Pauseless Garbage Collection Feature Story

No More Pauses Means More Customer Satisfaction, More Revenue

Network attached processing from Azul Systems® provides massive amounts of compute capacity and memory to virtual machine-based applications as a shared network service, similar to the manner in which network attached storage provides shared storage capacity to data centers. Changing a path variable and a command-line option are sufficient to give your existing applications 96 GB of memory heap – even those applications that run on 32-bit hosts. And garbage collection pauses are no longer an issue thanks to Azul hardware assisted “Pauseless Garbage Collection” capability, a parallel concurrent and deterministic algorithm that virtually eliminates pauses even for the largest heaps.

Faced with these challenges, the bank turned to network attached processing from Azul Systems, a groundbreaking solution that is being adopted by many enterprise data centers including Credit Suisse®, BT®, Pegasus Solutions® and others. By introducing network attached processing as a seamless complement to the existing infrastructure, the application was able to tap into massive memory heaps – without experiencing painful garbage collection pauses. To the delight of traders this can open up tremendous business opportunities. Technical staff has finally found a solution to one of their major pain points: heap size management and application pauses. And these benefits are achieved while reducing the infrastructure TCO by more than $1 million.

• Fast response times. Response times dropped from several seconds (and occasionally more than 10 seconds) down to being consistently under 1 second. For traders, this means more trades and for the business, it represents more revenues.

• Consistent response times. Just as important, response times are consistent, which reduces frustration, increases predictability, and ultimately improves productivity.

• Enhanced feature set. Traders can finally have access to the application’s full set of features, enabling them to make better trades. And the creativity of users and developers is ignited again, knowing that the infrastructure will not get in the way of new innovative functionality.

• Geographic expansion to three worldwide locations. The bank can roll out its applications in 3 key geographic locations. And the number of trades is expected to more than double without the need for extraordinary measures to maintain service levels.

• 3-year TCO reduction in excess of $1 million. The bank is poised to realize 3-year TCO savings of more than $1 million. The bulk of the savings comes from hardware cost reductions. The remainder comes from reduced power and cooling requirements and streamlined operations.

A well managed IT organization can boost financials. Network attached processing is here. It solves immediate pain points like problematic applications even as it paves a seamless path to the next generation data center. It is simple to use, simple to deploy, and it will change the way you think about compute capacity. Extensively tested, incredible ROI, and excellent service - network attached processing is an unbeatable combination and is helping many financial services organizations regain their business agility.

For more information on this study as well as how network attached processing can help your organization with similar transaction-intensive application deployment challenges, please contact sales@azulsystems.com or call 650.230.6650.