The WOW is Real

For more than three years now, the R&D team at Azul has been hard at work pioneering technology that will have a tremendous impact on our industry. Their amazing efforts have resulted in the industry’s first network attached processing solution. This approach combines extraordinary amounts of raw processing power with an architecture matched to the way in which applications are architected today. Combine this unprecedented elegance in terms of deployment and economics that are well under today’s commodity curve and you’ve got something special.

Today, as our field trials wind down and we approach general availability of our first product, I’m extremely pleased with the progress we’ve made so far. We are excited about the future of our company and it is clear that customers are also excited about what is coming.

Hard data is now available from our field trials, and it is excellent news. At one trial, for example, after running applications on the Azul compute appliance, a financial services firm was able to maintain its optimal application response times even during peak customer load. Without the Azul compute appliance, this would have required racks of additional expensive servers.

Similarly, at a large payroll and HR processing firm, the Azul compute appliance increased Java™ processing throughput by 72 percent while response time decreased by more than 60 percent. The appliance was able to process five to six times more work than the system could without the Azul compute appliance.

Finally, a large business and IT consultancy watched in amazement as the Azul compute appliance enabled one dual-Opteron™ host server to scale from 30,000 operations per second to an astonishing 210,000 operations per second by offloading the Java processing.

In addition to validating our performance claims, the field trials have validated our promise of reducing cost and complexity. The most obvious example of this has been in the installation process. I’ve dubbed it “30 Minutes to Wow” because we have consistently been able to take the Azul appliance from a customer’s receiving dock to the data center, remove the appliance from the box, rack it, connect it, turn it on and demonstrate its benefits in under 30 minutes.

We are continuing to build the vital partnerships that will fuel and support our sales efforts, including world-class application server partners like, BEA®, IBM®, SAP®, JBoss™ and Oracle®. Look for more news on these relationships soon.

And we have kicked off a new sales initiative with our No Cost Evaluation Program which will expand our presence in the field while presenting companies with an opportunity to seize a first-mover advantage from a solution that will revolutionize their data center cost structure.

As expected, 2005 is off to a blazing start, and the pace is only going to increase. I’m already looking forward to sharing more exciting news in my next newsletter.

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