Latest Information from Azul Systems http://www.azulsystems.com/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT http://www.azulsystems.com/images/logo_azul.gif http://www.azulsystems.com/ Azul launched Vega 3 in May; it's the third generation of its Java offload appliances that offer a pool of processor and memory resources for multiple applications from Solaris, Linux, HP-UX or IBM AIX operating systems. The original Vega 1, launched back in 2005, scaled up to 284 cores with 200GB of memory. Vega 3 now takes that up to 864 cores and 768GB. http://www.azulsystems.com/products/analyst_report/ar_3genapps.pdf The 451 Group's IT evolution model shows how grid computing has been useful for improving performance and resource sharing, virtualization for efficiency, utility for billing and recharge discipline, and service-oriented architecture for reusability and business process alignment. http://www.azulsystems.com/products/analyst_report/ar_wachovia.pdf Vega 3 Compute Appliance recorded world record results in the industry-standard SPECjbb2005 benchmark, further demonstrating the company's commitment to providing customers with the highest performing solutions for Java enterprise computing. http://www.azulsystems.com/press/062008_specjbb.htm Joint Solution for High Performance B2B Collaboration and Sustainability for Complex Financial Services IT Environments http://www.azulsystems.com/press/062008_axway.htm Carbonfund.org, one of the country's leading carbon offset organizations, announced today a new partnership with Azul Systems, the award-winning innovator behind server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as shared network service. While providing high-end performance products for businesses and increasing data center efficiencies, Azul Systems will go carbon neutral by offsetting its carbon emissions through Carbonfund.org's Carbonfree Business Program. http://www.azulsystems.com/press/062008_carbonfund.htm Azul Systems, today announced its Green in Mind Commitment today, an initiative dedicated to consistently acting in an environmentally conscious way in all aspects of business. The Green in Mind Commitment furthers the company's dedication to operate in an environmentally-friendly way. http://www.azulsystems.com/press/052008_green.htm The Azul Vega 3 7300 and 3300 Series compute appliances offer an unprecedented amount of highly scalable compute capacity for Java-based applications, with up to 864 processor cores and 768 GB of memory in a flat SMP configuration. The unique software and hardware-assisted features of the Azul solution enable applications to transparently tap into this capacity over the network and reach unprecedented levels of scalability, throughput, and performance consistency. With this production-proven architecture the Azul Vega 3 Series has set the performance record on industry standard SPECjbb2005 and XMLMark tests. http://www.azulsystems.com/press/052008_vega3.htm Application-specific systems are starting to emerge, partly as a result of new virtualization technologies that hide differences in hardware from the software stack. How far are things likely to go? http://www.azulsystems.com/news/documents/The_451_Group_Mis_451_Mis_Report.htm