Why Your Online Business Needs a Better Java Infrastructure

Java-based applications are the lifeblood for many global 5000 companies. Every day online products and services organizations rely on key platforms such as portals, e-commerce and trading systems to achieve their business objectives. But in recent years, these applications, which have heavy transaction loads and data-intensive operations, have come under increased pressure to provide greater capacities with better consistency, while achieving lower TCO. Add the additional IT burden of supporting virtualization and the latest Cloud (i.e. SaaS/PaaS) technologies to improve “business agility” and it is understandable why many IT organizations are struggling to keep up with business innovation.

View On-Demand Red Hat Webcast: Accelerate Your Business With an Elastic Java Infrastructure from JBoss and Azul »

Removing Barriers to Business Growth

JVMs are the root cause of the problem. They are limited in a number of problematic ways that prevent applications from meeting business goals:

• Rigid and non-elastic - 2-4 GB heaps are common
• Unstable under load - requiring constant tuning as apps evolve
• Inefficient - forcing over-provisioning for peak demand
• Complex to manage - with lots of small instances
• Mismatched for virtualization
• Proprietary - vendor lock-in that raises costs and reduces flexibility
• Slow to market - with long development cycles and extensive tuning needs

JBoss and Azul have partnered to create a better Java infrastructure that removes these barriers to business growth »