Azul Systems Inc. (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced the immediate general availability of a new major release of its Zing runtime for Java. The new Zing version 14.09 further advances Azul’s ReadyNow™ technology and adds full support for Java SE 8.
ReadyNow™ solves the “warm-up” problem prevalent in many Java applications and ensures peak application performance is available without long “warm-up” periods and during other critical times. Zing 14.09 includes new ReadyNow™ capabilities that enable performance optimization settings and learned compiler decisions from prior application runs to be available at application startup and restarts. This unique capability enables Java applications to reach their full performance profile dramatically faster (without the slowdowns associated with typical Java application Just-In-Time compilation) and also substantially reduces variability in runtime performance and latency.
“With Zing 14.09, we are greatly extending the flexibility of the JVM and are delivering the ‘holy grail’ of solutions to solve Java’s warm-up problem”, said Scott Sellers, Azul Systems co-founder and CEO. “The new Zing release extends the benefits of ReadyNow technology for use in a variety of latency-sensitive domains, including financial trading systems and real-time risk analytics, web-scale applications, telecommunications, and other segments requiring consistent, low latency execution.”
Zing 14.09 is also fully compatible with Java SE 8. Java developers and DevOps personnel may now utilize the full feature set of Java SE 8 while also realizing the benefits of Zing including elimination of garbage collection pauses, the ability to utilize large in-memory datasets without stalls or performance penalty, and consistent, predictable low-latency performance.
“Zing, Azul’s advanced JVM, remains one of very few options available for customers requiring the maximum performance and consistency from a Java runtime,” said John Abbott, Distinguished Analyst at 451 Research. “The new features in Zing 14.09 significantly extend the core low-latency and garbage collection capabilities that support the most demanding business applications, such as those in the financial, eCommerce, and telecommunications sectors.”
Pricing and Availability
Zing release 14.09 is available immediately. Zing is priced on a subscription basis per server. The annualized subscription price for Zing per physical server ranges from $3500 (for several hundred servers) to $7500.To learn more about Zing, please visithttps://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing.
About Azul Systems
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Azul Systems, the industry’s only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that help enable the real time business. Zing is a JVM designed for enterprise Java applications and workloads that require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul’s freely available open source JVM based on OpenJDK, and Azul provides high-quality commercial support options with its Zulu Enterprise offering. For additional information, visit: www.azul.com.