Feature Stories

	October 2008
	BTQ Q3 Cover: The Promise of Java Re-Delivered » BTQ (Business Trends Quarterly) magazine provides senior level business and technology executives with in-depth analysis and key insights into market trends and innovative technologies. Check out this issue and learn how customers such as Quodd, CreditEx, and Limewire, were able to improve the performance and scalability of their Java applications.

image not available	April 2008
	*Azul’s with Green in Mind™* Commitment: Design, Build, Operate and Run Azul Business with Green in Mind »** Today’s IT energy challenges require new thinking to achieve ambitious energy savings objectives. Going beyond traditional methods, Azul Systems offers industry-leading solutions that provide organizations the best path to meet increased computing demands while improving power and cooling infrastructure efficiency.

	June 2007
	Special Forum Report: Street#Grid » Hosted by DWT and Waters magazine, the STREET#GRID conference held earlier this year provided CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and senior technologists with a comprehensive understanding of how next generation grid computing, virtualization and SOA technologies can be applied to ensure optimal use of existing IT resources and increased revenues for business lines.

	June 2007
	Waters Open Platform - Meeting the Need for Speed » By Ram Appalaraju, VP of Marketing for Azul In financial services, IT infrastructure is all about highspeed transaction processing and the ability to maintain that speed throughout wild variations in load and unpredictable surges in transaction volumes. Learn the five key obstacles firms are facing in order to achieve scalable throughput and fast response times in today’s financial services applications.

	June 2007
	Waters Special Report - Stop the Pauses: Reignite Your Competitive Advantage Through Better Risk Analysis » In this New York breakfast briefing, read what industry thought leaders had to say about latency and real-time pause issues. This panel consisted of Tony Bishop, head of product management at Wachovia; Adam Sussman, analyst at The Tabb Group; and Scott Sellers, chief operations officer of Azul Systems.

	June 2007
	Waters Special Report - The Low-Latency Risk Relay » In this London breakfast briefing, industry experts discussed latency issues and risk management. The panel consisted of Adam Vile, head of grid and high-performance computing and technical computing at Excelian; Jeremy Gibbs, head of fixed income, e-trading at Merrill Lynch; and Scott Sellers, chief operating officer at Azul Systems.

	August 21st, 2006
	Why Memory Matters for Financial Institutions » For financial institutions, fast processing of vast amounts of data is a key competitive differentiator. Whether it is stock transactions or account reconciliation, fast results are imperative. And by adding more foreign exchange options or reconciling increasing amounts of end-of-the day trade data, financial applications are demanding more and more memory.

	May 31st, 2006
	Orchestrate Service Levels through Virtualization » Network attached processing is a new approach to delivering a virtual infrastructure for middleware based applications. Network attached processing sets out to leverage existing application-level virtualization to cleanly separate the server and its OS-dependent functions from the virtual machine-dependent code (typically Java code).

	May 5th, 2006
	See Why Network Attached Processing is Solving the Innovation Gap » Network attached processing provides massive amounts of compute capacity and memory as a shared network service, similar to the manner in which network attached storage (NAS) provides shared storage capacity to data centers. Network attached processing enables data centers to address issues with application scalability and response time while paving a seamless path towards a shared resource model that guarantees quality of service for each application.

	May 5th, 2006
	Java™ Scaling Made Simple, Unshackle Your Growth Engines » Azul Systems makes scaling simple and cost effective by providing large shared pools of capacity with the economics of commodity servers, eliminates the need to capacity plan at the application level, and makes adding capacity as simple as adding a new filer in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) environment.

	May 5th, 2006
	Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Power and Cooling » Azul Compute Appliances provide dramatic reduction in power consumption and rack space usage on average with 85% less power consumption than equivalent performance general-purpose servers.

	May 5th, 2006
	Break Free from Application Memory Constraints » Azul Compute Appliances free application from memory constraints by providing massive heaps per application instance, which does not pause due to the exclusive hardware-assisted Pauseless Garbage Collection. This special hardware-assisted algorithm offers parallel concurrent garbage collection and virtually eliminates application pause times.

	October 4th , 2005
	SOA Scalability Like You've Never Seen Before » Azul Systems Inc. recently announced that BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has agreed to provide full support for Azul Compute Appliances.

	July 19th , 2005
	Network Attached Processing Unshackles Developer Innovation » Azul Systems celebrated the 10 year anniversary of Java™ technology with the first “live” developer demonstration of network attached processing at the 2005 JavaOne Conference.

	June 17th , 2005
	Compute Pools Redefine the Economics of Computer » Azul Systems solves the biggest challenge facing IT managers today - to reduce the cost and complexity associated with delivering compute and managing enterprise class datacenters.

	April 18, 2005
	On-Demand Video: The Era of Unbound Compute » In this on-demand video, Azul executive and founders discuss network attached processing and it’s impact in the changing landscape of Java based applications.