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Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Azul and OpenValue Expand Partnership to North America as OpenValue Introduces Global Oracle Java Migration Guarantees
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & UTRECHT, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the expansion of its partnership with OpenValue into North America, bringing OpenValue's industry-leading Java migration services, and newly introduced Java migration guarantees which are available globally, to Azul customers and global reseller partners. Designed to give enterprises greater assurance and predictability when transitioning from costly and restrictive Oracle Java, OpenValue's certified Java migration services now are being coupled with Java migration assurances to provide guaranteed outcomes on project timelines and budgets. The expanded partnership helps customers across Europe and North America safely and efficiently migrate their Java estates to Azul Platform Core and Azul Platform Prime, while optimizing performance and controlling license costs. Java migration guarantees help customers transition Java estates to Azul's supported builds of OpenJDK with assured timelines, cost predictability and reduced licensing risk Share Since its founding in 2017, OpenValue has established itself as a premier provider of Java and DevOps consulting, helping enterprises across Europe. In 2020, OpenValue launched its certified Java migration services to enable organizations globally to modernize their Java estates and escape the escalating costs and licensing restrictions of Oracle Java. In collaboration with Azul and its global ecosystem of resellers and alliances, OpenValue recognized growing customer demand for greater assurance around Java migrations, particularly for large-scale, business-critical environments. The company's recent expansion to North America brings these services to this market now as well. Its new Java migration guarantee gives customers the confidence that migrations to Azul Platform Core and Azul Platform Prime will be delivered on time and within budget, minimizing risk and ensuring predictable outcomes. 'The demand for guaranteed Java migration services continues to accelerate in both Europe and North America,' said Robert Bruinink, CEO of OpenValue Services. 'By expanding our strategic partnership with Azul, we can offer customers a proven path to move away from expensive, restrictive Oracle Java—while guaranteeing that migrations will be completed on time and on budget. Together with Azul's best-in-class Java platform, we're helping organizations optimize costs, improve performance, and take full control of their Java estates.' Azul delivers a best-in-class, cost-effective supportive builds of OpenJDK and is the only vendor to offer support for the entire range of Java versions (including Java 6 and 7). The company's award-winning suite of solutions—including Azul Platform Core and Azul Platform Prime—powers mission-critical Java environments for many of the world's largest enterprises, including global banks, e-commerce leaders and technology innovators. Azul's platforms provide long-term reliability, performance optimization, and enterprise-grade security and support. This helps customers to significantly reduce total cost of ownership while ensuring Java environments remain fully secure and optimized. 'Our global channel partners are instrumental in helping customers unlock the full value of Azul's Java platform,' said Simon Taylor, vice president of Global Partners and Alliances at Azul. 'OpenValue's Java migration guarantee is a game-changer, giving enterprises the confidence to modernize their Java estates with clear expectations and no surprises. We're excited to expand this partnership into North America and continue enabling our customers and partners to drive successful, low-risk migrations to Azul.' About OpenValue Founded in 2017, Roy Wasse, CEO of OpenValue Group had the vision to start a consulting company where everyone can do exactly what they need to become the best developer they could ever be. OpenValue Services is part of the OpenValue Group, a group of independent companies specializing in full stack software development in the Java ecosystem and consisting of decentralized teams of over 160 highly skilled full stack Java experts operating from the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. We aspire to excel in the fast-changing field of custom Java software development. This concept soon proved to be very successful. Now with OpenValue Services we are using our expertise and strengths to globally provide our Java services that include migrations to Azul OpenJDK for medium-sized companies and large corporates as well. 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, all 10 of the world's top 10 financial trading companies, and leading brands like Avaya, Bazaarvoice, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, LG, Mastercard, Mizuho, Priceline, Salesforce, Software AG, and Workday. Learn more at and follow us @azulsystems.
Techday NZ
2 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Azul & Chainguard partner on zero-CVE Java containers
Azul and Chainguard have announced a partnership focused on strengthening container security for Java workloads through combined commercial Java support and secure container images. The collaboration will see Chainguard create Java container images built from source, incorporating Azul's commercially supported build of OpenJDK from the Azul Platform Core. This approach is designed to allow enterprises to deliver production workloads more efficiently while addressing the complexities of securing the full software stack for Java applications. Complexity in Java security Java remains integral to a wide range of enterprise applications, with growing challenges around ensuring timely access to secure builds. Securing Java workloads requires reliable updates and consistent patching, traditionally necessitating expertise and timely intervention by vendors. Azul aims to fulfil this role by delivering fully supported OpenJDK builds intended as a direct replacement for Oracle Java, enabling organisations to maintain compliance and security while reducing expenditure and freeing development teams from remediation tasks. Chainguard Containers supports customers by securing operating systems and application runtime environments. The combination targets gaps in current protection practices that too often see engineering and security teams handle numerous vulnerability disclosures, deal with inconsistent patching, and attempt to harden containers without slowing developer productivity. For Java workloads, which require both rapid security response and commercial support, these difficulties are particularly pressing. Recent research from NetRise indicates that the average container carries 604 known vulnerabilities in underlying software components. Notably, over 45% of these CVEs are two to ten years old. This accumulation of unaddressed vulnerabilities increases risks for organisations that depend on containerised apps. Findings from Azul's 2025 State of Java Survey & Report further highlight the impact of security issues. According to the report, 33% of respondents stated their DevOps teams spend more than half their time addressing false positives from Java-related vulnerabilities. Additionally, 49% of surveyed companies reported they are still encountering vulnerabilities from Log4j in production environments, nearly three years after the initial disclosure. The need to secure all layers, from operating systems to toolchains, forms a critical part of the software development lifecycle. Hardened, zero-CVE Java containers The partnership between Azul and Chainguard is positioned as a direct response to challenges identified by industry research. The joint offering will deliver zero-CVE containers for Java versions 21 and above, built from Azul's source code and supported commercially through Azul's Java expertise. Customers are expected to benefit from a streamlined way to secure Java application foundations, reducing overall risk exposure and enabling more consistent, reliable deployments. The new container images will be constructed entirely from source and tested in accordance with the Java Compatibility Kit, providing assurance of compatibility and feature parity. Azul's approach to stabilised, security-only Critical Patch Updates gives engineering teams the opportunity to deploy updated Java images more efficiently, minimising manual patching and testing efforts. This is intended to help organisations redirect development resources away from platform maintenance and towards application delivery. "Our customers need solutions that reduce risk and build trust at every layer of their modern software deployment stack," said Dan Lorenc, co-founder and CEO at Chainguard. "Today, we're bringing Chainguard's expertise in building minimal, zero-CVE images and Azul's expertise in Java together to create the most secure, commercial-grade containers for cloud-native workloads." Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul, added: "Choosing a hardened container shouldn't mean sacrificing timely security-only updates and commercial support services for your Java runtimes. Today, we're excited to offer enterprises best-in-breed hardened Java containers from Chainguard while leveraging world-class commercial support from Azul." Customers adopting Azul Java container images through Chainguard Containers will have access to commercial Java support within the Azul Platform Core portfolio. This ensures ongoing access to patches and direct assistance for Java runtime issues in critical enterprise environments.
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GMA Network
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Mikael Daez says no sleep as new parents but 'we have been enjoying the whole journey'
Mikael Daez got real about being new parents to his and Megan Young's newborn baby, Leon. In an Instagram Reel, the trio did their own, family-style take on the trending challenge to the tune of 'Azul' by J Balvin. 'Confirming reports na wala talagang tulog kapag may newborn,' Mikael said. 'But on another note, we have been enjoying the whole journey and taping life has trained us well for this period of two-hour naps and sleep-deprived days," he added. The actor said they're "only newborn once" so they might as well "make the most" out of the experience. Megan and Mikael welcomed their first child in May. In a previous post, Mikael gave a shoutout to Megan, who endured a 20-hour labor. Mikael also celebrated his first Father's Day last weekend. The couple tied the knot in 2020 in intimate ceremonies. —Nika Roque/JCB, GMA Integrated News
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Volkswagen to restore minibus seen in iconic photo of LA wildfires
Volkswagen has stepped in to save and restore a blue and white VW camper minibus that miraculously survived the deadly Palisade fires near Los Angeles in January of this year. The T2 bus was left intact on a street in Malibu amid homes destroyed by the flames although its paintwork was badly scorched. At least 30 people were killed in the blazes and many made homeless. The German manufacturer said the van had become a beacon of hope as residents picked up the pieces of their lives as the flames subsided. An AP photo of the lone van in a desolate landscape was circulated widely on TV and social media at the time. "Like the rest of the world, we couldn't believe our eyes," said Mark Gillies, the company's PR head in the US. "But regardless of how good it looked in photos, we knew it was in dire need of a check-up." Volkswagen contacted the vehicle's owner, Megan Krystle Weinraub, who refers to her bus as Azul, about assessing the damage and determining whether it was still in road-worthy condition. If not, VW offered to restore Azul to pre-fires form if deemed possible. "Getting that call was such a relief," Weinraub said. "I knew Azul was becoming a symbol of hope and that people wanted to see more of her, but I had so much to work through at the time that I wasn't sure how to approach it." Once the area was accessible again, Azul was loaded onto a transport bound for Volkswagen's nearby Oxnard Campus, which houses and maintains VW's US collection of historic vehicles. Volkswagen team members said that while Azul's "good side" was impressive, the bus would require extensive mechanical fixes and bodywork to be fully operable. Work on the restoration has now begun and is expected to be completed later this year.
Techday NZ
13-06-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Azul boosts Java security with improved runtime vulnerability detection
Azul has introduced enhanced vulnerability detection capabilities to its Intelligence Cloud that aim to reduce false positives and improve the accuracy of identifying Java application security risks. The company's updated solution, called Azul Vulnerability Detection, now uses class-level production runtime data to detect known vulnerabilities within Java applications. This approach contrasts with conventional application security (AppSec) and application performance monitoring (APM) tools, which often flag vulnerabilities based on component file names or software bill of materials (SBOM) data. Such traditional practices can generate a large volume of false positives, which the company asserts unnecessarily divert DevOps teams' time and effort. Based on findings from the Azul 2025 State of Java Survey & Report, a significant proportion of organisations are affected by this problem, with 33% indicating that more than half of their DevOps teams' time is spent addressing false positives related to Java Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) alerts. The broad-brush flagging approach, which does not distinguish between components actually used in production and those simply present, can result in alerts for unused or non-critical vulnerabilities. Azul's approach leverages data from Java application production environments to establish whether vulnerable classes in a component are executed, rather than simply existing as part of a packaged file. The company claims this refinement enables the solution to eliminate up to 99% of false positives, translating to a potential 100 to 1,000 times reduction compared to earlier detection methods. The technical approach The solution operates by applying a curated knowledge base that maps CVEs to individual Java classes used at runtime. By examining actual code paths executed in live environments, the system can determine whether a flagged vulnerability is relevant and warrants example cited is CVE-2024-1597, which affects specific versions of the PostgreSQL Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver. This high-severity vulnerability, which scores 9.8 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), can only be exploited when the driver is used in a particular non-default configuration. Conventional tools issue alerts if the driver is present in the application package, regardless of how it is used, contributing to unnecessary remediation efforts. Azul's detection mechanism discerns whether any of the 11 susceptible classes out of 470 in the component are used, thereby reducing irrelevant alerts. Key benefits According to Azul, the Intelliigence Cloud's Vulnerability Detection capability provides several benefits to enterprises managing extensive Java estates. These include continuous, real-time detection of vulnerabilities in production environments, which helps teams rapidly triage and prioritise critical issues in high-stakes scenarios like the Log4j vulnerability event. The platform retains both real-time and historical data on component and code use, using AI methods to focus forensic investigations on vulnerabilities actively exploited prior to their discovery. Azul's vulnerability team updates the system's knowledge base with newly identified CVEs, using AI to monitor sources such as the National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD) and other repositories. The runtime data collection works across Oracle JDK as well as any OpenJDK-based Java Virtual Machine (JVM), providing flexibility for organisations using a range of Java distributions, including those from Amazon, Temurin, Microsoft, and Red Hat. Azul states that this data-gathering incurs no impact on production system performance, as it leverages information already generated by the JVM during application execution. "The improved Vulnerability Detection features strengthen the proposition of Azul's Intelligence Cloud analytics SaaS offering as a way to increase DevOps productivity and recover developer capacity by reducing the need for full-time employee time spent wasted on security false positives and inefficient triage," said William Fellows, research director at 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Company statement "Our mission is to help enterprises focus their security efforts on what matters - real risk, not noise," said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO of Azul. "By eliminating up to 99% of false positives and pinpointing vulnerabilities in Java applications with 100x – 1000x greater accuracy than traditional tools, Azul Intelligence Cloud enables capacity recovery across DevOps and security teams. As a result, teams can dramatically reduce noise, prioritise real risk and accelerate remediation - all with zero impact to performance and without slowing innovation." Azul's enhancements to its Intelligence Cloud are positioned to address long-standing productivity challenges faced by DevOps teams handling Java application security, particularly the time lost to managing irrelevant or inaccurate alerts.
