Case Study: British Telecom achieves demand-driven scalability and major cost savings with Azul Systems' Compute Appliances

BT Chooses New Compute Model from Azul Systems® to Power Demand Driven Infrastructure

BT faced growing datacentre constraints — lack of space, rising operational and power costs, and many under‑utilised servers — while needing to support transaction‑intensive Java and .NET services and move to a more agile, on‑demand ICT model. To address this, BT selected Azul Systems and its Azul Compute Appliances, adopting Azul’s network attached processing to avoid speculative capacity planning and rapidly scale service delivery.

Azul Systems deployed its network attached processing appliances to provide shared compute and memory as a network service, enabling massive throughput and seamless scalability for BT’s transaction‑heavy applications. The solution reduced management complexity, cut power and energy costs, eliminated over‑provisioning and the need to buy new servers for each deployment, and delivered significant cost savings that support BT’s 21CN transformation and faster rollout of richer customer services.

British Telecom