Nexoforge Boosts Industrial IoT Deployments with Azul Systems

SUNNYVALE, CA, Sept. 12, 2017 -- SUNNYVALE, Calif., – September 12, 2017 – Azul Systems (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced that Nexoforge™, a team of industry innovators behind an Industrial IoT embedded platform targeting Inductive Automation’s Ignition as an appliance for integrators and end users, will be leveraging Azul’s Zulu Embedded open source Java platform to further enhance the performance of Nexoforge's Industrial IoT gateway. Nexoforge's flexible, out-of-the-box automated, edge-of-network devices that are already known for superior speed, intelligence, and dynamic flexibility with no need for manual maintenance will stay ahead of increased demands and decrease costs, all while running on Java, which is considered one of the integral aspects of IIoT.

“As organizations make their journey to IIoT, they need a robust platform for their business-critical applications. The integration with Azul Systems was an obvious choice for us, and allows customers to confidently deploy into production environments using Azul’s Zulu Embedded open source Java platform. We are excited to deploy Zulu Embedded and are looking forward to the benefits that our customers will realize by way of performance and savings.” said Terry Dingwall, CEO of Nexoforge.

“The IoT market is advancing by leaps and bounds, and especially in the Industrial IoT we are seeing an incredible amount of activity and product innovation,” said Scott Sellers, Azul Systems president and CEO. “We are pleased to see Zulu Embedded continue to be deployed widely in this high growth market segment, and clearly a certified, open source Java runtime platform with the industry’s best commercial support is an important component.”

To learn more about Zulu Embedded, visit www.azul.com/zulu-embedded.

Development builds of Zulu are available for free download at: http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-embedded/.

About Azul Systems

@azulsystems

Azul Systems, the industry's only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, the embedded community and the IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for enterprise Java applications and workloads that require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul's certified, freely available open source build of OpenJDK. Cost-effective Zulu Enterprise subscriptions extend OpenJDK support to Java-based businesses who prefer open source solutions. Zulu Embedded is Azul's 100% open source build of OpenJDK for Intel and ARM-based processors that require custom configurations and long support life cycles. For additional information, visit www.azul.com 

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About Nexoforge

@nexoforge

Nexoforge™ is a team of industry innovators dedicated to IIoT computing and interoperability. Our mission is to bridge the modern enterprise and IIoT computing worlds by bringing platforms targeting Inductive Automation’s Ignition as an appliance. The Nexoforge embedded platform is designed and built specifically as an Ignition appliance and allows users to deploy a gateway without the headaches of traditional manual maintenance. This solves many reliability and security concerns, and makes it easier / more cost effective to maintain existing deployments. For additional information, visit www.nexoforge.com

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Liz Erk
Azul Systems
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Will Mapp
Nexoforge
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