Oct, 2010 : Azul Systems Announces the General Availability of Zing

📅 October 20, 2010 - Company launches a Java runtime platform optimized for virtualization and cloud deployments.

Azul Systems, a Java platform provider, yesterday announced the general availability of Zing, an elastic runtime platform for Java applications. The company mentions that Zing is a scalable, low latency Java runtime platform designed to improve application throughput, availability, and manageability, while also enhancing infrastructure and operational efficiency. It is a versatile platform for deploying Java applications of all sizes and configurations, and is especially suited for high volume applications where response times are important such as web portals, trading platforms and e-commerce websites. Zing is also the only Java runtime platform specifically designed and optimized for virtualized and cloud environments.

It explains the Zing platform features and benefits for Java applications optimized for virtualization and cloud computing:

• Optimized for Virtualization and Cloud Computing - The Zing Platform is the only Java runtime platform specifically designed and optimized for virtualized and cloud environments, allowing Java applications to run and perform better virtualized than non-virtualized.
• Superior Responsiveness, Scale, and Throughput - Zing eliminates common Java scalability limitations such as Garbage Collection pauses and enables Java application instances to dynamically and reliably scale to dozens of CPU cores and hundreds of gigabytes of memory, enabling application response time consistency, capacity, and sustained throughput. In comparative testing of a commonly deployed portal workload, Zing sustains consistent service levels while carrying 18x as many concurrent users and simultaneously improving response times by 7x.
• Improved Application Availability and Infrastructure Efficiency - Individual JVM instances deployed on the Zing Platform automatically scale up and down both memory and CPU resources based on real-time demands, eliminating the rigid and inefficient nature of current Java deployments. Java applications use a minimum footprint and share resources during off-peak periods, but are able to dynamically scale to achieve required response time and availability metrics even under extreme loads.
• Deep Application Visibility in Production - Zing Vision is a true, zero-overhead, always-on production-time diagnostic and monitoring tool included as part of the Zing Platform that allows administrators to diagnose application problems seamlessly in production, reducing tuning iterations and shortening development lifecycles.
• Simplified Deployments and Manageability - With Zing's unique ability to utilize larger, highly elastic JVMs, 90% fewer Java instances are required to achieve application throughput, response time, and availability requirements. The Zing Resource Controller allows administrators to control deployment topology of their Java applications via a single, centralized console.
• 100% Compatible with Existing Infrastructure and Applications - Zing is fast and easy to incorporate into existing infrastructures, requiring no operating system, virtualization, or application coding changes.
  

The company further explains that Zing includes open source components from the Managed Runtime Initiative (managedruntime.org). Coinciding with the release of Zing for general availability, it will contribute updates to the Managed Runtime Initiative, an open project launched in June of 2010 with the purpose of identifying, developing, and delivering enhanced interfaces and functionality across vertical components of the systems stack in order to improve the execution of managed runtimes, such as Java, Ruby, and .NET. The Managed Runtime Initiative currently includes enhanced OpenJDK runtime and enhanced Linux projects. Zing is now generally available. Pricing is based on an annual subscription per server. Customers can request a trial copy at www.azulsystems.com/zing/trial.

"Zing embodies the culmination of what we've learned over eight years in delivering products and solutions for Java applications in business-critical deployments," said Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul Systems. "Enterprises are finding that scaling and managing Java applications has become increasingly complex, and are demanding a better Java runtime platform for their virtualization and cloud initiatives. With Zing, we dramatically improve Java application deployments and do so with a virtualization-ready architecture that makes Java-in-the-cloud and Platform-as-a-Service offerings practical."