Who are Azul competitors?
Azul Compute Appliances are complementary technologies to most traditional server deployments, virtualization solutions and grid technologies. There are no direct competitors to Azul, just less efficient means of scaling large applications. Traditional application scaling models such as horizontal (scale out) or vertical (scale up) scaling models are no longer delivering the value they once did due to the tremendous growth of new applications and services which are putting further burden on datacenter budgets and real estate, power and cooling constraints. Traditional server architectures are not designed for the highly multi-threaded and garbage collected nature of today’s transaction-intensive, Java based-applications. This evidences itself in spreading large applications across lots of low-utilized servers or partitions in order to avoid application response time problems and to be able to accommodate spikes in workload. Azul Compute Appliances allow customers to consolidate instanc
