Azul Systems Selected by Bear Stearns

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Azul Systems today announced that Bear Stearns, a leading global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm, has chosen to implement Azul Vega 2 Compute Appliances to cost-effectively scale its derivatives trading applications. Azul Systems' Vega 2 processor has a Java-optimized instruction set, hardware-assisted garbage collection and support for optimistic thread concurrency.

"Bear Stearns was looking for a highly scaleable technology solution for the Calypso trading application," said Sandeep Saksena, senior managing director at Bear Stearns. "Azul was chosen for its ability to deliver memory capacity while eliminating the application delays usually associated with large-scale Java deployments."

"Azul Systems has made long application pause times, poor throughput and inconsistent response times a thing of the past for Java applications," said Scott Sellers, president and CEO of Azul Systems. "As Bear Stearns and other respected financial institutions have found, Azul ensures flawless performance, a must in today's highly competitive and cost-sensitive market. Only Azul has been able to bring such a revolutionary offering to market, making traditional computing infrastructures seem cumbersome and antiquated."

About Azul Systems

Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service to transaction-intensive applications, such as those built on the Java(TM) platform. Azul Compute Appliances enable transparent, massively scalable infrastructure to support the business priorities of today's most demanding enterprise environments and deliver increased capabilities, capacity and utilization at a fraction of the cost of traditional computing models. More information on Azul Systems can be found at http://www.azulsystems.com.

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