Azul Systems CEO Scott Sellers recently visited Australia to visit customers and speak at a Gartner summit. He took time out of his schedule to speak with iTWireTV also, helping us understand how Azul can aid enterprises in significantly reducing cloud cost, and vastly increase application performance too.

The magic ingredient, simply put, is Azul's own Java platform, known as the Azul platform. In fact, Azul has a 20-year heritage of Java leadership and is the largest independent Java vendor. It supports more versions of Java and leads more OpenJDK projects than any other company. Azul's Java team is the largest outside of Oracle and about 10 times larger than any OpenJDK vendor.

Out-of-the-box, Scott explains, the Azul platform cost up to 70% less than Oracle Java and is ideal for any organisation that needs security, support, and stability at great value.

The maths all make sense. Want to reduce your cloud compute cost? Use the Azul Platform with its more efficient JVM and immediately your cloud costs reduce. Further, the Azul Platform has more favourable licensing than Oracle Java so you save there too. It's a no-brainer that by switching your Java platform to Azul you immediately save time and money, and that's only the start. The Azul Platform also offers continual vulnerability detection, great customer support, and more.

Meanwhile, Scott also says there's a large opportunity for Azul in the Asia Pacific region for its Java platform and speaks about what our region means to Azul, as well as some significant customer stories including how the University of Sydney made the switch to the Azul Platform and achieved significant cost savings.

See our conversation here:

If you're a Java environment, you need to check out Azul Systems and the Azul Platform.