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- Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras Establishes Efficient Administrative Systems to Support Airline Launch
- Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras wanted to implement a robust solution to support operations in record time for an airline and develop in-house tax, accounting, and human resource processes, replacing outsourced solutions to reduce costs. The challenge was to comply with requirements imposed by regulatory agencies, including Brazil's Civil Aviation National...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- BEA runs Java on bare (virtual) metal
- BEA Weblogic Server Virtual Edition doesn't run on Windows. It doesn't run on Linux, or MacOSX, or FreeBSD, AmigaDOS, CP/M, OS/2, or any other operating system you can think of.It runs directly on an x86 hypervisor.A hypervisor is a thin layer of low level code that sits just above...
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Extreme Transaction Processing: Technologies to Watch
- Extreme transaction processing XTP is an emerging application style aimed at enabling the implementation of large-scale, business-critical, transactional applications on the basis of distributed architectures implemented by leveraging commodity hardware and standards-based software. This Gartner research discusses a set of emerging XTP-enabling technologies, including Azul Compute Appliances.
- White papers 2007-02-13
- Photos: Azul Systems' new Java servers
- The centralized machines are revved up by the second-generation Vega 2 processor, which has 48 cores.
- Image galleries 2006-12-04
- Day 4: JavaOne summary
- Today was a bit more subdued during the day but if you could stand the lines it looks like the annual After Dark party was a big hit. Here's a synopsis of the sessions I went to on Day 4 of JavaOne week (or day 3 if you don't count...
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- Is it time to consolidate your Java apps? Onto a mainframe?
- For the better part of three decades now, IBM's mainframes -- often referred to as big iron -- have been coming under assault from smaller iron: minicomputers and servers that may not by themselves have the sheer horsepower to keep up with a mainframe but can often get the...
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Sun countersues start-up Azul
- Sun countersues start-up Azul$un should shut upand stop bulling smaller rivals.They claim they promote open source and yet use patents against smaller competitors.$un the ‘innovators' look more and more like the M$ hypocrites."These employees were specifically targeted for recruiting by Azul"... as supposed to who? people they don't need.I...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Java hardware start-up Azul sues Sun
- Java hardware start-up Azul sues SunSun's DIH mentalitySun has a DIH (Dont-Invent-Here) mentality. Check out Wikipedia if you have not heard of this before. For example, Sun claims it supports OSS. In truth, Sun only supports OSS that it controls. OpenOffice committers have to sign...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-15
- Time to clear out those J2EE boxes
- I'm always on the look-out for ways to slash spending on application servers. Here's a new one: utility processing for VM-based applications. Azul Systems says that its "unbound compute" appliances can help clear out racks and racks of servers by diverting Java VM calls to the company's proprietary SMP boxes,...
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
- Sun marketing exec heads to start-up Azul
- Shahin Khan has joined start-up Azul Systems, which builds computing hardware to accelerate the execution of Java software. Sun Microsystems' former chief competitive officer Shahin Khan has joined Azul Systems, the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up plans to announce on Thursday. Khan, who most recently led Sun's high-performance...
- News items 2004-11-04
- Technology Audit: Butler Group Evaluates Industry's First Network Attached Processing Solution
- This Butler Group report describes the Azul Compute Appliance, the industry's first Network Attached Processing NAP solution that's purpose-built to meet the power and processing demands of computationally intensive and multi-threaded Java applications. The paper explains how Azul's Compute Appliances, which can be pooled to provide virtually unlimited processing capacity,...
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- Webcast: The Growing Need for Extreme Transactional Processing (XTP) in the Real-Time Enterprise
- This on-demand Webcast from Azul Systems features Massimo Pezzini, Research VP and Distinguished Analyst for Gartner. Pezzini discusses Extreme Transactional Processing XTP and how it enables companies to respond faster to business events. He also describes the business drivers behind the escalation of transactional workloads and explains why Gartner is...
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- Azul Systems - Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances
- With trading volumes doubling every year, this multinational bank needed to find a way to support growth projections with its existing infrastructure or risk severe business consequences. To solve this challenge, the company had to find a way to make its Java™ environments run faster, while at the same time...
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- Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances
- This case study explains how a leading financial services firm solved the performance problems that plagued its Java-based trading applications. The paper describes the problems the bank was having and explains why the company was looking for a solution that could: Deliver extraordinary performance and scalability ...
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- Apple's Grand Central threat to Microsoft
- Apple's quiet preview of OS X.6 - Snow Leopard - promises ". . . unrivaled support for multi-core processors . . . " through a "new set of technologies" named Grand Central. What makes Grand Central so powerful - and how can Microsoft respond? Fresh from Google's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Hardware assists to virtualization
- As various forms of software virtualization technology have been developed, some folks have looked at the problems software virtualization technology is attempting to address and have thought something different. They thought about the functions that applications and systems were executing, decomposed those functions into individual hardware actions and then went...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Implement Parallel Processing in Your Java Applications
- Computing is moving toward multi-core systems which allows the containing computer to exhibit the same thread-level parallelism as a system with multiple CPUs, which represents a huge benefit in overall system throughput for properly designed applications. With manufacturers offering systems with more than one multi-core CPU - and Azul Systems...
- White papers 2007-04-10
- 768 cores ought to be enough for anybody
- Bill Gates is often quoted as saying "640K ought to be enough for anybody." He denies it, but at the time (c. 1981) 640K must have seemed like a vast amount of memory. Were in a similar situation today as dual- and quad-core processors are becoming mainstream. How will we...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Sun puts 16 cores on its 'Rock' chip
- Sun puts 16 cores on its 'Rock' chipsame old story?faster machines everday.... how about faster disks? I would add some highend SSDs to take advantage of such servers.Not enterprise ready...These new Sun servers are not ready for the enterprise. My Dell PowerEdge servers represent the most robust hardware on the...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Running .NET apps at the speed of accelerated Java
- When most people talk about the integration of .NET and Java, the first thought that comes to mind is the XML-based services oriented architecture that Microsoft and IBM first had in mind when they formed the Web services Interoperability Organization (the WS-I). The idea, which is old hat...
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
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