"We have been tracking Docker for some time, as we do with any megatrends in the industry," Scott Sellers, founder and CEO at Azul, explained to EnterpriseTech. What might be surprising is just how fast Docker is being adopted in the enterprise. The rapid rise of Docker as a new and lightweight form of virtualization for the Linux platform has been well documented here at EnterpriseTech, so it is no surprise that Azul is eager to hitch its wagon to Docker. Pricing starts at $1,000 per physical server, and ramps down with volumes quickly to around $250 per server when customers are using Zulu on a few thousand boxes. Zulu support comes in a Standard Edition with quarterly releases and business hour support terms and a Premium Edition with out-of-cycle bug fixes, early release access to new code from OpenJDK, and a 24x7 support term. Zulu does not have all of the performance tweaks that Zing has, but it can be viewed as a stepping stone towards Zing as customers need to squeeze more throughput out of and get lower latency from their Java applications. Since that time, Azul has expanded its support matrix to cover all manner of hypervisors, operating systems, and clouds running on X86 machinery. The Zulu JVM launched about a year ago and made its debut as the open source Java available on Microsoft's Azure public cloud. The software is freely distributed and has a commercial support contract available. With Zulu, Azul is grabbing the open source OpenJDK implementation of the JVM and related code and hardening it and packaging it for commercial use. Zing is priced more or less in line with the commercial-grade Oracle HotSpot and IBM JVM 7 alternatives. EnterpriseTech explained how makes use of Zing to accelerate its workloads earlier this year, and also detailed the new ReadyNow features aimed at financial trading firms trying to get around the JVM warmup issue they face every day of trading. A few years back after JVM performance had come a long way and X86 processors were equipped with features that allowed for JVMs to be accelerated on CPUs rather than on adjunct processors, Azul shifted its efforts from the hardware appliances to a highly tuned Zing JVM stack. The Zing Java virtual machine is the older of the two products and is based on the substantial amount of software engineering that Azul did to create a JVM that was tuned to hardware accelerators that it created to significantly boost the performance of Java applications. Azul Systems, the long-time maker of Java acceleration appliances that has transformed itself into a provider of Java runtime environments for X86 systems, is leaping on the Docker software container bandwagon and claiming first-mover advantage as the only implementation of the OpenJDK open source Java runtime that is certified to run on top of Docker and that has enterprise-grade technical support available.Īzul has two kinds of JVMs and runtimes that it sells.
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