Support of popular applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Oracle and Microsoft SharePoint combined with self-service search and recovery features provides close integration with business applications and delivers value directly to end-users.

The StoreWay Calypso suite extends Bull's capacity to deliver integrated end-to-end storage solutions through its StoreWay integration organisation, and complements the portfolio of storage products already available through Bull's partnerships with leading storage vendors.

StoreWay Calypso is available through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with CommVault, the leading vendor of Singular Information Management solutions through its Simpana software technology.

Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull's StoreWay business unit noted: "Feedback from our customers has indicated a number of basic issues with traditional data protection strategies. Firstly, there is an historical and entrenched silo approach; Product A from Vendor X for the backup, product B from vendor Y for archiving, and so on. The result is that organisations have difficulty in establishing a coherent data protection and management strategy. The overhead of purchasing, maintaining and administering multiple products is considerable, and this fragmented approach introduces a lack of flexibility that can actively inhibit the evolution of IT infrastructures."

"More and more information is being generated by the end users themselves, and new approaches are required that protect both traditional data centre information and new types of data. The StoreWay Calypso suite responds to these challenges: built around a common software platform, different data protection and management products can be added in a modular way, and they even communicate with each other. The feedback from early customer exchanges has been resoundingly positive, and we are now moving ahead with the deployment of StoreWay Calypso throughout all Bull markets as our strategic data protection and management offer."

Through advanced features including file de-duplication, data classification and indexing, and hierarchical storage management (HSM), StoreWay Calypso directly responds to the challenges posed by strong and sustained growth in structured and unstructured content, and the need to reduce data storage costs through the optimised storage of data across multiple storage formats, whilst maintaining rapid search and access capabilities.

"As CommVault penetrates new markets, we look at strategic partnerships with companies like Bull as a way to drive increased user adoption of our data management software", stated Bob Hammer, president and CEO, CommVault. "By pairing our advanced data protection solutions with Bull's market reach, service organisation and technology portfolio, customers can eliminate numerous point solutions and thereby reduce the complexity of managing their data. We are pleased to enter into this strategic partnership with Bull to bring our data management solutions to market."

StoreWay Calypso is now available worldwide with prices starting from €1,850 for a configuration supporting the tape-based back-up of a single Windows server running either Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, SQL server, or Sharepoint Portal applications.