Press Release

Certification of Network Attached Processing Solution Ensures Seamless Deployment, Service and Support for JBoss Customers using Azul Compute Pools

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California –August 17, 2005 – Azul Systems® Inc., the pioneer of network attached processing solutions designed to unbound compute resources for Java™ and J2EE™ based applications platforms, today announced that JBoss® Inc., the Professional Open Source company, has certified interoperability between the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS™) and the Azul® Compute Appliance. Based on validated and audited tests conducted by JBoss on the Azul Compute Appliance, the certification ensures optimum performance between the products as well as JBoss support for infrastructures relying on JBoss and Azul to achieve compelling cost efficiencies that drive down the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers that are expanding their Java-based deployments.

“JBoss certification enables our joint customers to take full advantage of network attached processing to architect very large-scale Java-based deployments,” said Stephen DeWitt, president and chief executive officer at Azul Systems. “The combination of the cost-efficiencies of the Azul platform and the cost-effective JBoss open source model creates a truly compelling growth path for the most demanding application environments.”

“Certifying the Azul Compute Appliance with JEMS provides our growing ecosystem with the confidence they need to plan their infrastructures around the tremendous efficiency and scalability benefits of network attached processing,” said Tom Cooper, vice president of worldwide channels, JBoss, Inc. “JBoss is committed to meeting the business needs of enterprises, and this relationship gives them another commercial-ready open source business tool to deploy.”

The JEMS platform offers market-leading open source technologies that customers can mix and match and roll out into their line of business infrastructure—all at zero-cost software licenses. These core technologies include JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, JBoss Portal, JBoss jBPM, JBoss Eclipse IDE, JBoss Cache and Apache Tomcat.

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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