Bull · French sovereign computing
Bull and Scality
Sovereign storage on French-built infrastructure. ADI, RING and ARTESCA software paired with Bull's BullSequana server family — engineered in Europe, manufactured in France, controlled in-region.
The partnership
Master your AI destiny on a fully European stack.
Benefits in a nutshell
What the partnership delivers
French sovereign hardware.
Bull is now French-state-owned, manufactured in Angers, France — sovereignty on every layer of the stack.
Full European stack.
Bull's BullSequana family covers enterprise, HPC and AI workloads; Scality is the data layer underneath.
Sovereign AI Platform.
Bull's modular, open-source-aligned software stack for production AI workloads — layered above the Scality data layer.
Energy-efficient by design.
Bull's Angers factory and HPC engineering prioritize energy efficiency and reduced TCO across the stack.
Scality on Bull
Three products, one sovereign infrastructure motion.
ADI, RING and ARTESCA each run on Bull infrastructure. The product choice follows the workload — configurations are jointly sized through the channel.
FOR AI INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDERS
10 TB – exabyte
Autonomous data infrastructure that aligns storage media, performance and protection to each stage of the AI data lifecycle. Paired with Bull infrastructure for sovereign AI deployments in customer-controlled European data centers.
FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTS
1 PB - exabyte
On-premises object storage in scalable clusters with native S3 API and file access. Cloud, analytics, data archives and content repositories at petabyte-to-exabyte scale on Bull infrastructure.
FOR MID-MARKET BACKUP MANAGERS
20 TB - 1PB
Simple, secure and built-for-backup. CORE5 immutable and cyber-resilient backup storage for Veeam, Commvault and other leading backup applications, deployed on Bull infrastructure for residency-bound European estates.
Scality ADI on Bull
Sovereign AI infrastructure on Bull.
ADI aligns storage media, performance and protection to each stage of the AI data lifecycle. Paired with Bull's BullSequana servers, the joint stack stays sovereign end to end — hardware engineered in Europe, manufactured in France, and the storage layer controlled in-region.
- High-performance S3 and S3 over RDMA datapaths for AI training and inference.
- Multi-petabyte to exabyte scale on European-built infrastructure.
- Aligned media tiers from data preparation to retrieval-heavy pipelines.
- End-to-end sovereign: hardware, storage software and operations stay in-region.
- Layers under Bull's sovereign AI Platform for model management and MLOps.
Scality RING on Bull
Petabyte-scale storage on Bull infrastructure.
- Scale capacity and performance independently on Bull infrastructure.
- Multi-site geo-stretched and asynchronous replication.
- Cyber-resilient immutable storage with CORE5 and up to 14 nines durability.
- Runs on French-manufactured hardware throughout the stack.
- Aligned with EU public-sector and regulated-industry residency requirements.
Scality ARTESCA on Bull
Sovereign immutable backup.
- Simple to deploy and manage immutable backup storage.
- Validated with Veeam, Commvault and other leading backup solutions.
- CORE5 ransomware resilience for cyber recovery.
- Runs on French-manufactured hardware for sovereign deployments.
- Sized for mid-market footprints up to multi-petabyte estates.
Why Bull + Scality
A fully European stack for sovereign data infrastructure.
French-state owned.
Bull is now under French state ownership. The hardware layer of your data stack stays controlled in-region.
Sovereign by deployment.
Hardware, storage software and operations stay within customer-controlled European data centers.
Engineered in Europe.
BullSequana servers are designed and manufactured in Bull's Angers, France factory — energy-efficient by design.
Open and full-stack.
Bull's BullSequana AI Platform sits above the Scality data layer — open-source-aligned, sovereign, full-stack.
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