Azul scores with TrueCredit SOA

"The primary focus of the TrueCredit architecture is to drive revenue; if our applications are either not available or too slow, consumers will go elsewhere," said Scott Metzger, chief technology officer of TrueCredit. "We are using the Azul solution in production to provision multiple applications across a shared pool of compute and memory resources, which has dramatically simplified our configuration, increased application availability, allowed us to support more users, and most importantly achieved this while reducing our costs."

TrueCredit provides a unique suite of services to manage and monitor credit and debt for both consumers as well as the customer base of some of the nation's largest financial institutions. In the previous server environment, its Java-based applications were highly constrained by memory heap limits and required significant over-provisioning of hardware and software in order to meet required service levels. This resulted in increased costs and wasted resources. Because Azul Compute Appliances provide memory heap access well beyond the typical 2GB practical limits, applications have access to large heaps without incurring application pause times experienced with traditional servers, and as a result can handle significantly more transactions with fewer instances.

"Azul is dedicated to helping enterprises like TrueCredit create a robust virtualized infrastructure that increases their ability to drive business while reducing IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness, said Scott Sellers, chief operating officer at Azul Systems. "TrueCredit's deploying Azul Compute Appliances is another example of the significant value that our customers are experiencing by simply plugging in capacity and enabling businesses to solve real IT problems: increasing resource utilization, minimizing capacity planning and maximizing server manageability."