Press Release

Combined solution delivers unprecedented CPU, memory and database scalability

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – June 9, 2005 – Azul Systems Inc., the pioneer of the industry’s first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java™ and J2EE™ platform based applications, today announced an alliance with Terracotta, Inc. to jointly provide customers with compute and data virtualization solutions that dramatically increase enterprise Java application performance, scalability, and manageability.

The two companies have proven the interoperability of their products and are working together on joint sales and marketing of the compute and data virtualization solution to customers. Azul™ Compute Appliances allow existing enterprise Java applications to tap into a massive shared pool of compute resources, without modifying the application or existing infrastructure.

“Network attached processing is a perfect fit with Terracotta’s I/O virtualization technology,” said Shahin Khan, vice president and chief marketing officer for Azul Systems. “The combined solution will seamlessly improve the way IT managers build out their application infrastructure, requiring less hardware, simplifying management, and delivering overall lower cost.”

“The combination of Terracotta and Azul Systems eliminates the performance and scalability problems that have kept large-scale Java deployments from delivering their full business potential ,” said Bob Griswold, senior vice president, operations and business development of Terracotta. “Where the Azul solution effectively eliminates CPU and local memory bottlenecks from applications, Terracotta’s technology eliminates the I/O bottlenecks, both inter-JVM memory sharing and database I/O, that plague most enterprise Java deployments today. Together, we can ensure our joint customers attain and maintain the speed and reliability they need to meet their service level agreements.”

Terracotta’s software virtualizes both persistent and transient Java data access across a cluster, thereby reducing I/O latency and load, and improving application server utilization, reliability and scalability –without requiring any application modifications. The combined solution will enable IT managers to provide massive capacity for today’s most data-intensive applications without performance degradation.

Azul Systems has sparked what the company calls a new era of “Unbound Compute™,” using the power of application virtual machines and multi-core chip technologies to deliver massive amounts of operating system-agnostic compute resources to Java and J2EE platforms and other virtual machine-based applications. Deployed in compute pools, Azul Compute Appliances can host hundreds of applications simultaneously, providing dynamic access to a shared set of compute resources to meet peak application workloads while eliminating capacity planning at individual application level.

About Terracotta
San Francisco-based Terracotta, Inc. releases Java from the I/O bottlenecks that hinder scalability, reliability & performance in enterprise Java applications. Terracotta’s technology virtualizes the interactions between Java Virtual Machines (JVMs), effectively making multiple JVMs transparently appear as one to the application, while unbinding the applications from the Systems of Record (relational databases, directory servers, etc.) – bringing the original promise of scalability, reliability and availability of Java back to real-world applications. Terracotta’s technology does this without requiring any changes to application code – delivering “Naturally Clustered Java” transparently. More information on Terracotta can be found at www.terracottatech.com.

About Azul Systems
Azul Systems™ has pioneered the industry’s first network attached processing solution, designed to unbound compute resources for virtual machine based applications. Without any application level modifications, binary compatibility requirements or operating system dependencies, this fundamentally new approach eliminates the need to capacity plan at the application level and dramatically lowers the cost and complexity associated with the traditional delivery of computing resources. More information on Azul Systems can be found at www.azulsystems.com.

Legal Notices
Azul Systems, Azul, and the Azul arch logo are trademarks of Azul Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Terracotta, Inc., Terracotta, and the Terracotta stylized “T” logo are trademarks of Terracotta, Inc. Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only for identification purposes.

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