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16-17 January, Roma
| Faithful to its aim to foster the development and use of Open Source Software (OSS) to help industries in the global race for growth, on 16 and 17 January 2008 the international QualiPSo consortium is organizing its first international conference: ?Fostering trust and quality of Open Source software systems?.
Organized in Rome, under the patronage of the European Commission, the QualiPSo 2008 conference will bring together international authorities and experts on OSS trends, reveal the first results of research carried out by the QualiPSo consortium, and be a forum for debate about the drivers for encouraging trust in OSS. It will approach Open Source from three complementary angles: political, economical and technological, covering:
* Legal issues in Open Source
* Trustworthiness of OSS products and processes
* Business models and strategies in OSS
* Interoperability in the area of Open Source
* Networks of OSS Competence Centers
* Next-generation software forges
?More than ever, major industry and government players today consider Open Source as part of their strategic IT sourcing portfolio,? declared Stefano De Panfilis, Chairman of the QualiPSo consortium. ?Nevertheless, there is still some reluctance about widespread adoption of OSS, mainly due to lack of confidence. The ?grey areas? of OSS that cause major concerns to industry are mainly focused on legal and quality aspects, and business issues. A first in the industry, this two-day conference will focus on the solutions to these challenges.?
Founded by a heavyweight group of ICT industry players including Bull, SMEs, governments and academic institutions across Europe, Brazil and China, QualiPSo is an international consortium that aims to help industries and governments define and implement the technologies, processes and policies that facilitate the development and use of Open Source Software components with the same level of trust traditionally offered by proprietary software.
The conference will enable IT executives, public sector bodies, policy makers, software project managers, IT architects and OSS community members to assess the opportunities for adopting OSS as part of IT strategies; reach out to professionals involved in OSS; and share experiences about OSS. It will also enable attendees to get involved in the definition of next-generation tools and process addressing trust factors in OSS. Last but not least, it will announce the creation and launch of OSS Competence Centers designed to help industry adopt OSS worldwide.
| | |  | | | Linux and Open Source solutions
29-31 January 2008, Paris
Host to more than 10,000 visitors, the "Linux and Open Source Solutions" exhibition is a major event dedicated to the world of Linux® and Open Source software and applications.
With the European leader in Open Source Software services and its experts, discover the revolution of open Information Systems, through a number of conferences:
On January 29
- Service quality management with Open Source: the maturity of the solutions at the light of ITIL and CMMI approaches - Ahcene Latreche
On January 30
- NovaForge: a development industrialization platform based on open source components - Guillaume Forestier
- The Process Virtual Machine: a revolutionary technology for BPM - Miguel Valdes Faura (Bull) & Tom Bayens (JBoss Red Hat)
- eXo WebOS portal and content management with Java - Rodrigue Le Gall
- JONAS 5: a new generation application server - François Exertier
- EJB3 easy clustering with JOnAS and Easybeans - Benoit Pelletier.
- JASMINe 1.0: facilitate administration of JOnAS Java EE clusters and SOA platforms - Benoit Pelletier (Bull) and Laurent Ruaud (Serli).
Bull will also be exhibiting on its booth and on OW2 booth its Open Energy? family of Open Source services, NovaForge?, the first comprehensive shared platform for project management and distributed development projects based on Open Source software, new middleware and its NovaScale® servers running Linux.
| | | | | | CUBE (Bull European User Group) GCOS 7 study days
5-6 February, Angers
GCOS customers who are members of the Bull European User Group (CUBE) will have the opportunity to visit the Angers manufacturing site and Bull?s outsourcing data center at Trélazé on 5 and 6 February next year. The agenda for these two half-days is as follows:
Angers, 5 February
- 14.30 pm: Presentation of the Bull Angers manufacturing facility by Vincent Sarracanie, Director, Bull Manufacturing
- 15.15 pm: Tour of the manufacturing facilities
- 16.00 pm: Break
- 16.15 pm: GCOS strategy and offer by Jean-François Bauduin and Michel Méron, Bull Products and Systems
- 17.00 pm: 2007 case studies
CNAF: Deployment of NovaScale 9000 systems
GSIT: Inter-bank transfers in France with NovaScale 7000
- 18.30 pm: Conclusion
- 19.30 pm: Dinner
Trélazé, 6 February
- 8.30: Presentation of the Outsourcing Data Center by Philippe Pauty, Director of Bull’s Data Center
- 9.15: Administering and supervising Data Center systems, presented by Philippe Martinet, Bull Services
- 10.15: Break
- 10.30: Tour of the Data Center
- 11.30: Securing an IP network environment
- 12.15: Conclusion
- 12.30: Lunch
| | | | | |  | CeBIT 2008
March 4-9, Hannover, Germany
| CeBIT is the biggest trade show for the ICT sector worldwide, with nearly half a million visitors in 2007, including 8000 journalists from across the globe reporting on the cutting-edge developments and the future of the digital world.
Evidian, a Bull subsidiary, will be present on the Microsoft booth in the hall dedicated to security. Discover our identity and access management solution, Evidian IAM Suite, and talk to our specialists.
| | | | | |  | CUBE seminar: Virtualizing IT infrastructures
11 March 2008, Paris
| Energy consumption control, installations optimization, simplified administration, service continuity, flexibility... IT infrastructure evolution is no longer being driven by cost reduction alone.
In this context, virtualization certainly provides clear advantages. And yet, its implementation remains complex, and requires confirmed expertise in virtualization technologies.
Bull as IT maker, systems integrator and outsourcer for large systems, has been developing, integrating and utilizing these technologies for many years: to design advanced systems, establish methods and tools for production management, and run its outsourcing business.
It is the cumulative experience gained from both centers of competences and production sites that Bull experts will share with you on the occasion of this seminar together with first- customers testimonials.
| | | | | |  | 2nd European Identity Conference
April 22-25, Munich, Germany
| For hundreds of Identity Management professionals, the European Identity Conference provides an unbiased source of new insights and ideas on a broad scale from business-oriented briefings to hands-on like workshop sessions, with a great number of best practices presentations from real world deployments. With its community-like social networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, the European Identity Conference has become an annual must-attend event.
Evidian, a Bull subsidiary, will be showing its solutions for Identity and Access Management.
| | | | | | | | Bull Summit 2008 Conference
May 6-9, Phoenix
| Rapid response to new business initiatives, increased technical complexity and heightened time and budget constraints continue to place unprecedented pressure on organizations. IT executives must stay focused on the urgent, immediate needs of running their operations while looking to the future, where new and emerging technologies will pose a different set of opportunities and challenges.
These are just some of the issues that will be addressed at Bull?s Summit 2008 Conference, scheduled for May 6-9, at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.
Attendees at Summit 2008 will hear from IT Industry speakers, Bull Customers from both the U.S. and Europe, and Bull Partners who will share their views on how IT organizations must adapt to address changing business and public sector needs and the evolution of information technology. Bull customers, prospects, distributors, and partners from the United States and International locations will hear about Bull?s future strategies and how the company is positioned to meet the changing needs of its customers.
| | | | | |  | ISC'08
June 17-20 in Dresden, Germany
| The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) ? the largest supercomputing event in Europe ? will once again be held on June 17-20 at the Dresden International Congress Centre in Germany. The exhibition will gather over 80 of the world?s leading supercomputing companies and organizations, which will showcase their high performance computing, networking and storage technologies.
The four-day conference features a mix of research presentations and talks on business and industrial topics.
The eagerly-awaited TOP500 list will also be announced.
Meet our experts at Bull booth and see our latest HPC solutions at work on a Bull NovaScale® cluster!
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