With the help of CA Technologies, Bull is now assisting businesses with the operation of their data centers. In an era of cloud computing and green IT, and with space and energy constraints ever more stringent, the progressive DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) approach offered by Bull aims to be global, from consulting on the upstream end to real-time usage management. The goal is to improve energy efficiency, keep critical systems up and running, and enhance user productivity.

At a time when digital systems already consume 10% of the global electrical power production (which is expected to double over the next 10 years), data center management is becoming a challenge both for the economy and for society as a whole; hence the need for an approach that is as rigorous as it is pragmatic. Concretely, the proposed solution consists of CA ecoMeter, which issues detailed energy consumption information (and alerts) in real time direct from the monitored systems, and CA Visual Infrastructure, which displays comprehensive resources dashboards with the possibility of managing and optimizing these resources on the fly. For more information, we recommend reading the white paper titled “Operating data centers in light of the new energy paradigm.”