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Business Wire
4 days 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
23-05-2025
- Techday NZ
Azul & JetBrains partner to boost Kotlin performance on JVM
Azul and JetBrains have announced a technical collaboration aimed at enhancing the runtime performance and scalability of web and server-side Kotlin applications. The partnership seeks to improve the interaction between Kotlin-generated bytecode and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environment. By leveraging Azul's expertise in JVM performance and JetBrains' development of the Kotlin language, the companies aim to optimise how modern applications execute, particularly in terms of scalability and efficiency. Kotlin, a high-level programming language designed to be fully compatible with the JVM, draws much of its application performance and scaling characteristics from the JVM itself. The collaboration centres on utilising Azul Platform Prime, which features the Zing JDK with Azul's Falcon LLVM-based Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler and the C4 garbage collector. According to data from the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks, applications built in Kotlin and running on Azul Platform Prime exhibited a 23.9% reduction in latency and a 30.5% increase in throughput compared to the same workloads on OpenJDK. These results highlight a measurable performance boost for web and server-side applications using the new environment. Azul Platform Prime is available for x86 and ARM64 processors running Linux, and it is tested for compatibility with enterprise workloads through the industry standard Java Compatibility Kit (JCK or TCK). The platform builds on the OpenJDK code base, with specific improvements targeting JIT compilation, garbage collection, and startup behaviour. The Falcon compiler, integrated within Azul Platform Prime, is based on the LLVM infrastructure and is designed to optimise application code at runtime for increased execution efficiency. The C4 garbage collector, also part of the platform, maintains application execution without disruption across a spectrum of memory requirements, from gigabytes to terabytes, and sustains high allocation rates. This approach is intended to improve throughput and response times while reducing requirements for IT infrastructure and cloud resources. Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, Kotlin Project Lead at JetBrains, commented on the collaboration's significance: "From its inception, Kotlin was designed with the goal of building robust applications, including server-side solutions where performance is critical. Performance has always been a priority for us because it's essential to our users." "Kotlin incorporates specific language features, such as inline functions and inline classes, which directly enhance performance. We've developed the Kotlin Coroutines library to facilitate concurrency and asynchronous programming, enabling efficient, scalable applications. Recognising that the JVM runtime is one of the most critical elements in application performance, we believe our collaboration with Azul will unlock new opportunities to further elevate the performance capabilities of Kotlin applications." Gil Tene, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Azul, highlighted the performance benefits: "The Azul JVM is the fastest and cheapest way to run Kotlin applications. Azul Platform Prime is built to solve the performance challenges enterprise applications face at scale. By providing a runtime that significantly improves the execution of JVM-based applications, which includes Kotlin-based applications, organisations can deploy applications more rapidly, with less tuning and ensure scalability as demands grow." "Through our strategic collaboration with JetBrains, we help Kotlin teams to significantly boost their DevOps productivity and runtime application efficiency, which enables them to achieve their business priorities while improving the bottom line." For Kotlin developers seeking to assess these performance improvements, Azul Platform Prime Stream Builds are available for download and are free for evaluation and development use.
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Azul and JetBrains Collaborate to Enhance Runtime Performance for Kotlin Workloads
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, and JetBrains, the leading provider of professional software development tools and creator of the Kotlin programming language, today announced a strategic technical collaboration to enhance the runtime performance and scalability of web and server-side Kotlin applications. This strategic collaboration empowers Kotlin teams to accelerate development cycles and optimize application performance, helping them support their business priorities while driving greater operational efficiency. Joining Forces to Advance Kotlin Performance Azul and JetBrains have joined forces with a shared vision: to reexamine how Kotlin-generated bytecode interacts with the Java runtime (known as a Java Virtual Machine or JVM) and uncover new paths to improve application performance. By combining Azul's deep expertise in the JVM and application performance, with Kotlin's precise control over bytecode generation, the collaboration creates a unique opportunity to optimize the entire execution stack for modern applications. While Kotlin is a cross-platform, general-purpose high-level programming language designed to interoperate fully with the JVM, runtime performance and scalability are derived predominantly from the JVM. By leveraging the proven performance of Azul Platform Prime, which includes the Zing JDK incorporating Azul's Falcon LLVM-based JIT compiler and C4 garbage collector, Kotlin web and server-side applications can see a demonstrable performance improvement. When comparing Kotlin applications on Azul Platform Prime vs. off-the-shelf OpenJDK using the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks, Azul Platform Prime reduced latencies by 23.9% and improved throughput by as much as 30.5%. For more details on the benchmark methodology and results, visit the JetBrains Blog. Azul Platform Prime – Engineered for Speed, Scale and Stability Azul Platform Prime is available for x86 and ARM64 processors running Linux and is rigorously tested for enterprise workloads and compliant with the Java SE version standards using the industry standard Java Compatibility Kit (the JCK or TCK) test suite. It is based on the same 'HotSpot' JVM and JDK code base used by the OpenJDK project, with specific enhancements relating to JIT compilation, garbage collection and startup/warmup behavior. Azul's Falcon is an LLVM-based JIT compiler that delivers highly optimized application code at runtime. C4 (Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector) is a proven, high-performance garbage collector that maintains concurrent, disruption-free application execution across wide ranges of heap sizes from GBs to multi-TBs, and allocation rates from MBs/sec to tens of GB/sec. Together, these runtime features provide significantly improved application operating characteristics and carrying capacity, improving application throughout and response times while lowering the infrastructure and cloud costs required to run business-critical workloads. 'From its inception, Kotlin was designed with the goal of building robust applications, including server-side solutions where performance is critical. Performance has always been a priority for us because it's essential to our users,' said Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, Kotlin project lead. 'Kotlin incorporates specific language features, such as inline functions and inline classes, which directly enhance performance. We've developed the Kotlin Coroutines library to facilitate concurrency and asynchronous programming, enabling efficient, scalable applications. Recognizing that the JVM runtime is one of the most critical elements in application performance, we believe our collaboration with Azul will unlock new opportunities to further elevate the performance capabilities of Kotlin applications.' 'The Azul JVM is the fastest and cheapest way to run Kotlin applications. Azul Platform Prime is built to solve the performance challenges enterprise applications face at scale. By providing a runtime that significantly improves the execution of JVM-based applications, which includes Kotlin-based applications, organizations can deploy applications more rapidly, with less tuning and ensure scalability as demands grow,' said Gil Tene, co-founder and chief technology officer at Azul. 'Through our strategic collaboration with JetBrains, we help Kotlin teams to significantly boost their DevOps productivity and runtime application efficiency, which enables them to achieve their business priorities while improving the bottom line.' For Kotlin development teams that are looking to enhance the performance of their web or server-side applications, engineers can download Azul Platform Prime Stream Builds, which are free for evaluation and development, to profile the benefits of the Zing JDK with their Kotlin applications. Additional Resources: About JetBrains JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools used by over 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Its lineup of more than 30 products includes award-winning IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, as well as the JetBrains AI-powered coding assistant, coding agent Junie and productivity-boosting team tools like YouTrack, Qodana, and TeamCity. JetBrains is also the creator of Kotlin, a cross-platform language used by more than 2.5 million developers worldwide yearly. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has offices around the world. For more information, please visit 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. JetBrains name is the registered trademark of JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin is the trademark of the Kotlin Foundation.
