Azul Systems Honored as Gold Winner for Information Technology in the 7th Annual 2015 Golden Bridge Awards

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 17, 2015) -

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Azul Systems (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, has earned the prestigious Gold status for Information Technology (software) in the Golden Bridge Awards for Zing® with ReadyNow!®.

The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, product management and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2015 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were honored during the awards dinner and presentation on November 16, 2015 in San Francisco attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

"It's an honor to be named a Golden Bridge Awards Gold winner," said Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul Systems. "This award is a testament to Azul's continued commitment to driving innovation in Java, and validates the clear requirement for a Java runtime solution that delivers consistent low latency and high scalability for business-critical applications."

Azul Zing is a unique Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that provides consistent low-latency with high throughput, supports large in-memory datasets without performance penalties, and solves the Java "warm-up" problem. Zing eliminates the operational interruptions and response time outliers often experienced by Java-based trading, risk and compliance applications in the financial services market. Azul's ReadyNow! technology solves Java's warm-up problem by allowing applications to start fast at the opening bell and stay fast even as market conditions change during the day. For more information about Zing and to request a free trial, visit www.azul.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, certified 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 certified, freely available open source build of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible support options, available in configurations for the enterprise as well as custom and embedded systems. For additional information, visit www.azul.com.

About the Golden Bridge Awards

Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com.

Azul Systems, the Azul Systems logo, Zulu, Zing and ReadyNow! are registered trademarks. Java and OpenJDK are trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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