Azul Systems Wine Tasting Event @ Rainbow Room

Tonight, I went to a wine tasting event hosted by Azul Systems at Rainbow Room. Before the wine tasting began, there was an informative case study by Tony Bishop, Former SVP, Chief Architect of Wachovia Corporate Investment Bank. Tony pointed out that Azul Systems has become an important component of Wachovia's infrastructure and it allowed Wachovia to replace three racks with one machine by Azul Systems. He also mentioned that since IT never gets credit for increased revenue, his team had to make a case for protecting lost revenue to get funding approval for Azul Systems.

Following the keynote, there was a panel discussion with Scott Sellers (President and CEO) Gil Tene, (CTO) and Shyam Pillalamarri (VP of Software Engineering).

Azul was founded on 9/11/2001 and decision to target Java primarily was made at Java One. Azul also introduced Vega 3 which is available in 5U and 13U sizes.

At the event, I had great conversations with Maureen Fleming (Program Director, Business Process Integration and Deployment Software @ IDC) and Jonathan Levine (CTO of LinkShare).

As we were leaving the event, Azul presented each attendee with a bottle of wine.