Press Release

Inauguration includes Contest Offering 90 Days of Free Access to Massive Compute Pool

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – June 21, 2005– Azul Systems™ Inc. today announced the opening of the Azul Center for Unbound Compute™, the world's first enterprise test center dedicated to virtual machine-based applications. Based on breakthrough network attached processing technology – enabled through pools of Azul Compute Appliances – Java™ platform based-applications can now scale to thousands of processor cores with tens of terabytes of memory.

Azul also announced “Win the Keys to the Center for Unbound Compute,” a raffle-style contest running at the Azul Systems booth during the SIA Technology Management Conference in New York (June 21^th -June 23^rd ) and Java One in San Francisco (June 27^th -June 29^th ). The winning developer will receive 90 days of free access to the Azul Center for Unbound Compute. For more information and a contest entry form, qualified developers should visit the Azul Systems booth at one of the two shows.

The center will focus on web-enabled online transaction processing applications in a shared resource. Enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and other interested parties are invited to qualify for access to the center to witness the dramatic benefits of this massive Java compute capacity. Early adopters of network attached processing have noted that Java based applications have been able to handle more than 30 times the workload possible with a typical single-CPU server host.

“The Azul Center for Unbound Compute was built to demonstrate how network attached processing delivers immediate performance benefits to Java-based applications without any changes at all to the application code,” said Gil Tene, vice president of technology and CTO, co-founder of Azul Systems Inc. “Visitors will be able to see for themselves how massively shared compute pools improve application performance, reduce the number of required servers, simplify management, and offer developers an infrastructure for creating a new generation of innovative and powerful applications.”

The Azul Center for Unbound Compute has created the largest pool of compute power ever assembled. Engineers have successfully run applications on compute pools consisting of more than 16,000 processor cores – 16 kilo cores – and typically maintain a testing environment consisting of 2,000 processor cores of power that can be tapped from a variety of host platforms by any J2SE-based application. Any number of host servers and applications can tap into the pool at the same time, and the resources in the pool are dynamically provisioned and reallocated among the applications every 10 ms. The enterprise test center currently provides both Solaris ™ /SPARC ™ and Linux/x86 architecture servers, featuring AMD Opteron ™ processors, supporting application servers including BEA™ WebLogic™, IBM® WebSphere®, Oracle®, JBoss™ and others.

Access to the Center
Enterprises interested in testing their applications in the Azul Center for Unbound Compute should contact their local Azul sales representative or sales@azulsystems.com to make a reservation. ISVs and other interested parties can request access to the center by contacting Azul at partners@azulsystems.com.

About Azul Compute Appliances
Deployed in compute pools, Azul Compute Appliances eliminate capacity planning for individual applications, and can host hundreds of applications simultaneously while providing dynamic access to additional compute resources to meet peak application workloads. Such power offers enterprise customers unprecedented application scalability at the best possible economics, and provides an ideal platform to accelerate the consolidation of applications and their associated server infrastructure. Azul Compute Appliances can be transparently deployed into customers' infrastructure without requiring any change to their existing server or operating environments.

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 .

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