Bull and SAP launch joint green IT research project | | 2008-10-16 | | | Bull has teamed up with SAP Research, the research division of business software giant SAP AG, in a green IT R&D initiative.The project aims to integrate Bull’s energy management intelligence with SAP’s large scale software infrastructures to develop an overall strategy for datacentre energy management combined with server management services, integrating business applications and end-user services to enable sustainable datacentre technologies. The teams plan to tackle every aspect of the IT life cycle from design, through deployment, operation and disposal. The research will be based on Bull NovaScale and Escala servers. Expected developments include MIPS/watt benchmarks, optimized virtualized architectures, and energy management enabled SAP software. "This R&D project embodies our vision of the ’Bio Data Centre’, a new-generation data centre that brings critical advances in quality of service, energy consumption, and flexibility to customers," said Michel Guillemet, Group R&D Director at Bull. "This initiative, launched between two European-based global IT companies, demonstrates that Europe can act as a leading force for concrete innovation, addressing raising environmental concerns, while delivering to enterprises more efficient IT solutions."The project is expected to last for an initial term of three years. | |
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