Bull awarded for "best Private Cloud project"

Bull's cloud project was distinguished for the pre-integration between hardware and software to leverage all the vCloud suite functionalities and to provide a highly secure private cloud infrastructure

Paris, December  3, 2012 -

Bull has been recognized the best Private Cloud project at the TechTarget-VMworld User Europe Awards ceremony with bullion Cloud Platform, a converged infrastructure dedicated to private cloud, co-developed with VMware, EMC and Brocade. Bull was one of the 6 European IT winner projects focusing on innovation, performance, costs improvement provided by Bull's cloud platform to optimize the overall business process and efficiency.

A panel of expert judges from the fields of cloud and virtualisation selected Bull's cloud project for the quality of its pre-integration between hardware and software to leverage all the vCloud suite functionalities as well as the integration with security products to provide a highly secure private cloud infrastructure.

Three bullion cloud platform configurations have been designed by Bull labs to meet the needs of development teams as well as those related to the implementation of mission-critical applications. Each configuration is pre-defined, optimized, validated and pre-packaged.

bullion Cloud Platform combines Bull's critical application server platform with EMC VNX storage and Brocade VDX switches, pre integrated with VMware vCloud Director and Network & Security products.

The objective is a rapid and risk-free deployment that precisely answers to Enterprise's needs, enabling 300 to 700 VMs running in a secure and cost optimize infrastructure, leveraging Bull's high end server bullion, the most powerful x86 business server in the market.

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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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