Azul Systems Launch Compute Appliance

HostReview.com
Friday, April 22, 2005; 04:38 PM

Azul Systems™ Inc. (www.azulsystems.com) today introduced the Azul Compute Appliance, the world's greatest capacity single system targeted at virtual-machine based applications such as those using the Java™ platform or the Microsoft® .Net™ framework.

Azul Compute Appliances eliminate capacity planning at the application level, reduce the number of servers required to build out a data center, and simplify management, all without any application-level modifications, binary compatibility requirements, or operating system dependencies.

With data center class reliability, availability, and serviceability, the appliances have been in field trials since last fall. Azul Systems has also announced an alliance with IBM Global Services which will provide North American service and support for Azul Compute Appliances.

"Never before have we seen this level of Java processing for transactions," said JJ Everett, CEO of Everett Consulting, an IT management consulting firm that specializes in large scale implementation of applications based on the popular J2EE™ platform.

Separating the "compute" from the "computer" enables the creation of compute pools that can be accessed from any server on the network without requiring any changes to applications or existing infrastructure.

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