Azul Wins Multiple Industry Awards for Platform Prime and Intelligence Cloud Innovation Excellence

Industry recognition highlights Azul’s customer impact across Java performance, cloud cost optimization and DevOps efficiency

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced a series of industry award wins that emphasize the positive impact Azul Platform Prime and Azul Intelligence Cloud have made on the industry. These awards from several different organizations across multiple categories underscore Azul’s leadership in delivering transformative Java solutions that address critical enterprise challenges around performance optimization, cloud cost management and DevOps efficiency.

The recognition spans prestigious industry programs, including the Stevie International Business Awards, Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, CRN MidMarket 100, and Tech Ascension DevOps Awards, validating Azul’s innovation across its product portfolio.

Azul Platform Prime: Redefining High-Performance Java

Azul Platform Prime, Azul’s high-performance Java platform, earned multiple accolades for its breakthrough approach to Java performance and cloud cost optimization, winning a Gold Stevie Award in the Stevie International Business Awards (Cloud Application/Service category) and an award in the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence (Cloud Application/Service category). Platform Prime’s award-winning innovations center on solving the fundamental challenge that has plagued Java applications for decades – the gap in startup and warmup time, overall speed and its ability to provide reliable and predictable performance. Azul addresses these challenges with its ReadyNow warmup acceleration technology, superior compiled code speed from a faster JIT compiler, and pauseless memory management from its industry leading garbage collector.

The product’s impact is measurable and immediate, with customer implementations demonstrating the real-world value that earned these awards: organizations report material reduction in their server footprint, translating into millions of dollars in cloud infrastructure savings. Platform Prime’s recognition reflects its unique position as the most scalable JVM on the market, delivering improved real-time optimizations that enables Java applications and JVM-based workloads to start fast, run fast and stay fast across any compute platform, while also addressing the growing enterprise imperative for optimizing cloud spend.

Azul Intelligence Cloud: Boosting DevOps Efficiency

Azul Intelligence Cloud captured Gold Stevie Awards in both the Stevie International Business Awards and Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence in the DevOps Solution category, while also earning recognition as a winner in the Tech Ascension DevOps Awards’ DevOps Innovation of the Year category. Intelligence Cloud’s award-winning approach tackles two of the most persistent challenges in modern DevOps: reduced productivity from chasing application security vulnerability false positives and the drag on innovation caused by the burden of maintaining unused and dead code. Intelligence Cloud uniquely addresses both problems by extracting actionable intelligence directly from production Java runtime data without impacting performance.

The platform’s impact on DevOps efficiency earned industry recognition by solving what judges identified as “intractable problems facing development teams.” By analyzing what code runs in production, Intelligence Cloud can eliminate the security false positives from vulnerable code that is present and never gets used but is constantly generating alerts that overwhelm security and development teams. It gives an aggregate view of when and where code was run across an enterprise’s Java application fleet to pinpoint unused and dead code for removal. Doing so lowers code maintenance effort and increases developer productivity, freeing up resources for more important business initiatives. Intelligence Cloud’s comprehensive approach supports all Java runtime distributions, including Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based JVM regardless of vendor or distribution.

Helping Organizations of All Sizes Maximize their Java Investments

Azul was also named to the CRN MES MidMarket 100, demonstrating the breadth of Azul’s impact across performance optimization, cloud cost management, DevOps efficiency and enterprise-grade reliability for organizations of all sizes.

“These awards are a testament to the real-world impact our customers are achieving with Azul’s Java solutions,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “From cutting cloud infrastructure costs to accelerating application performance to improving developer productivity, our mission is to help Java-centric organizations do more with less. Recognition for Platform Prime and Intelligence Cloud validates what our customers already know — that purpose-built innovation for Java delivers meaningful business results.”

About Azul

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, 10 of the world’s top 10 banks 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.