Articles from Azul

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the expansion of its partnership with OpenValue into North America, bringing OpenValue’s industry-leading Java migration services, and newly introduced Java migration guarantees which are available globally, to Azul customers and global reseller partners. Designed to give enterprises greater assurance and predictability when transitioning from costly and restrictive Oracle Java, OpenValue’s certified Java migration services now are being coupled with Java migration assurances to provide guaranteed outcomes on project timelines and budgets. The expanded partnership helps customers across Europe and North America safely and efficiently migrate their Java estates to Azul Platform Core and Azul Platform Prime, while optimizing performance and controlling license costs.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced an enhancement to Azul Intelligence Cloud, a breakthrough capability in Azul Vulnerability Detection that brings unprecedented precision to detection of Java application security vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional AppSec or APM tools that flag vulnerabilities by matching component file names or SBOM information — often leading to an overwhelming number of security false positives — Azul Vulnerability Detection uses class-level production runtime data to detect vulnerabilities. This enables organizations to focus only on the code paths that are actually used, delivering 100x to 1,000x reduction in false positives compared to other tools, empowering DevOps teams to prioritize and remediate real risks faster, improve security posture and dramatically boost developer productivity.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, and JetBrains, the leading provider of professional software development tools and creator of the Kotlin programming language, today announced a strategic technical collaboration to enhance the runtime performance and scalability of web and server-side Kotlin applications. This strategic collaboration empowers Kotlin teams to accelerate development cycles and optimize application performance, helping them support their business priorities while driving greater operational efficiency.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the winners of its inaugural Azul Java Hero Awards. This year's awards recognized 17 organizations, teams and individual champions globally who achieved innovative world-class results with Java to help their businesses become more cost-effective, successful and efficient.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, has been honored with three Stevie awards for Azul Platform Prime, including two gold Stevie awards from The International Business Awards in the Software Development Solution of the Year and Cloud Application/Service of the Year categories. The company also brought home a silver Stevie Award for Technology Excellence in the Technology Breakthrough of the Year category.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today released its global Oracle Java Usage, Pricing & Migration Survey and Report, conducted to assess the Java community’s response to Oracle’s pricing, policies and support for Java. The report shows that 86% of Oracle Java users are migrating all or some of their use with reasons including cost, a preference for open source, uncertainty over Oracle’s ongoing pricing changes and the threat of a Java usage audit.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced strong growth and continued momentum across the Asia Pacific region as organizations turn to its OpenJDK solutions to address cost and performance challenges in the wake of Oracle’s Java SE pricing change and rising cloud expenses.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced accelerated growth last year across its product portfolio and geographies, including unprecedented demand for its OpenJDK products in the wake of Oracle’s Java SE pricing policy change and enterprises grappling with soaring cloud costs.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, released its first annual Azul State of Java Survey & Report today, an authoritative guide to understanding the current pulse, trajectory and sentiments surrounding Java. The report includes responses from more than 2,000 Java users globally to unveil unparalleled insights into how Java holds its ground in today’s dynamic technology environment and its impact on enterprises large and small.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced Code Inventory, a new feature of Azul Vulnerability Detection that provides developers and DevOps teams a precise catalog of the source code actually used in production by Java applications, making it easy to accurately identify dead and unused code for removal. Code Inventory slashes the time and burden of maintaining and testing code that is not being used, significantly improving developer productivity and ultimately saving money. Available now, Code Inventory collects information in production with no performance penalty, requires no changes to Java applications and is included at no additional charge for Azul Vulnerability Detection customers.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced ReadyNow Orchestrator (RNO), a new feature of Azul Platform Prime powered by ReadyNow technology that slashes warmup time for Java applications, enabling significant improvements to operational efficiencies and optimization of cloud costs. Available now, ReadyNow Orchestrator requires no changes to Java applications and is included at no additional charge for Azul Platform Prime customers.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the general availability of and commercial support for Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK for Java 17 including CRaC functionality. One of the most highly anticipated features recently in the Java community, Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) represents a major milestone toward improving Java startup and warmup times. It is ideal for serverless functions, containers, microservices and other use cases.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the expansion of its global PartnerConnect program. Azul’s channel program offers significant growth and revenue opportunities with new tiered benefits, higher discounts, market development funds (MDF), and new enablement programs for partners helping customers achieve the most out of their Java application and Java security ecosystems.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced that its high-performance Java runtime, Azul Platform Prime, now supports 64-bit Arm architectures including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Together, this pairing allows customers to optimize cloud costs, and boost the performance of cloud-native applications, popular open-source technologies and Java-based frameworks.

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced Azul Vulnerability Detection, a new SaaS product that continuously detects known security vulnerabilities that exist in Java applications. By eliminating false positives and with no performance impact, Azul Vulnerability Detection is ideal for in-production use and addresses the rapidly increasing enterprise risk around software supply chain attacks.

Azul announced today that Members Exchange (MEMX), a market operator founded by a diverse group of participants to benefit all investors, has chosen Azul Platform Prime and Azul Platform Core as the runtimes for its entire Java estate.

Today Azul announced Azul Intelligence Cloud, a new family of products that apply cloud resources to analyze and optimize Java fleets and provide actionable intelligence. Intelligence Cloud’s first offering, Cloud Native Compiler, brings elasticity to Java JIT compilation, enhancing the performance of Java applications in any compute environment, including microservices-based and cloud-native applications.

Azul, provider of the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise and the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced that Chess.com, the world’s largest online chess site, is using Azul Platform Prime to improve the real-time gaming experience for its millions of users by making it more reliable and responsive.

Azul, provider of the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise, and the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced that it has expanded its leadership team with the additions of two accomplished executives, Ian Whiting as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Martin Van Ryswyk as Chief Product Officer (CPO), both reporting to Scott Sellers, Azul’s co-founder, president and CEO.

Azul, provider of the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise, and the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the immediate availability of commercial support for the Eclipse Temurin™ OpenJDK distribution as part of its Azul Platform Core offering. Enterprises adopting OpenJDK now have additional choices of contractually supported Java distributions for their development and production environments, from desktops to on-premise to cloud deployments.

Azul today announced new products and pricing for customers and partners who rely on Azul for the Java that they love. The effort is aimed at accelerating Azul’s position in the modern cloud enterprise, a new paradigm where the cloud intersects with software development and deployment, by prioritizing customers’ success, maintaining unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence, and advancing Java through community leadership. Capitalizing on the $2.5B Java market opportunity for Azul1, which the company highlighted in May 2020, the company is introducing the Azul Platform which includes Azul Platform Core, Azul Platform Prime and Azul Intelligence Cloud.

Azul, provider of the world’s most trusted open-source Java platform, today announced that in 2020 it more than doubled the number of channel partners that sell, support and enable its products. The company signed 27 new partners worldwide last year, bringing the total to 53 at the end of 2020 and closed several seven-figure dollar transactions led by partners. Over the last two years, Azul has increased its channel business by more than 5x.