GST Resells Bull Variants of IBM's Power5+ AIX and Linux Servers

Published: March 8, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Midrange disk and tape storage vendor GST has re-upped its reseller agreement with French server maker Bull and has announced that it can now peddle Bull's Power5+ servers in the United States.

Specifically, GST can now resell Bull's Escala Gold family of Power5+ servers, which are equivalent to IBM's own System p5 machines. Bull supports AIX and Linux on these boxes, just like IBM does. The Escala line includes rack-mounted and tower Power5+ servers (which Bull calls the Privilege line and which includes Power5, Power5+ and PowerPC 970 machines) as well as blade servers (the EL245B and EL445B, or Evolutive line, based on the PowerPC 970).

This time last year, GST inked a deal to resell Power5-based Escala servers in the United States, which is a bit of a thumb on the nose to IBM, chasing Unix accounts in its own home market by bringing rebadged equipment that was sent to France for the European market back to the States to compete against Big Blue's own machinery. Incidentally, GST is also a reseller of IBM's own System p5 and OpenPower Power-based servers. Presumably, Bull is giving better margins than IBM, or GST would not bother.

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