software and hardware founded 2002 headquarters sunnyvale california united states key people scott sellers ceo president and co founder anya barski vice president of engineering eric graber vice president of sales gil tene vice president of technology and cto co founder products computer software website http www.azul.com azul systems inc. a privately held company develops runtime platforms for executing java based applications . founded in march 2002 azul systems is headquartered in sunnyvale california with offices in london united kingdom ; saint petersburg russia and bangalore india . 1 contents 1 products 2 company history 2.1 legal issues 3 finances 4 production systems 5 references 6 external links products edit azul produces zing a java virtual machine jvm and runtime platform for java applications that is designed to remove memory limitations and scale elastically . the company was formerly known for its vega java compute appliances jcas specialized hardware designed to massively scale the usable compute resources available to java applications . zing utilizes and improves on the software technology developed for the vega hardware . 2 zing became generally available october 19 2010 . the product includes a jvm management tool and monitoring tool . 3 zing is based on established technology from azul that allows existing java applications to scale to dozens of cpu cores and hundreds of gigabytes of memory elastically meaning resources can also scale up and down based on real time demands and without garbage collection pauses present in other java runtimes . 4 zing is compliant with the java se standard and is based on oracle s hotspot . 5 where a typical java virtual machine uses static heap sizes and reaches a practical size limitation due to garbage collection pauses zing implements azul s c4 continuously concurrent compacting collector garbage collection software technology allowing heap sizes of hundreds of gbs without pauses . 6 zing also utilizes azul s technology for elastic memory which allows memory heaps for java instances to grow and shrink based on load . this dynamic heap scaling removes the need for most jvm and gc tuning . zing also incorporates readynow technology to shorten warm up time and avoid de optimization during runs . 7 the zing vision tool provides low overhead production visibility of running java applications using statistical information that is already available from processing occurring within the jre . 8 zing is available for linux and requires x86 based hardware with intel nehalem or amd opteron processors . 9 azul s java compute appliances jcas were designed to massively scale up the usable compute resources available to java applications . a proxy java virtual machine jvm installed on the existing system will transparently redeploy java applications to the azul appliance the latest version of which the vega 3 can contain up to 864 processor cores and 768 gb of memory . 10 open source azul distributes and supports zulu and zulu enterprise a certified binary build of openjdk . the initial release in september 2013 supported java 7 and 6 and ran on windows 2008 r2 and 2012 on the windows azure cloud . 11 on january 21 2014 azul announced zulu support for multiple linux versions as well as zulu enterprise which has subscription support options . 12 support for java 8 was added in april 2014 and mac os x support was added in june 2014 . 13 in september 2014 zulu was extended to support docker . 14 zulu embedded which allows developers to customize the build footprint was released in march 2015 . 15 developed for manufacturers in the embedded mobile and internet of things iot markets each zulu embedded build is verified by azul using the java community technology compatibility kit tck and incorporates the latest openjdk bug fixes and security patches . azul produces the jhiccup open source performance measurement tool for java applications . it is designed to measure the stalls or hiccups caused by an application s underlying java platform . 16 company history edit azul systems was founded by scott sellers now president & ceo shyam pillalamarri vp of engineering and gil tene cto . the first compute appliances offered in april 2005 were the 960 1920 and 3840 consisting of 96 192 and 384 processor cores respectively . 17 stephen dewitt previously held the position of ceo . 18 legal issues edit azul systems was approached in 2005 by sun microsystems who offered a licensing deal for patents it claimed azul had violated . 19 in march 2006 azul systems sued sun microsystems asking a u.s. district court in northern california to rule on the issue of patent infringement . in may 2006 sun microsystems sued azul systems in federal court in san jose ca claiming patent infringement and violation of a non competitive agreement with former azul ceo stephen dewitt also a former sun employee . both parties agreed to the terms of an undisclosed settlement in june 2007 prior to either suit going to trial . 20 finances edit based on public filings 21 azul has raised more than 200m in financing to date . date type amount 2003 01 22 series a 7 000 000 2003 03 04 series a 1 027 162 2003 05 29 series b 13 572 021 2004 05 19 series c 34 999 994 2005 02 16 series d 29 473 400 2006 01 13 series e 42 189 628 2007 05 31 bridge 10 016 758 2007 08 30 series f 40 552 043 2007 12 04 series f 18 557 590 2008 11 26 series 2 9 408 124 major investors include accel partners austin ventures credit suisse meritech capital partners redpoint ventures velocity interactive group and worldview technology partners . 22 comventures and jvax investment group have also invested in azul . 23 production systems edit azul and microsoft announce zulu embedded for windows iot on october 26 2015 24 providing a certified openjdk based java development and runtime environment for windows 10 iot core . azul announces early access program for zulu supporting java 9 on october 26 2015 . 25 azul zing version 15.09 was released on october 20 2015 . 26 azul announces on 7 october 2015 27 zing available as amazon machine images amis running on red hat enterprise linux on amazon web services . azul joined canonical s charm partner programme juju on july 22 2015 and released zulu charms . 28 azul zulu 8.7 was released in may 2015 . it added support for oracle enterprise linux and incorporated the latest openjdk updates . azul zulu 8.4 was released october 31 2014 . it added mac os x 10.10 yosemite support ; deb packaging apt get repository distribution and docker for debian jessie and wheezy 7.x releases on intel x86 64 ; and new zulu docker containers for debian and centos . 29 azul zing version 14.09 was released in september 2014 . this version added java se 8 support support for red hat enterprise linux 7.0 and ubuntu operating system 14.04 lts memory module autobuild for flexible linux version support and added the ability to save and reuse accumulated compiler optimizations between runs . 30 31 azul zulu dockerfiles docker were made available on the docker hub in september 2014 . 32 azul zulu for mac os x was released in june 2014 . 33 azul zulu version 8.0 with java se 8 support was released in april 2014 . 34 azul zing version 5.9 was released in march 2014 . the major new feature was de optimization control called readynow . 35 azul zulu for java 6 and multiple linux versions was released in january 2014 . 36 azul zulu was released in september 2013 . zulu is a supported build of openjdk . the initial release runs on windows 2008 r2 and 2012 on the microsoft azure cloud . 37 zing platform edition with websphere was released in may 2013 . the product integrates ibm websphere application server with azul zing . 38 zing 5.5 was released in october 2012 with enhanced memory leak detection and support for amazon ec2 and vmware based instances . 39 zing 5.2 was announced in april 2012 with support for ubuntu linux 10.04 lts ubuntu linux and new management tools for controlling deployments with multiple zing jvm instances . 40 zing 5.1 was released in february 2012 with support for suse linux enterprise server suse linux enterprise server . 41 zing 5.0 was released in november 2011 and was announced as the company s first fully native jvm for linux linux . 42 zing 4.1 was released in may 2011 adding support for red hat enterprise linux 6 red hat enterprise linux kernel based virtual machine kvm kernel based virtual machine and jboss enterprise application platform eap 5.1 jboss enterprise application platform . the company indicated this was their first bare metal implementation . 43 azul systems released zing 4.0 in october 2010 . 44 azul systems released the vega 2 7200 series in june 2007 . the 7200 series contains up to 768 processing cores on 16 processor chips with 768 gb of memory . azul designed the 48 core vega 2 processor chip . taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company tsmc fabricated the vega 2 processor . 45 notable companies utilizing the 7200 series include credit suisse wachovia british telecom and transunion . azul systems released the vega 3 7300 series in may 2008 . the 7300 series contains up to 864 processing cores with 768 gb of memory . 46 references edit company locations . azul systems . http www.infoq.com interviews gil tene azul zing azul puts the zing in java infoq december 30 2010 http www.itjungle.com tfh tfh062810 story08.html azul readies x64 based java virtual appliance it jungle june 28 2010 http java.sys con.com node 1443194 azul zings its java hardware poof it s software java developer s journal june 24 2010 . http www.azulsystems.com products zing whatisit product page http www.azulsystems.com technology c4 garbage collector azul web site page describing c4 garbage collection algorithm http www.drdobbs.com jvm azul readynow blasts heat on java warm u 240166623 dr. dobbs article http www.azulsystems.com press azul announces general availability zingtm elastic runtime 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