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Companies are constantly in search of innovative solutions that provide a competitive advantage. Whether the goal is scaling your existing infrastructure to meet growing business demands, or delivering new services that drive new revenue streams, the primary focus is to enable your business to drive higher levels of economic value to both your business and your customers.
Deploying new services and growing your business doesn’t have to mean buying more servers…not anymore. Azul Systems provides technology that allows you to get 3 times more productivity from the servers you already have and dramatically speeds up application development and time-to-market deployment.
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Why Memory Matters for Financial Institutions
For financial institutions, fast processing of vast amounts of data is a key competitive differentiator. Whether it’s 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. The Java™ platform uses memory called heap by creating and using objects on the fly. Once the objects are no longer needed, a process called garbage collection (GC) reclaims the memory for reuse. Traditional types of garbage collection must stop the application from running while the garbage is being collected. This causes what is often called “stop the world pauses,” where applications actually have to stop processing transactions all together.
In the highly competitive financial services industry, companies are constantly trying to gain an advantage over other institutions. An easy way to do this is to analyze more data objects, and as a result use more memory. However, more or larger objects mean more memory that will need to be garbage collected and consequently longer GC pauses. Java application performance tuning often revolves around this conundrum: how to use more data without increasing GC pauses. Applications that cannot achieve this balance decrease the amount of transactions that can be completed, thus diminishing revenue for the bank.
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