Alliances and partnerships are essential to Bull’s open computing vision. Bull is developing strong co-operation with key IT market leaders and innovators in order to provide customers with advanced, global IT solutions that help them grow and differentiate themselves in their markets.
 
Bull shares in-depth expertise, including common R&D activities, with a dozen strategic partners, as well as Open Source Communities such as OSDL, the leading Linux community, and ObjectWeb, the premier open source middleware community. These partnerships not only result in integrated and totally interoperable products, they also enable customers to benefit from direct access to R&D and unique competence centres in Europe. For example, Bull has the leading European competence centres on HPC, Linux and AIX, and one of the few Microsoft Gold-certified competence centres in Europe. Strong relationships also ensure that Bull is the European partner of choice for deploying Oracle, SAP or ObjectWeb middleware-based solutions

Strategic Alliances

Partners, OEMs and distributors

Bull has also developed strong partnerships with many other leading-edge storage solutions suppliers (Brocade, EMC, Overland, StorageTek, Symantec-Veritas... ), Telco and network solutions providers (3com, Cisco, CIRPACK, Enterasys, Ipanema, Juniper Networks, Kabira, Mitel...), virtualisation solutions suppliers (SWsoft, VMware...), software vendors (Gallagher & Robertson, ORSYP, ...) and HPC component vendors (ABAQUS, ANSYS, CFS, DDN, ESI Group, Mecalog, Quadrics…), to provide its customers with end-to-end IT solutions. Bull products are themselves distributed by OEMs (Kraftway, HCL…) and numerous distributors worldwide.
 
Thanks to its strong relationships with numerous market leaders and innovators, Bull can create solutions with all the industry and technical insight need to deliver effective, end-to-end results to its customers.