[1] Azul Systems was founded by Scott Sellers (now President & CEO), Gil Tene (CTO), and Shyam Pillalamarri.

[5] On April 1, 2020, Azul announced that it had closed a strategic growth equity investment led by London-based Vitruvian Partners and New York-based Lead Edge Capital.

[6] In the agreement, Azul shareholders were expected to receive a total of approximately $340 million in consideration.

It is based on the same HotSpot JVM and JDK code base used by the Oracle and OpenJDK JDKs, with enhancements relating to garbage collection, JIT compilation, and Warmup behaviors, all aimed at producing improved application execution metrics and performance indicators.

Zing utilized and improved on the software technology initially developed for the Vega hardware.

[13] Platform Prime is available for Linux, and requires x86-based hardware powered by Intel or AMD processors.