Bull StoreWay Calypso Software Suite Available

Bull announces the availability of StoreWay
Calypso, an integrated data protection and management software suite.
Based on a modular architecture and a common software platform,
StoreWay Calypso responds to a wide variety of data backup, archive,
replication and search requirements across all major server and storage
infrastructures. Providing both operational simplicity, and economies
of scale, StoreWay Calypso enables enterprises to reduce both the risk
and cost of managing and securing their information assets.

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
organizations 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," said Bob Hammer, president and CEO, CommVault. "By
pairing our advanced data protection solutions with Bull’s market
reach, service organization 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 backup of a single
Windows server running either Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, SQL
server, or Sharepoint Portal applications.

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