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By Anand Parthasarathy
BANGALORE, NOV. 6. Tell a large computer systems manager that you can cut the number of servers being deployed by a factor of at least 10, possibly 20 — and you can be sure to be heard with full attention. More than the purchase price of the hardware, it is the software, and human resource cost that tends to shoot up, year on year. Little wonder therefore that a Silicon Valley (U.S.) startup co-founded by an IIT Madras alumnus and its somewhat startling product offering, is causing quite a bit of excitement in corporates which have hundreds of servers working in the Java and .Net environments. Mountain View (California)-based Azul Systems is just two years old. On Friday, it unveiled here, what it calls the "industry's first "Network Attached Processing solution". Stripped of jargon this means, taking away the core computing functions of computers and directing the bull work of number crunching to a dedicated `compute pool'. This way system managers can drastically reduce their inventories of server-computers, most of which are typically flogged for only a fourth or a fifth of their capacity. Just as the familiar Network Attached Storage (NAS) concept allows optimal use of computer storage resources, the Network Attached Processor rack makes for highly efficient use of existing servers, explains, Azul's co-founder and Vice President for Software Engineering, Shyam Pillalamarri. To make sure the attached processor pool works seamlessly with the main servers, the system uses special "proxy" software and a `pool manager' which converts the entire system into a single Virtual Machine. Starting this month, the Azul hardware sub units each of which consists of 16 numbers of its 24-core processor chip, are being test-run at dozens of corporate networks worldwide. The company hopes to ship production units in the first half of 2005. Meanwhile, the product — key software elements were created by the company's small team of Bangalore-based developers — is causing enough waves in the business for at least two senior executives at Sun Microsystems to throw up long careers and join the Azul management team. And Motorola CEO Ed Zander has said the Azul System "is poised to have a truly dynamic impact on enterprise computing... removing significant inefficiency and cost in managing data centres". While Java and .Net are the key environments where Azul makes the difference, the product has also been geared to work with SAP applications, Mr. Pillalamarri said. Technical information on its new product can be found on its website www.azulsystems.com.
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