Azul Systems announced that its Vega 3 Compute Appliance recorded world record results in the industry-standard SPECjbb2005 benchmark, further demonstrating the company's commitment to providing customers with the highest performing solutions for Java enterprise computing.

SPECjbb2005 is the industry standard Java server benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java applications. Azul's recently announced Vega 3 system, featuring up to 864 processor cores and 768GB of memory in a single system, delivered the industry's highest single instance score of 1,507,725 SPECjbb2005 bops (business operations per second) and 1,507,725 SPECjbb2005 bops /JVM, demonstrating the unique ability to address the increasingly demanding needs of enterprise business critical Java applications. This new benchmark result is over 31% higher than the previous record and 80% lower in cost.

The SPECjbb2005 record is testament to Azul's innovation in Java computing and its ability to deliver world-class performance for real world applications. The significance of this performance leadership is that customers can now scale their business critical applications while computing on very large datasets of 100's of GBytes of memory in a single application instance, and without the challenges of application stability or garbage collection pauses typical with traditional general purpose servers. With Azul, businesses can achieve extremely high transactional volumes and ultra fast response times with the deployment simplicity of an appliance.

"This SPECjbb2005 record is further proof that Azul's products offer dramatic benefits over traditional solutions for enterprise Java applications," said Scott Sellers, president and CEO, Azul Systems. "Our solutions provide companies with opportunities to run their businesses in environmentally-friendly ways by aiding datacenter virtualization initiatives and reducing power consumption costs yet still consistently improving the performance of their Java applications."

For more information on Azul Systems contact Leah McLean, lmclean@vocecomm.com at Voce Communications.