"

October 25, 2005 . Bull Achieves Gold Certified Partner Status in Microsoft Partner Program

October 13, 2005 . Bull and SAP strengthen partnership

October 5, 2005 . Aquitaine Regional Council adopts new Business Intelligence solution combining Bull, Oracle and Business Objects offerings to manage its activities

September 29, 2005 . Regional Council of Bouches-du-Rhône chooses Bull to design and deploy its Ordina 13 project

September 26, 2005 . Bull and NEC enter into a new collaboration model

September 20, 2005 . Total, France's biggest quoted company, implements Bull Evidian Single Sign-On (SSO)

September 20, 2005 . Bull Evidian acquires Enatel, specialized in enterprise single sign-on (E SSO)

September 19, 2005 . Bull is 'Back in business'

September 14, 2005 . Bull helps Belgian National Register to renew its IT equipment

September 13, 2005 . Bull and HCL enter into strategic partnership

September 9, 2005 . Chunghwa Telecom, N°1 Telco in Taiwan, has selected Bull NovaScale blade servers running Linux®

July 22, 2005 . Results for the first six months of 2005

July 6, 2005 . Bull NovaScale® 5160 server sets a record breaking price/performance under the TPC-H benchmark running an early version of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005

July 1, 2005 . Bull and Metilinx partner on infrastructure optimization and consolidation

July 1, 2005 . Micro Focus and Bull pursue their partnership for the distribution of Micro Focus Cobol solutions

June 29, 2005 . £10 million digital network boost for scottish schools

June 22, 2005 . Quadrics and Bull demonstrate exceptional performance on three-rail clusters

June 21, 2005 . Bull and Fluent announce partnership to deliver Computational Fluid Dynamics solutions in the HPC market

June 21, 2005 . The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) achieves new ocean simulation results using Bull's high performance computing solution

June 21, 2005 . Oracle Sets World Record Performance on Bull NovaScale® 5160 server for a 16 CPU System on Windows with TPC-H One Terabyte Benchmark

June 13, 2005 . Matthew Foxton is appointed Communications Director of Bull

June 9, 2005 . Guy Gautron is appointed Chief Information Officer of Bull and Director of Real Estate and General Services

June 7, 2005 . Bull NovaScale® 5160 server running an early version of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 performs 12 865.4 QphH under the TPC-H benchmark at 1000 GB

May 26, 2005 . Philippe Lederman is appointed Chief Financial Officer of Bull

May 24, 2005 . Bull Evidian announces its AccessMaster 7.0 software suite for Identity and Access Management

May 24, 2005 . Bull Evidian launches "IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT NOW>" an initiative to boost the deployment of identity and access management in large organizations

May 20, 2005 . Bull announces NovaScale® 5085 and 6085 eight processor ultra compact servers

May 20, 2005 . SWsoft and Bull announce a worldwide agreement to resell the Virtuozzo Server Virtualization Software on Bull's Intel®-based servers

May 18, 2005 . A first in France in the field of embedded medical computing

May 12, 2005 . Bull: 1st Quarter 2005 Revenue and 2005 Action Plan

April 28, 2005 . Bull announces the NovaScale® 9162 and 9322 servers

April 26, 2005 . BULL Evidian Introduces OpenMaster 7.0

April 14, 2005 . Arkoon & Bull : alliance in firewalls

April 5, 2005 . Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet joins Bull as Managing Director of the International Telco Business Unit

March 24, 2005 . Michel Lepert is appointed General Manager of the Products and Systems activities

March 14, 2005 . Jean-Pierre Barbéris joins Bull as General Manager of the services activities.

February 11, 2005 . Temporary modification of Bull Oceane bonds parity conversion (ISIN Code FR0000181034)

February 11, 2005 . Bull : 2004 results

February 8, 2005 . Bull announces Escala Essentials, the turnkey Unix infrastructure solutions, based on the Escala AIX Power 5 servers

February 8, 2005 . Bull enhances the entry-level of its Escala AIX / Power 5 technology-based servers

February 4, 2005 . Bull announces the NovaScale 2021 Blade server

February 4, 2005 . Dassault-Aviation chooses Bull NovaScale® servers to host its High Performance Computing applications

January 31, 2005 . Oceanes Bond holders General Meeting (ISIN Code: FR0000181034)

January 31, 2005 . Seznam chooses Bull NovaScale® blade servers

January 19, 2005 . Finalisation of Bull recapitalisation process

January 12, 2005 . Bull Evidian and Oracle strengthen partnership on Identity and Access Management