Azul Systems has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers around the globe. By joining The Green Grid, Azul will collaborate with other leading companies on technologies, standards, and processes that will lead to greener IT systems.

"Membership in The Green Grid reflects the commitment of Azul and other leading IT organizations to develop and promote energy-efficient technologies and processes that will enable continued progress while minimizing and even reversing damage to our planet," said Stephen DeWitt, president and CEO of Azul Systems. "We believe the power and cooling efficiencies made possible by Azul's multicore technology are an important contribution to this effort, and we look forward to working with other industry leaders to tackle one of the most important challenges of our time."

Azul's multicore chip technology is designed to handle processing-intensive workloads associated with dynamic web-based applications by creating a shared pool of compute and memory resources. The technology yields improved power and cooling performance and more predictable service levels.

Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that delivers compute and memory resources as a shared network service for transaction-intensive applications, such as those built on the Java platform.