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  • Understanding Application Hiccups: An Introduction to the Open Source jHiccup tool - In this Webcast, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will introduce simple, non-obtrusive methods for measuring and characterizing platform "hiccups" during application execution. Using the new jHiccup open source tool, Gil will demonstrate and chart commonly observed behaviors of idle, mostly idle, and busy systems, as well as common workload types that experience outliers due to garbage collection pauses and other runtime-induced delays. Register Here »

On-Demand Webinars

451 Group Webinar

  • Variety, Velocity and Volume: Meeting the performance challenges of Big Data in the enterprise - Big Data is no longer just a challenge for large social media companies - enterprises can also benefit from understanding when and how to apply these technologies and architectures. In this Webinar, Matthew Aslett of the 451 Group reviews the taxonomy of Big Data and explain how organizations are employing new data management technologies and approaches to ensure that they turn the data deluge into more accurate and efficient operations. Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems, will then highlight in greater detail the infrastructure and building block choices for enterprise architects and how to address the performance, scalability, and velocity challenges of Big Data in the enterprise.

Red Hat Webcast

  • Get Your Online Presence Ready for the New Now: Accelerate Your Business With an Elastic Java Infrastructure from JBoss and Azul » The web and web applications have become a core component of how businesses interact with their customers. From their early days as electronic brochures, e-Commerce sites and customer portals have evolved into mission-critical, interactive platforms where availability and scalability are critical to achieving business benefits. But, ensuring that the technology behind these highly interactive portals can perform consistently and keep pace with business innovations and market change is challenging. So how can your business infrastructure not just survive but flourish in the “new now”, where online customer demands continue to increase while pressure to reduce costs continue to mount? The solution for accelerating your business may be easier than you think and far less invasive than you imagine. JBoss Middleware by Red Hat and Azul Systems have teamed to create a solution for e-Commerce and customer portals that improves response times, reduces downtime, and speeds time to market – all while reducing the costs to develop, deploy and maintain web-centric applications. We’ve created a better value for your technology investment – improved performance at reduced cost. This on-demand webcast will help you to understand more about these complementary technologies and how they can help you deliver a great online experience for your customers.

Azul Technical Webinar Series

  • The Java Evolution Mismatch: Why you need a better JVM - Functionality is great, but what about performance? Java started life as a toy platform and quickly became an enterprise tool. Early on, evolution in performance and scalability went hand in hand with functionality improvements. However, virtually all subsequent improvements to the Java platform were in features and scope, with basic performance remaining largely unchanged. The result is that modern Java apps are powerful and flexible, but their performance can be iffy. Application instances now have a hard time consuming even a small fraction of entry level modern servers without incurring unacceptable and detrimental effects. In this 25-minute Webinar, Azul CTO Gil Tene explains how the Zing Java runtime platform eliminates the evolution mismatch and allows enterprises to consistently and reliably power their applications, making full use of modern server capabilities.
  • What's Inside a JVM? - Learn what a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is and what it does for your Java applications in this webinar. Eva Andreasson of Azul Systems provides insights into the inner workings of a Java Virtual Machine and some drill down on what compilers and garbage collectors do, so that you don’t have to worry about it while programming your Java application. In particular, you will learn about common optimizations, well established garbage collection algorithms, and what the current biggest challenge with Java scalability is today.
  • What's New in Azul Zing Release 5.0? - Zing 5.0 is Azul Systems newest JVM, designed and optimized for x86-based servers running the Linux operating system. Zing 5.0 is a software-only product, and installs just like any other native JVM -- and runs on a number of standard Linux distros. In this Webcast, Shyam Pillalamarri will walk through the key attributes of Zing 5.0 -- including how it is packaged, changes from Zing 4.1, how Zing 5.0 manages elastic memory, integration with standard visualization and management tools plus how to get an eval download for your team.
  • Introduction to Zing Vision - Real Time Java Performance Management - In this hands-on presentation, Tom Kraljevic (Senior Staff Engineer, Azul Systems) provides an overview of Zing Vision. Unique in the industry, Zing Vision is an analysis tool designed for use on production systems without having an impact on performance. This webinar covers the key attributes of Zing Vision and shows how the tool is an ideal complement to other, more development-focused Java performance tools. 
  • What's New in Azul Zing 4.1 » In early June Azul made the latest version of our Zing JVM and Java runtime platform generally available. Zing 4.1 is a major upgrade and includes enhanced support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, new virtual appliance configurations plus the ability to utilize up to 64 CPU cores and heap sizes greater than 500 GB in a single Zing instance. In this 30-minute webinar, Shyam Pillalamarri, Azul Systems VP of Engineering, will take you through many of the key changes and upgrades in Zing 4.1 -- highlighting areas of improved performance, insights from early adopters, and a look ahead to Zing 4.2

Azul CTO Webinar Series

  • Elasticity and Smooth Scalability for Java Deployments - Resource elasticity is important for both the efficiency and resilience of modern applications. However, today's dominant application runtimes (such as the Java Virtual Machine) are currently built to be inherently rigid in memory resources. In this webinar, Gil Tene, CTO, Azul Systems, Inc. discusses the need for elastic resource consumption and management. Gil also details how Memory Elasticity can now be seamlessly brought to Java applications, making them naturally elastic, resilient, and good citizens for elastic and cloud environments. 
  • Java GC and the Application Memory Wall » The "memory wall", first predicted in the mid 1990's in a paper titled "Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious", was supposed to have emerged by now. However, the typical application instance still only utilizes 5-10% of a modern server's capacity, and the percentage is dropping. In this Webinar, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will introduce the notion of the Application Memory Wall, and discuss the dominant factors limiting the scale and performance of modern server application instances. Gil will show how GC behavior has come to dominate application scale and architecture decisions, highlight the resulting constraints and challenges in effectively utilizing current- generation servers, and discuss innovations that may make the 'Application Memory Wall' disappear in the near future.
  • Java GC and the Application Memory Wall, Part 2: In this second of a three-part webinar series, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) analyzes the key technical challenges that have led to the emergence of the Application Memory Wall. Gil reviews the state of the art in garbage collection within managed runtimes in general, and in commercial Java Virtual Machines in particular. The focus is on the limitations and likely causes of the observed decade-long stagnation in application instance memory growth and consumption. Gil outlines the main technical problem areas that need industry attention and focus, and shows how solving these problems can lead to a post-Wall era - an era in which applications will once again be free to productively and naturally consume the abundant compute resources available in modern servers.
  • Java GC and the Application Memory Wall Part 3 - In this third of a three-part webinar series, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) examines practical solutions to the Application Memory Wall problem. Gil shows how solving the key technical limitations that lead to the decade-long stagnation in application memory instance growth can lead to the post-Wall era: an era in which applications will once again be free to productively and naturally consume the abundant compute resources available in modern servers.
  • Java without GC pauses: Moore's Law and living in a virtualized world » Commodity memory and compute capacities have far outpaced the ability of Java platforms to consume them effectively. Application instances are able to utilize only a small and shrinking fraction of a common server's abilities before responsiveness, consistency and service level issues become hard to bear. The behavior of Garbage Collection is at the heart of this accelerating trend, and new trends towards virtualized systems and Cloud deployments can be viewed either as further threats, or as opportunities for innovative solutions to a lingering problem. In this webinar, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will detail the practical considerations & limitations of current garbage collected systems, discuss the importance of solving the GC problem once and for all at enterprise scale, explain how virtualization technologies can actually be used to deliver a robust solution, and lead us to a Java world with no more GC pauses.
  • Overcoming Common Pitfalls in Java Application Characterization » If you've ever tried to model the impact of variable transaction response times on your business-critical application (or your bottom line) -- you know that few tools are available that provide a complete view of a running system. In addition, terms like average response time and three, four, or even five nines can mask problems that can't be addressed at the application level -- because their cause may be the JVM. In this Webinar, Gil Tene, Azul Systems CTO, will take you through a series of key concepts that will help you better describe -- and better understand what is happening at runtime.
  • Pauseless Garbage Collection and Its Impact » In this Webinar, Gil Tene, Azul Systems CTO, outlines exactly how Azul is able to deliver a truly pauseless garbage collection (GC) that is otherwise transparent to the production software stack, and deployed on commodity Intel hardware. Beyond that, Gil outlines, in real terms, the impact of pauseless operation on performance, scalability, transaction throughput – and more importantly on your ability to get systems into production faster, with far less tuning while delivering predictable performance. If your business or operation has a rigorous SLA, if you face scalability challenges or unpredictable surges in demand, your need to understand how Azul’s Zing JVM and pauseless garbage collection can have an immediate and positive impact on your operations.

Introductory Webinar Series on the Zing Platform

  • Part 1: The Zing JVM: Removing Barriers to Application Scalability » Listen to Gil Tene, Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder of Azul systems as he discusses the current barriers to Java scalability and how to remove them. Learn how Azul's groundbreaking technology for Java applications, now available as an elastic software platform, has enabled Fortune 500 companies to achieve orders of magnitude increases in throughput and 50% decreases in TCO with no application changes.
  • Part 2: The Zing Java-Optimized Runtime Environment: The Best Platform for Java Applications » Scaling Java application instances beyond a few GBs of memory takes more than simply deploying a 64-bit Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It requires a highly optimized and integrated Java runtime stack where all the layers work in concert (e.g. from the JVM to OS kernel) to provide a responsive, elastic, and scalable runtime environment. In this webinar, discover how Zing Platform components, including the Zing JVM, Zing Java Virtual Appliance and Zing management tools combine to create a highly integrated and optimized runtime stack. This stack allows Java applications to achieve orders of magnitude improvements in responsiveness, scalability, and throughput.
  • Part 3: Zing Vision: True, Zero-Overhead Production Visibility and Diagnostics » Current Java runtimes (a.k.a. JVMs) and applications are notorious for their "black box" nature. Although rich Java development tools exist, none of them can be used in mission-critical production environments without significantly impacting the running application. With this limited ability to debug and fine-tune production deployments, problem resolution times can increase significantly. In this webinar, understand Zing's unique, non-intrusive, always-on JVM instrumentation and see first-hand how the Zing Vision (ZVision) visibility tool can enable faster diagnosis of the most troubling issues when they happen, where they happen to avoid costly downtime.
  • Part 4: The Zing RC: Making Java Virtualization Practical » Hardware virtualization is ubiquitous and Clouds are growing in popularity, but Java runtimes and frameworks still face challenges in providing application responsiveness, consistency and scale when deployed in virtualized environments. In this webinar, we explore new deployment paradigms which can dramatically improve application performance and accelerate your adoption of virtualization for Java deployments.

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