{"id":63809,"date":"2024-06-05T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=63809"},"modified":"2024-06-05T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:03:04","slug":"devops-analytics-solution-now-supports-oracle-jdk-and-any-openjdk-based-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/06\/05\/devops-analytics-solution-now-supports-oracle-jdk-and-any-openjdk-based-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"DevOps analytics solution now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/streak-link.com\/B_eJ0-SrK3h5Mjmk8AG-yBWU\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azul.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azul<\/a>, the only company 100% focused on Java, announced that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/streak-link.com\/B_eJ0-eOjod5hx8hMATuOTVV\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azul.com%2Fproducts%2Fintelligence-cloud%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azul Intelligence Cloud<\/a>, Azul\u2019s cloud analytics solution which provides actionable intelligence from production Java runtime data to dramatically boost developer productivity, now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based JVM (Java Virtual Machine) from any vendor or distribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Businesses are under pressure to accelerate application innovation cycles and optimize their development resources, while simultaneously ensuring the security of their applications and customer data. Azul\u2019s Intelligence Cloud consists of two services which address these challenges for Java applications running in production:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7Azul Vulnerability Detection, to eliminate false positives by accurately identifying and prioritizing known security vulnerabilities; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7Code Inventory, to help identify unused and dead code by precisely detailing what custom and third-party code is actually run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe clearly see the benefit that Azul Intelligence Cloud delivers to our customers&nbsp;by&nbsp;helping their DevOps teams save an immense amount of time and increasing their productivity,\u201d said Ed Tybursky, managing partner at Remend, an independent Oracle advisory firm. \u201cThe ability to efficiently triage vulnerable code and&nbsp;identify&nbsp;unused code for removal from telemetry across an entire Java estate, regardless of JDK distribution or vendor, is a crucial capability that enables DevOps teams to effectively focus their time and attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEnterprise IT teams need accurate, unified insights they can put into action to improve efficiency and control costs,\u201d said Jevin Jensen, IDC research vice president, Intelligent CloudOps. \u201cA solution that can reduce false positives found in most vulnerability scanning enables DevOps, SRE and CloudOps teams to focus on the actual Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVEs) that are executed by production applications. By avoiding code paths that are never executed, teams can move faster and reduce remediation costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many organizations are seeking to modernize their applications for a cloud-native AI-powered world but legacy codebases can hold back this innovation and prevent DevOps teams from reaching their full potential. Often teams have added features but not retired old code, making maintenance more difficult and increasing the risk of unexpected behavior or exposure to vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe acquired another firm recently and aren\u2019t familiar with their codebase. It contains millions of lines of code \u2013 reading and understanding that code would take months. With Code Inventory, we identified large portions of unused code, archived it and now spend our time working on the important parts. This has significantly sped up our development cycles,\u201d said an Azul Intelligence Cloud user from a leading fintech trading firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a><a><\/a>For DevOps teams, dealing with Java application deployments that often comprise a heterogeneous mix of JVMs across different Java vendors, platforms and versions becomes increasingly complex. By supporting any JDK distribution including those from Azul, Oracle, Amazon, Eclipse, Microsoft, Red Hat and others, Azul Intelligence Cloud delivers key benefits across an enterprise\u2019s entire Java fleet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Eliminate Vulnerability False Positives:\u00a0<\/strong>Uses information the JVM inherently has when running a Java application to identify vulnerable code that actually runs, generating accurate results unattainable by traditional application security tools. Enables DevOps to prioritize vulnerabilities based on actual risk, saving time while reducing security issue backlogs and improving production security posture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Efficiently Triage New Vulnerabilities:<\/strong>\u00a0Provides continuous detection for Java applications in production so DevOps teams can efficiently triage new critical vulnerabilities during events like Log4j. Saves DevOps time and minimizes disruption so teams can focus on other productive tasks. The Azul Vulnerability Detection Knowledge Base is rapidly and continuously updated with newly published Java-specific vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Code Use Analysis and Unused Code Visibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Gives an aggregate view of when code was run \u2014 down to the method level \u2014 across an enterprise\u2019s Java workloads. Enables DevOps to understand what code is used in production and helps identify unused and dead code for removal (i.e. pinpoints unused classes and libraries). Doing so lowers code maintenance effort and increases developer productivity, freeing up resources for more important business initiatives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Real-time and Historical Analysis, Accelerated by AI:<\/strong>\u00a0Azul Intelligence Cloud retains component and code use history, allowing for focused forensic efforts to determine if vulnerable code was exploited prior to it being known as vulnerable. Azul\u2019s security team uses AI to quickly identify Java-specific CVEs from the National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD) and rapidly update the Azul Vulnerability Detection Knowledge Base with newly published vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No Performance Impact in Production:\u00a0<\/strong>Azul Intelligence Cloud efficiently captures Java runtime data that exists within a JVM when running a Java application, resulting in no performance impact, something not possible using traditional security or profiling tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a><a><\/a>\u201cEver since the Log4J event, we have seen a dramatic rise in \u2018false positives\u2019 as a result of the various tools that organizations have employed to address Java application vulnerabilities,\u201d said James Yang, vice president of sales at Cloud Creek, an Azul channel partner. \u201cCurrently we are on the phone with customers 3 to 4 times a week to prove that these are false positives \u2013 often we have up to 15 people on the phone from both the client side and our team spending anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to address this. How is this productive? It&#8217;s almost like crying wolf.&nbsp; Azul\u2019s Intelligence Cloud solution takes all this pain away, completely removing the false positives and allowing our customers to quickly and effectively remediate the vulnerabilities that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday\u2019s businesses are under relentless pressure to innovate, accelerate time-to-market and fortify application security, all while grappling with resource constraints,\u201d said\u00a0Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO of Azul. \u201cAzul Intelligence Cloud is a game-changer. Using the information already inside JVMs running in production, Intelligence Cloud provides unprecedented precision and the intelligence needed to solve two significant DevOps challenges \u2013 alert fatigue from an intractable vulnerability false positive backlog and technical debt from maintaining unused code. We\u2019re excited to extend these capabilities across all an enterprise\u2019s Java application fleet, regardless of JDK vendor or distribution, to dramatically slash time from unproductive tasks and multiply DevOps productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, announced that\u00a0Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul\u2019s cloud analytics solution which provides actionable intelligence from production Java runtime data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":62114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7440,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-63809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-azul","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}