Rapid Addition Partners with Azul Systems to Enhance its Java Virtual Machine

Rapid Addition's Cheetah FIX engine will support Azul's flagship Java Virtual Machine, Zing, to address the growing client demand for increased transaction rates, consistent response times and high sustained throughput.

"Both latency and jitter are significant and expensive obstacles in today's trading environments," says Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul Systems. "The combination of Zing and RA-Cheetah offers a pioneering solution that will give clients better predictability, control, and performance."

Both companies say the venture will provide banks and brokers with a reliable and high performance Java trading engines and that results of the testing have shown how the performance of the Azul Zing JVM can benefit even solutions that have already eliminated garbage collection and have already been tuned and optimized.