Bull launched its new generation of Escala® servers, designed specifically to run organization departmental and business-critical applications. The three new models in the range actively enhance Bull’s Bio Data Center™ approach by delivering four times as much power for the same energy consumption. They also demonstrate Bull’s commitment to make available technologies that improve the energy efficiency of Data Centers, allowing them to reduce their carbon footprint while at the same time optimizing performance.
The new generation of servers launched today consists of an entry-level Escala server and two mid-range servers, all based on POWER7TM technology. The mid-range servers also benefit from power-on-demand functionality for the processors and memory, enabling large-scale Data Centers to significantly optimize their costs. As with all the servers in the Escala family, the new models feature powerful virtualization functions.
Energy consumption under control, with a step-change in performance
Part of a proactive approach to sustainable development, the new-generation Escala servers feature numerous characteristics designed to reduce their carbon footprint. These include a four-fold increase in performance for the same energy consumption, made possible by using an architecture based on four times as many processing cores as the previous generation of machines. In addition, the new Escala E5-700 model is designed in particular to meet the 80 PLUS Gold standard, which means that at least 88% of the energy coming through the power supplies is actually used by the server.
“With the launch of the new generation of Escala servers, Bull is actively continuing its strategy of Data Center optimization and intelligent energy management in a global and sustainable approach to IT infrastructures,” said Olivier Gaumont, Director of Bull’s Enterprise Server Business Unit.
From Green Computing to ultra high-availability: a comprehensive services offering
The new Escala servers are supported by a comprehensive range of infrastructure services, designed to help organizations incorporate the new systems into their IT infrastructures in an optimum way.
Most notably, these services include specific offerings covering energy audits, virtualization, business continuity and high-availability services (the latter through Bull’s HA999 offering), delivered by Bull experts who are heavily involved in specifying virtualization and features in IBM’s Redbooks among other things.
Availability
March 2010 for Escala entry models, and April 2010 for the middle-range.
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