Bull Atos IT Solutions And Services

Bull is the European IT company which is engaged in development of computing solutions from 1930th. The headquarters of Bull is based in France, in the suburb of Paris.

Products & Services

One of key activities of the company is development and delivery of the server hardware. The line of server solutions of Bull includes the corporate Escala servers on UNIX and the bullion servers with architecture of x86,a mainframe servers of GCOS and the solution for high-performance computing of bullx. Regarding high-performance computing Bull is the only European supplier who is successfully competing in the region with world vendors.

In addition to the Bull servers also proposes solutions on information security and renders the whole range of services - from complex integration to cloud services.

The solutions bullion and Escala are expected a wide range of customers of the Mission Critical systems. Servers of the bullion family are the fastest corporate servers of x86 in the world. They are created for virtualization and work in a private cloud, have the built-in service of cyber security with the system of continuous action. The Escala servers are developed so that to provide adaptability of a system of the enterprise under the changing requirements. They are suitable for the projects connected with processing of Big Data and analytics and also the ERP systems requiring high scalability and uninterrupted providing services.

Business in Russia

2017

Department of Big Data and security of Atos in Moscow

On October 16 Atos announced opening of department of Big Data and security which will specialize in providing solutions in spheres of Big Data, supercomputers and cyber security. The solutions proposed by department will be available in Bull labs laboratory where partners, integrators and customers will be able to test them. The laboratory was open based on the Russian office Atos in Moscow in October, 2016 within the action for a case of the 95 anniversary of the Bull brand.

Localization of servers of the Bull brand

The French company Atos localizes in Russia production of the servers of the Bull brand with architecture of x86. As the partner of transnational integrator in our country the domestic company "NPP Mayak" created in 2015 which on own and leased production capacities will begin to stamp case shaped parts for servers will act and to print payments for the modules of a trusted boot providing use in French "iron" only of the entrusted software^[1].

The commercial director of Beacon Oleg Belov who earlier for many years worked in Cisco assured CNews that the mentioned modules created by company "from scratch" in combination with software which is improved now for detection of unauthorized access and also close interaction with Atos regarding providing technical documentation and necessary licenses should allow to reach the so-called level of localization of production in Russia over 60%. It, in turn, will allow Minpromtorg to license servers which will be issued under the OKA Beacon brand as the Russian products.

By Belov's estimates, during 2018. "Beacon" will be able to implement the Bull servers which became Russian for the amount about 700 million rubles.

Atos and Beacon signed the official agreement about cooperation on September 19, 2017, in the test mode the Russian company already experimented with adaptation of the French servers, and they already have the first user. The Scientific and test institute of the systems of ensuring complex security (Scientific Research Institute SOKB) which placed partially localized servers in the commercial DPC became it.

Localization will concern a server line of Bull — Bullion S. It consists of four models. All of them use processors of the Intel Xeon E7 v4 family with different number of cores. S2 model with configuration in 3 "units" contains 2 processors with number of cores to 48 and flows up to 96. S4 model with configuration includes from 2 to 4 processors with number of cores to 96 in 6 "units" and flows up to 192. At S8 with configuration in 12 "units" from 2 to 8 processors with number of cores to 192 and flows to 384. At last, at S16 with configuration in 24 "units" from 2 to 16 processors with number of cores to 384 and flows to 768. In all modifications about 60 MB of the general a cache memory are provided.

2016

Demonstration laboratory for partners

In October of Bull, the trademark of Atos company, celebrated the 95 anniversary of a brand. Within the action specialists of the company unrolled based on the Russian office Atos hi-tech laboratory Bull labs where partners, integrators and customers tested the solutions bullion and Escala available now and in Russia.

At an opening stage in laboratory the newest solutions of Bull – the bullion and Escala servers are available to testing. Further emergence of solutions in the field of Supercomputers (bullx, sequana) and cyber security is planned (Evidian, DirX Directory, crypt2pay, Trustway netHSM and Trustway VPN.)

The companies became partners of an action Merlion Netwell NetApp Unify.

The bullion and Escala server platforms which entered in March the Russian market already proved as reliable solutions for segment high-end. It gave the international Atos project as an example and Siemens, Bull implemented in June of this year by means of the equipment. The project included migration with SAP ERP on SAP S/4HANA and covered 100 thousand employees at different offices Siemens, including Russian. In global cloud DPC the companies were unrolled more than 500 bullion servers with SAP HANA and process of migration continues. Already now amount of RAM exceeded 1 Petabyte of data.

In Russia Bull is focused on supply of equipment to the companies working in industrial production, telecommunications, the transport industry, media and retail.

Bull enters the Russian market again

In March, 2016 the French integrator Atos announced an output to the Russian market of Bull company which it purchased in 2014. According to the CEO of the Russian division of Atos Edgars Puzo, historically it is already the third time when Bull is brought to the Russian market. He preferred not to comment on the previous activity of the company in the country as "then Bull had other shareholders who probably set other purposes at entry into the market". At present it is an output of the Bull brand for the Russian market within Atos corporation, he noted.

Earlier in Bull told that their company did project business in the USSR. In 1978 Bull for the first time opened representation in Moscow, declared in the company. Creation of an information system of the Federal Tax Police Service of the Russian Federation was one of the most significant projects of the company in Russia.

At the initial stage of a new milestone of presence in the Russian market the bullion and Escala server platforms expected high-end a segment are offered local customers. Atos says that servers Bull Escala with processors Power8 – result of more than 20 years' cooperation of page IBM. They are suitable for consolidation of crucial databases (especially in environments Oracle), the projects connected with processing Big Data and analytics and also systems ERP.

In turn, servers of the bullion family are positioned as a technology alternative for systems SPARC and HP-UX at inexpensive software. They support the large volume of memory — up to 24 TB — and technology In-Memory for processing of Big Data directly in RAM in real time, for example, based on the platform SAP HANA. Based on the bullion servers one of the world's largest implementations SAP of HANA covering all divisions Siemens from more than 100 thousand employees is developed.

Edgar Puzo told TAdviser what in a HPC segment (high performance computing, high-performance computing) in which Bull successfully competes with world vendors in Europe, in Russia the company does not plan yet.

"We see the market very segmented. HPC in Russia is, mainly, a public sector, including, that its part which is closed for the foreign companies in principle and also education. We foreign company. There is an import substitution, and under this wave we cannot make many things as foreign vendor. What remains – the free sector – there we now and we see the advantages", - he noted in a conversation with TAdviser.

Atos is going to build the classical sales channel of the products Bull at which there are distributors and resellers in Russia. At the time of start of sales by distributors of the Bull servers in Russia the companies act Merlion and Netwell.

Saying about why the company decided to be engaged in sales of Bull in Russia right now, Edgars Puzo told TAdviser that Atos purchases the new companies and consistently develops business in the purchased directions. Russia for Atos is the strategic market, despite an economic situation, therefore an output to this market of the new products – a part of strategy. Besides, when everything goes well and other companies actively invest in business development, it is more difficult to work at the market, Puzo considers. During the crisis period, according to him, many already existing players of the market reinterpret the provision that gives more opportunities for the new companies.

The CEO of Atos in Russia also told TAdviser that in connection with features of the current economic and political situation in Russia, a course towards import substitution, his company tries to be localized as much as possible here. It concerns also the products Bull: in plans of Atos – to localize production of servers. According to Edgars Puzo, as of the beginning of 2016 Atos conducts negotiations with a number of the companies on adjusting OEM production of the Bull servers in Russia. He preferred not to specify names of these companies before signing of the contracts.

1995: Contract with Federal tax police of Russia

The contract with Federal service tax police of Russia became the largest contract for Bull in 1995 in the field of system integration ^[2]. "The transaction of year" of $50 million provided automation of state structure which number of employees at that time exceeded 100 thousand people.

Under the terms of the contract, 89 regional governments of tax police should be integrated by a global computer network using 100 servers. 3 thousand personal computers in managements are provided to be connected in local networks using 600 servers.

The contract was expected 2.5 years. During this term it was supposed to make delivery and equipment installation, to develop software and also to provide training of staff of the Federal Tax Police Service of Russia.

History

2016

2015

As of the end of 2015 in division of Bull about 9.5 thousand employees work. The Bull trademark is provided in more than 50 countries worldwide.

2014: Atos purchased Bull

In 2014 the French system integrator Atos SE purchased Bull for 620 million euros. This absorption is interesting to Atos in terms of development in a segment of high-performance computing, building supercomputers under the Bull brand which proved in this market. The main purpose of the transaction — to receive security technologies using which Atos was going to strengthen considerably positions in a segment of "cloud" calculations and to become the second in value provider of "cloud" services in Western Europe after Amazon Web Services, having pushed aside Microsoft and IBM.

1952: Lamp Bull Gamma 3 computer

Before you lamp Bull Gamma 3 computer of 1952 of release. It had 400 lamps and at that time was considered as quite compact.

1921

In 1921 Fredrik Boole, "the Norwegian father of the information equipment", developed the program computer, having laid the foundation for the history Bull.

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