Company: Azul, Sunnyvale, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Treble PR
Company Description: 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 27% of the Fortune 100.
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Business Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: DevOps Solution
 Nomination Title: Azul Intelligence Cloud
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
New version of an existing product, released on April 30, 2024
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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Azul Intelligence Cloud is an analytics solution that provides actionable intelligence from production Java runtime data to boost developer productivity. The enhanced version supports any JVM from any vendor or distribution, including Azul Zulu and Zing builds of OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, Amazon Corretto, Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Red Hat build of OpenJDK and Eclipse Temurin.
Businesses are pressured to accelerate application innovation cycles and optimize their development resources while ensuring the security of their applications and customer data. Azul’s Intelligence Cloud addresses these challenges via two services:
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Azul Vulnerability Detection – eliminates false positives by accurately identifying and prioritizing known security vulnerabilities
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Code Inventory – helps identify unused and dead code by precisely detailing what custom and third-party code is run.
For DevOps teams, dealing with Java application deployments that often comprise a heterogeneous mix of JVMs across different Java vendors, platforms and versions becomes increasingly complex. Benefits for DevOps include:
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Eliminate Vulnerability False Positives: Uses information the JVM has when running a Java application to identify vulnerable code that runs, generating accurate results unattainable by traditional application security tools. Enables DevOps to prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk, saving time while reducing security issue backlogs.
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Efficiently Triage New Vulnerabilities: Provides continuous detection for Java applications in production so DevOps teams can efficiently triage new critical vulnerabilities.
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Code Use Analysis and Unused Code Visibility: Gives an aggregate view of when code was run across an enterprise’s Java workloads. Enables DevOps to understand what code is used in production and helps identify unused, dead code for removal. This lowers code maintenance efforts and increases developer productivity, freeing up resources for imperative business initiatives.
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Real-time and Historical Analysis, Using AI: Retains component and code use history, allowing for focused efforts to determine if vulnerable code was exploited before identified as vulnerable. Azul uses AI to quickly identify Java-specific CVEs from the National Vulnerabilities Database.
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No Performance Impact in Production: Efficiently captures Java runtime data that exists within a JVM when running a Java application, resulting in no performance impact, something not possible using traditional security or profiling tools.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Customer Endorsement
“We acquired another firm recently and aren’t familiar with their codebase. It contains millions of lines of code – reading and understanding that code would take months. With Code Inventory, we identified large portions of unused code, archived it and now spend our time working on the important parts. This has significantly sped up our development cycles,” said an Azul Intelligence Cloud user from a leading fintech trading firm.
Customer Endorsement – Financial Services Company
“For a critical application, the team needs to go over 4 million lines of code to find a vulnerability which can take a week. With Code Inventory the culprit can be known with precision.”
Channel Partner Endorsement
“We clearly see the benefit that Azul Intelligence Cloud delivers to our customers by helping their DevOps teams save an immense amount of time and increasing their productivity,” said Ed Tybursky, managing partner at Remend, an independent Oracle advisory firm. “The ability to efficiently triage vulnerable code and identify unused code for removal from telemetry across an entire Java estate, regardless of JDK distribution or vendor, is a crucial capability that enables DevOps teams to effectively focus their time and attention.”
Channel Partner Endorsement
“Ever since the Log4J event, we have seen a dramatic rise in ‘false positives’ as a result of the various tools that organizations have employed to address Java application vulnerabilities,” said James Yang, vice president of sales at Cloud Creek, an Azul channel partner. “Currently we are on the phone with customers 3 to 4 times a week to prove that these are false positives – often we have up to 15 people on the phone from both the client side and our team spending anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to address this. How is this productive? It's almost like crying wolf. Azul’s Intelligence Cloud solution takes all this pain away, completely removing the false positives and allowing our customers to quickly and effectively remediate the vulnerabilities that matter."
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