Azul Systems (News - Alert) has entered into a commercial agreement with Simplex Consulting Inc., following which Azul’s Zing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) will be integrated into Simplex’s wide range of Java-based trading platforms. This partnership allows Simplex to improve response time and throughput across its application suite, including Simplex FX, Simplex PRISM and Simplex BLAST.

Zing JVM is the latest industry standard for improving Java performance without any disruption to the existing infrastructure. Zing ensures visibility into Java applications in the production environment through its in-built monitoring and management capability, which enables identifying and resolving problems in the least possible time.

Hidekazu Sugiura, a partner at Simplex Consulting, said, "Before we signed an agreement with Azul Systems, we conducted a three month Java benchmarking exercise to evaluate the effectiveness of Zing with our equities trading system. Our findings concluded that Zing immediately reduces latency jitters with minimal tuning effort. Latency and Java application performance are business-critical issues for many of our customers, hence the strong interest in promoting Zing. It is by far the best JVM on the market for any industry sector capitalizing and wanting to leverage low latency with application efficiency."

This partnership enables Simplex to fortify its foothold in the market by drastically improving the performance of its product suite by effectively reducing the risks associated with latency spikes and conventional memory ceilings with Java based applications.

The CEO of Azul Systems, Scott Sellers, said, "In Japan, Simplex is a highly respected software vendor for the financial community. Simplex customers demand high quality and flawless execution. By combining Zing with Simplex's proven trading platforms and building blocks, we can jointly deliver best-in-breed solutions to the financial sector."

Azul Systems is a market leader in providing scalability for Java runtime applications with Zing JVM being the exclusive Java runtime that ensures reliable solution for throughput-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. Simplex Consulting is a renowned technology and software vendor for the financial services industry with nearly 90 percent share in the Japanese market.