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Stephen DeWitt to Share with UK Business Leaders How to Simplify and Accelerate Adoption of SOA

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California and SLOUGH, Berkshire, UK – October 7, 2005 -Stephen DeWitt, president and chief executive officer of Azul Systems®, Inc., the pioneer of the industry's first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for service-oriented applications, will deliver a key business session at the upcoming BEAWorld London to demonstrate how this fundamentally new approach to delivering processing power from Azul Systems shortens time to production for service-oriented architectures (SOA), simplifies the achievement of consistent service levels, and dramatically increases IT and business responsiveness.

The industry has witnessed an explosive growth of web services and application proliferation as businesses broaden their revenue opportunities and aim for increased market share. Managing and maintaining these applications has become more challenging and costly every year as new applications are brought on-line and legacy applications evolve and are migrated to SOA. Mr. DeWitt will discuss how Azul award-winning solutions are addressing the most common problem that continues to plague data centers today: the need to ensure application scalability while controlling costs and minimizing excess capacity.

"Azul provides the ideal compute infrastructure to shift application costs from management and maintenance to development and innovation," said Stephen DeWitt, president and chief executive officer at Azul Systems. "We are helping customers find ways to tap into a complete and readily available menu of web services while at the same time lowering the costs of running their data centers. Azul is working hand in hand with industry leaders, such as BEA®, to help deliver the promise of SOA and allow customers to scale their applications, not their costs."

Session Details
"Empowering SOA: Ensuring Business Agility with Proven Investment Protection through the Compute Infrastructure of Choice for BEA WebLogic Platform"
October 11, 2:25 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Royal Lancaster Hotel
London, England

For more information or to request an interview with executives to discuss these trends in more detail, please contact Karen Reynolds at karen@azulsystems.com.

About Azul Systems
Azul Systems®, Inc. 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
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