Azul Wins 2025 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards for Platform Prime and Intelligence Cloud

InfoWorld recognizes Azul for innovations that accelerate Java performance, reduce cloud waste and increase DevOps efficiency

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced it has been named a winner in two categories for the 2025 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards. Azul Platform Prime was recognized in the Software Development: Platforms category and Azul Intelligence Cloud secured the win in the DevOps: Analytics category.

Selected by InfoWorld editors and reviewers, these awards recognize the best and most innovative products in the IT landscape. This dual recognition underscores Azul’s ability to solve two critical challenges facing enterprises today: spiraling cloud infrastructure costs and the productivity drain caused by inefficiency in DevOps operations.

Azul Platform Prime: Java Performance that Changes Cloud Economics

Platform Prime, Azul’s high-performance Java platform, sets the bar by achieving an average 37% performance boost compared to other OpenJDK distributions, and delivering record performance against industry benchmarks. Platform Prime has enhanced JDK characteristics that provide superior speed, start-up and warmup and consistency vs typical OpenJDK distributions. It was recognized for its ability to drastically reduce the number of cloud instances needed to run Java workloads, and delivers unique benefits including:

• Lower costs for cloud native architectures: Platform Prime produces much faster compiled code, which increases the number of transactions per server and ultimately reduces the number of servers needed. As a result, customers of Prime realize up to 20%+ reduction in their cloud computing costs.
• Elastic scaling: Platform Prime front-loads profiling and offloads performance optimizations to external services, achieving shorter warmup times with lower CPU utilization for smoother scaling.
• Consistent low latency performance: applications running on traditional OpenJDK suffer from high latency ranging from milliseconds to minutes due to “stop-the-world” pauses when cleaning up unused memory, part of Java’s notorious “garbage collection” process. In contrast, Platform Prime’s memory collector is pauseless, eliminating latency spikes.

Azul Intelligence Cloud: Runtime Insight that Boosts DevOps Productivity

Azul Intelligence Cloud was recognized for providing actionable intelligence that dramatically boosts DevOps productivity. Using information present in production JVMs, Intelligence Cloud delivers a level of precision that conventional monitoring and static analysis tools cannot match.

Intelligence Cloud’s Vulnerability Detection feature eliminates up to 99% of vulnerability false positives by using production runtime data to detect vulnerable code that organizations are actively running. This is important because it generates accurate results unattainable by traditional AppSec tools. Vulnerability Detection's newest enhancement refines this capability further by using class-level – the fundamental building blocks in Java – runtime data to detect vulnerabilities false positives by 100x-100x compared to other tools.

Code Inventory, another feature of Intelligence Cloud, is the only solution that precisely and automatically catalogs what code runs, and does not run, in production across an enterprise's entire Java estate. This allows DevOps teams to identify unused and dead code for removal, use Code Inventory’s OpenRewrite integration to automatically flag it for deprecation, and subsequently remove it with confidence, thereby reducing technical debt and slashing code maintenance.

“These awards reflect the tangible results our customers achieve when they run their Java estates on Azul,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “In an era where cloud efficiency and developer productivity are paramount, this recognition validates our strategy of using the Java runtime not just as an execution engine, but as a source of immense value. Whether it’s cutting infrastructure and cloud costs with Platform Prime or recovering developer capacity by helping slash tech debt and eliminating security false positives with Intelligence Cloud, we are committed to helping enterprises extract more value from their Java-based workloads.”

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.