Wednesday February 23rd, 2011

6:30 - 8:30 PM

Commodity hardware capacities are skyrocketing, hardware virtualization is becoming ubiquitous and clouds are growing in popularity. At the same time, Java runtimes and frameworks still face challenges in providing application responsiveness, consistency and scale, making it hard to effectively utilize modern hardware platforms. In this session we will explore new deployment paradigms which can dramatically improve application metrics and accelerate the adoption of virtualization in production applications.

You will learn:

• How to deploy existing applications on virtualized platforms to improve responsiveness, scale and throughput.
• How to completely solve the garbage collection problems and unleash the power of abundant commodity memory.
• How new opportunities in application architecture can leverage elastic, virtualized and cloud-ready platforms.

You can go to http://www.infoq.com/interviews/gil-tene-azul-zing to see an interview with Gil about Azul's latest work.

A big thank you to AzulSystems for sponsoring our meeting and PROS Pricing for providing meeting space!

Speaker: Gil Tene

Gil has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology-based products since 1995. He co-founded Azul Systems in 2002, where he pioneered Pauseless Garbage Collection, Java Virtualization, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that deliver the industry's most scalable and robust Java platform. He holds a BSEE from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and has been awarded 19 patents.

Meeting Location: PROS Pricing

3100 Main Map 
10th floor 
Houston, TX 77002

Suggested Parking:

Park across the street in the parking garage on Elgin on the 3rd or 4th floor in the Visitor designated spots. Walk across the skybridge on the 3rd floor and take the elevators on the right side of the elevator lobby to the 10th floor.

Meeting Sponsor: Azul Systems

Sponsor Website: http://www.azulsystems.com

Company Overview

Azul Systems delivers elastic deployment platforms for Java applications that provide unsurpassed scalability, manageability, and production-time visibility for Java-based applications. By providing unparalleled compute and memory resources for throughput-intensive and QoS-sensitive Java applications, Azul enables organizations to dramatically simplify deployments, consolidate instances, increase capacities with predictable response times, and dramatically improve operating costs over traditional deployment models.

Door Prizes and Giveaways!

• JetBrains has donated one IntelliJ license to be raffled off at this month's HJUG meeting if we have 30 attendees, two if we have 50 or more
• ZeroTurnaround has donated a license of JavaRebel to be raffled off this month