Azul’s Platform Prime Earns Three Stevie Awards Including Gold for Software Development Solution of the Year and Cloud Application/Service of the Year

Platform Prime also recognized for Technology Breakthrough of the Year

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 Platform Prime is an enhanced build of OpenJDK that reduces cloud infrastructure costs while improving application performance, allowing companies to slash expenses by 20%+ for servers and cloud compute instances. Platform Prime increases DevOps productivity by reducing time spent tuning and working around performance issues, and in turn enabling teams to spend more time delivering new features.

With Azul Platform Prime, companies are reducing cloud waste and improving application performance for Java applications and frameworks without changing or recompiling code. It is ideal for demanding, business-critical applications and for companies with large fleets of Java-based applications or infrastructure.

Platform Prime was recognized for the tangible benefits it delivers to customers, including:

• Enabling an 80% improvement in response times on a high-performance trading company’s platform.
• Reducing the front-end server footprint by 30% and the database service footprint by 50% for a large AdTech company.
• Decreasing CPU use for a business-critical workload by 20-25% for a UK gaming company, reducing their infrastructure costs overall.
• Removing 2,190 hours per year in performance tuning and accelerating fraud detection in microseconds at high volumes for a global credit card and payment processing company.

The first annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence celebrate the accomplishments of individuals, teams, and organizations shaping the future of technology across all industry sectors. More than 600 nominations from organizations of all sizes in 21 nations and territories were submitted for this inaugural event.

“We congratulate all of the winners in the inaugural edition of the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence for their outstanding performance, and we look forward to celebrating their achievements on September 16,” said Stevie’s president Maggie Miller.

In its 21^st year, the International Business Awards are a premier business awards program that recognizes individuals and organizations from public and private, for-profit and non-profit, and large and small organizations in virtually every industry. This year’s awards drew more than 3,600 nominations from 62 nations and territories.

“At Azul, we recognize the complexity of balancing cloud costs with performance demands,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “Azul Platform Prime was specifically designed to tackle these challenges head-on, providing enterprises with a clear choice to lower cloud costs while improving Java application performance and enhancing DevOps productivity. Earning this Hat Trick of awards underscores our dedication to delivering solutions that empower technical and business leaders to innovate in the cloud without compromising on performance, operational efficiency or cost-effectiveness.”

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About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations and territories. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

About Azul Systems Inc.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Azul provides the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise. Azul is the only company 100% focused on Java. Millions of Java developers, hundreds of millions of devices and the world’s most highly regarded businesses trust Azul to power their applications with exceptional capabilities, performance, security, value, and success. Azul customers include 36% of the Fortune 100, 50% of Forbes top-10 World’s Most Valuable Brands, all 10 of the world’s top-10 financial trading companies and leading brands like Avaya, Bazaarvoice, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, LG, Mastercard, Mizuho, Priceline, Salesforce, Software AG and Workday. Learn more at azul.com and follow us @azulsystems.

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