Press Release

Combined Solution Ensures Predictability for the Most Demanding Workloads

SOMERVILLE, MA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 2, 2005 – Azul Systems® Inc., the pioneer of the industry’s first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java™ and J2EE™-based applications, today announced an alliance with Tangosol™ Inc., a leader in high availability and reliability solutions for large-scale J2EE applications to ensure high performance and data coherency in clustered computing environments, providing customers with massive compute resource scalability combined with guaranteed data protection, which is critical in industries such as financial services and trading floor application deployments.

“When you think about what you can do with 384 processor cores and a quarter terabyte of RAM available on demand in a single Azul Compute Appliance, the possibilities are staggering,” said Cameron Purdy, president of Tangosol. “By enhancing the clustering in Coherence™ to be optimized for network attached processing, and adding support for policy-directed partitioning to ensure both data locality and resiliency within a data grid, the joint solution guarantees in-memory data resiliency even in the event of hardware failure.”

Coherence-enabled applications reliably access and share massive amounts of in-memory data across any number of servers in a way that ensures unparalleled scalability and guarantees that server failure does not result in data loss. Azul compute pools easily grow compute capacity without any additional reconfiguration of applications, offering unprecedented application predictability and scalability. The combination of Azul Compute Appliances and Coherence 3.0, which introduced a number of improvements designed to work in concert with network attached processing, will dramatically enhance these capabilities. Tangosol has hundreds of production deployments in many of the world’s largest financial services firms, telcos, logistics companies, insurance firms and ecommerce websites, all of which can now benefit from the combined offering.

“With network attached processing, it is finally practical to cache twenty gigabytes of transactional data in a Java virtual machine,” said Gil Tene, vice president and CTO of Azul. “With Coherence, our customers can deploy data processing applications that scale resiliently, with in-memory data sets in the terabytes. Tangosol Coherence is an ideal match for   Azul compute pools, providing applications with massive heap, pauseless garbage collection, and unbound compute power."

Azul and Tangosol are working together on joint sales and marketing of the compute and data management solution. The companies provide configuration and tuning guidelines for Tangosol Coherence running on Azul, helping customers maximize the performance and reliability of their application deployments.

About Tangosol
Tangosol™ is the industry leader in delivering data clustering, grid computing, and distributed caching solutions to organizations that build and run mission-critical enterprise J2EE™ applications. Since its release in 2001, hundreds of companies have relied on Tangosol Coherence™ software to achieve uninterrupted synchronized coordinated access to their most critical and often-used data at incredible speed, sustained even under the heaviest loads. These companies, which include major financial, government, telecommunications, insurance, and other institutions, as well as technology vendors in the application server, performance management and application security markets also have full assurance that their data will survive intact and remain accessible during intermittent system outages and downtime. Tangosol customers and partners enjoy predictable, economical, and virtually unlimited scalability, even with explosive growth. For more information on Tangosol please visit www.tangosol.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.

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