Data Voice Solutions

BT Group (News - Alert) has reportedly selected Azul Compute Appliances to achieve the massive scalability it needs to support a new B2B gateway for the UK telecom industry.

By utilizing Azul’s technology, BT will provide high quality of service to UK communications providers who use the Equivalence Management Platform (EMP) for interacting with Openreach, the division of BT created as part of telecom deregulation.

BT Wholesale gateway that interfaces with the EMP, as well as other business-critical Java applications, will also be supported by Azul Compute Appliances.

Scott Sellers, chief operating officer and co-founder of Azul Systems, said BT is taking advantage of Azul’s disruptive technology to continue delivering on its commitments under the telecom strategic review.

Sellers said that Azul Compute Appliances will enable BT to respond to workload spikes in real time, so it can provide consistent, fast response times for high volumes of transactions.

Azul Compute Appliances has met BT’s rapidly growing business demands by delivering four times greater throughput and improved response times for its transaction-intensive Java-based applications.

Clive Selley, CIO BT Wholesale explained in a press release that they were urgently searching for a solution that could ensure service levels on a massive scale that they could not achieve with traditional servers.

Azul has enabled BT to achieving consistent throughput beyond their target levels with very little tuning. According to Selley, the company expects to be able to immediately reduce data centre costs for the gateway infrastructure by at least one third, which when combined with additional power, management and cooling savings will deliver even more significant total cost savings over the next three years.

Syed Rizvi, managing director of Azul Systems UK believes BT will now be able to quickly adapt and scale to satisfy its service level agreements even in the face of unpredictable demand.

“The company will not have to make any changes to its applications or existing infrastructure, and we expect the Azul deployment to go live before the end of 2006,” he concluded.

Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service for transaction-intensive applications.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.