BULL

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BULL
Official Website: http://www.bull.com
Official about page: http://www.integris.com.br/about-bull/index.php
Country: Please specify country
Location: Rue Jean Jaurès B.P.68

78340 Les Clayes-sous-Bois France

Founded: 1931
Business: Data Retention, Deep Packet Inspection
Contact
Phone: 33 (0)1 30 80 70 00
Fax: 33 (0)1 30 80 73 73


Background

"Bull SA operates in the information technology market. The company assists large enterprises and government agencies to transform their information systems by applying its know-how in three fundamental areas: the supply and integration of enterprise information systems, the development of application software, and the operation of secure information systems.

Business The company’s operations focus on two related businesses: Infrastructure products and related support activities, such as supercomputers and large servers, data storage solutions, administration and security software, through products developed and manufactured in-house or by partners; and IT services which range from consulting to systems integration and outsourcing. They both target IT and Operations departments of large and medium-sized organizations." BusinessWeek

  • "Bull SA (ENXTPA: BULL) acquired 95% stake of Time Reversal Communication from MobiWire SA on October 31, 2011. Jérôme Lombardic-Platet and Martine Zervudacki of DS Avocats acted as legal advisor for MobiWire. Olivier de Fontbrune and Rémy de Ricou acted as legal advisor for Bull SA." BusinessWeek


Products

"Bull is also working with the French Atomic Energy Authority (the CEA) to design and build Tera 100, the first European petaflops-capacity supercomputer." Bull Innovations

Countries known to be using products

Customers The company has customers in approximately 50 countries.

The majority are large and medium-sized organizations operating in the public sector or in finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Reports

  • Firms Aided Libyan Spies: First Look Inside Security Unit Shows How Citizens Were TrackedWSJ

Tech & Business Partners

Partners


The company has a business relationship with Intel in the area of microprocessors[1] .

Bull also works with IBM on its Escala servers[2]

and with NEC for its entry-level range of Intel-powered servers (marketed as the NovaScale Universal)[3].

The company also works with players in the fields of data storage (Blue cabinet/SERPIKOM EMC[4], Symantec-Veritas[5], NetApp[6], and VMWare[7] )

and software (Business Objects, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, SAS, and Infor).

Bull is a participant in the main Open Source communities, including the Linux Foundation, OW2, QualiPSo, JBoss, or Apache.

Competition

The company’s competitors are IBM, HP, Sun, and Fujitsu-Siemens.

SGI and Cray are competitors in supercomputers.

In services, Bull faces competition with Cap Gemini, and Atos Origin." BusinessWeek


People Responsible

Board Members

  • CEO:

Philippe Vannier

  • Directors:

Hugues de Saint Germain

Philippe Vassor

Michel Davancens

Henri Conze

Michel Paulin

Valerie Bernis

Dominique Lesourd

Marc Heriard Dubreuil

Alexandra Soto

Marc Blanchet

Jean-Francois Rambicur

Management Team

  • Comercial Director

Bruno Samtmann

  • Communication Director

Tiphaine Hecketsweiler

Investors


Major Shareholders