Gil Tene, Co-Founder and CTO of Azul Systems, based in Mountain View, CA, told SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff of the original idea behind the company's launch into providing Java-driven enterprise compute appliances, an idea that was formulated on the JavaOne showfloor in 2002. The complete interview can be found at SYS-CON.TV.

Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service to transaction-intensive applications, such as those built on the Java platform. The family of Azul Compute Appliances enables transparent, massively scalable infrastructure that supports the business priorities of today’s most demanding enterprise environments and delivers increased capabilities, capacity and utilization at a fraction of the cost of traditional computing models, the company says.

Azul Compute Appliances are pooled together to deliver capacity as a shared network service, which multiple applications can tap into at the same time – an approach known as network attached processing. This approach is similar to network attached storage (NAS) and provides all the benefits of scale-out with a lot fewer servers to manage, according to Azul. And like NAS, network attached processing does not require disruptive changes to applications and eliminates speculative capacity planning.