PARIS, April 14 /PRNewswire/ --     Bull today announces the availability for shipment of EMC's new high-end
Symmetrix V-Max storage systems within Bull StoreWay Storage Solutions.

Central to the Bull storage product portfolio, the Symmetrix V-Max will
enable Bull to upscale its virtualised server-storage solutions into the
mission-critical data center environment while meeting ever more demanding
SLA requirements and customer pressure for optimised storage infrastructures
that reduce investment and management costs.

With one of the first Symmetrix V-Max storage arrays already available in
its EMC Solution Center based in Grenoble France, Bull is running a series of
Symmetrix V-Max briefings, demonstrations and technical workshops for
customers throughout Europe.

"We have worked closely with the EMC product teams at their Hopkinton
headquarters to prepare this announcement and the immediate availability of
the Symmetrix V-Max systems to our customers in our EMEA markets," stated
Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull's StoreWay Business Unit. "Symmetrix has been
the reference in high-end storage for over a decade and this announcement
will allow our customers to benefit from the flexibility and cost
optimisation of innovative features such as automated provisioning and data
tiering, combined with the rock-solid reliability and performance that our
Symmetrix customers demand. This combination is unique in the market today."

The Symmetrix V-Max storage systems are based on the new Virtual Matrix
Architecture technology which interconnects multiple V-Max engines. Each
V-Max engine contains its own redundant CPU, memory and host/disk
connectivity. This architecture enables massive scalability and extreme
levels of fault tolerance and reliability.

"The announcement of the new EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture is the most
radical development in high-end storage in nearly two decades," states David
Donatelli, President, EMC Storage Division. "EMC and Bull have a 16-year
history of collaboration and have worked together since then to help
customers through every major data center revolution. With extensive
experience in deploying Symmetrix systems throughout Europe, the Middle East
and Asia markets, Bull and EMC are again working to help customers with
another major transformation -- from a physical infrastructure to a virtual
one."

Bull has been a worldwide Symmetrix OEM partner since 1993, and through
its StoreWay storage integration organisation has in-depth experience of all
major EMC product families including CLARiiON, Celerra and Centera.

For more information about the EMC SymmetrixV-Max,
http://www.bull.com/storage

About Bull, Architect of an Open World

Bull is an Information Technology company, dedicated to helping
Corporations and Public Sector organizations optimize the architecture,
operations and the financial return of their Information Systems and their
mission-critical related businesses.

Bull focuses on open and secure systems, and as such is the only
European-based company offering expertise in all the key elements of the IT
value chain.

For more information visit: http://www.bull.com