| Paris 09 February 2010
Bull has launched its new generation of Escala servers, designed specifically to run organisation 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 consists of an entry-level Escala server and two mid-range servers, all based on POWER7 technology. The mid-range servers also benefit from power-on-demand functionality for the processors and memory, enabling large-scale data centres to significantly optimize their costs. As with all the servers in the Escala family, the new models feature powerful virtualization functions.
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Part of a pro-active 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 centre optimization and intelligent energy management in a global and sustainable approach to IT infrastructures", stated Olivier Gaumont, Director of Bull's Enterprise Server Business Unit.
The new Escala servers are supported by a comprehensive range of infrastructure services, designed to help organisations 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.
Key technical features include:
- Escala E5-700: servers in 4U format; available with AIX5.3 and AIX6.1; supports up to 32 POWER7TM processor cores, with clock speeds of 3/3,3/3,55 GHz and up to 512 Gb of memory
- Escala M6-700: servers in 4U format per module (up to 4 possible modules); available with AIX5.3 and AIX6.1; supports up to 64 POWER7 processor cores, with clock speeds of 3,1/3,5 GHz and up to 2 Tb of memory
- Escala M7-700: servers in 4U format per module (up to 4 possible modules); available with AIX5.3 and AIX6.1; supports up to 64 POWER7 processor cores, with clock speeds of 3,86/4,1GHz and up to 2 Tb
The new Escala servers will be available from March 2010 for the Escala E5-700, and April 2010 for the Escala M6-700 and Escala M7-700. |
