Bullion ranked as the world's fastest VMware server

Paris, February  18, 2011 -

Bull's novascale bullion server, running under VMware, has just been ranked as the fastest in the world according to the international SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark.

Supporting 168 virtual machines (VMs) on a single server, bullion has proved itself to be more than twice as powerful as its nearest competitor, and even more efficient, with fewer disks and less memory.

The SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark is used to evaluate the overall performance of servers used in the consolidation of virtualized machines. To do this, SPECvirt_sc2010 measures the end-to-end performance of all the infrastructure elements involved.

The results of this benchmark clearly demonstrates bullion's extreme qualities of robustness and power, positioning it as the current 'one to beat' when it comes to virtualized environments running under VMware, the market leader. The test also features extremely high standards in terms of service quality, and is now considered to the most comprehensive way of measuring the overall quality of virtualization platforms.

The bullion server was specifically designed by Bull to support the virtualization of critical enterprise applications. The world's first system to natively integrate VMware technology, novascale bullion makes it possible to run multiple critical applications in parallel, on a single machine.

Taken together, these characteristics mean that bullion is the ideal platform for building 'Private Cloud' type computing infrastructures.

For more information:

SPECvirt_sc2010 Web site: www.spec.org/virt_sc2010
Results of the bullion benchmark: www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results/specvirt_sc2010_perf.html

About Bull

Bull is a leader in secure mission-critical digital systems. The Group is dedicated to developing and implementing solutions where computing power and security serve to optimize its customers' information systems, to support their business.

Bull operates in high added-value markets including computer simulation, Cloud computing and 'computing power plants', outsourcing and security.

Currently Bull employs around 9,000 people across more than 50 countries, with over 700 staff totally focused on R&D. In 2011, Bull recorded revenues of €1.3 billion.

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