Press Release

Analyst Firm Validates Azul Systems “New Era in Unbound Compute”

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – December 6, 2004 - Azul Systems, Inc. today hailed IDC’s prediction that powerful appliances are poised to significantly impact the ongoing shift to dynamic IT environments in 2005, fueled by such technologies as Azul Systems network attached processing. According to IDC, “dynamic IT,” the firm’s label for a host of computing models that includes utility, grid, and on-demand computing, will be a key theme driving enterprise IT strategy in 2005. Citing Azul Systems specifically, the analyst firm also predicted that compute appliances that are operating system-agnostic will further reduce the cost and complexities associated with the general purpose server market.

The forecast came as part of Predictions 2005, IDC’s annual teleconference that looks at the industry events, user trends and vendor strategies that promise to uniquely define the coming year. Approximately 1000 technology and industry experts attended the briefing. According to IDC, the quest for business value for each workgroup or enterprise application will drive the need for dynamic IT at the infrastructure level with virtualization a key trend. At the infrastructure level, systems developers and independent software vendors are shifting their offerings to a utility computing focus.

“We are extremely gratified that IDC’s analysis of IT trends validates network attached processing as a vital technology that will meet the needs of a broad and fast-growing customer segment that is waiting impatiently for dynamic IT solutions to become a reality,” said Stephen DeWitt, president and CEO of Azul Systems. “Initial market reception for network attached processing has been strong and we are poised to make a historic difference in the computer systems market and ring in a new era in the world of compute.”

About Azul Systems, Inc.
Azul Systems is introducing the industry’s first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java™ and J2EE ™ platform-based enterprise applications. Azul compute appliances eliminate capacity planning at the application level and much of the cost and complexity associated with the conventional delivery of computing resources. More information on Azul Systems can be found at www.azulsystems.com

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