Azul Systems solves the biggest challenge facing IT manager today - to reduce the cost and complexity associated with delivering compute and managing enterprise class data centers. The Challenge Today, data center compute power is typically purchased in a “denomination.” 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, etc. servers are selected depending on the demands of a specific application. Every time a new application is deployed, IT managers must decide how much compute power is necessary to run the application and meet required service-level agreements. In order to ensure that each application can meet peak demand, the sizing decision includes significant over-provisioning. The Azul Solution: Network Attached Processing Network attached processing is designed to “unbound” compute resources for applications running on Java™, J2EE™ and other virtual machine-based platforms. The idea is to “separate compute from the computer,” a concept that has strong roots in technology evolution. Back in the 80s, servers did just about everything. One of their growing functions was routing network traffic. In the mid-80s, Cisco popularized the router and leveraged the TCP/IP open standard, a device specifically designed to manage this function for the server. This allowed devices to share the network more easily and larger networks to be built. Now nearly all network traffic goes through routers and other optimized networking equipment. In the 90s, network attached storage (NAS) was the result of a similar evolution—storage capacity was moved from the server to the network. Now, Azul Systems has taken the evolution one step further by moving compute resources from the server to the network, where it can be made available to any VM-based application that needs it. Read more »
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