BULL
BULL |
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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 |
Contents
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
- See also Blue cabinet/Amesys Bull
- "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
- Syria: digital weapons to hunt down opponents Huffington Post Le Monde
- complete EAGLE user's manual
- Homeland Security Program (from wikileaks spy files)
- owni (1) owni (2)
- Richard Stallman puts a foot in a surveillance society - exposure of active Amesys/Bull surveillance tech in Tunis (article and video)
Tech & Business Partners
Partners
- Nimsoft partnership with Bull for The Vision Infractructure
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