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Hyderabad, 24th September 2025 – Tata Power Solaroof, India’s leading rooftop solar provider and part of Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited, has launched a limited-period festive financing scheme aimed at making solar adoption more affordable and accessible for households across India.

Running from September 22, 2025 (Navratri) to December 31, 2025 (New Year), the scheme is available in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. It allows customers to install a Tata Power Solaroof system at their homes with minimal upfront cost and flexible financing.

Key Highlights of the Scheme:

• Easy entry to rooftop solar with a small initial payment

• 100% of the system cost financed through loans

• Flexible EMI options and tenures up to 60 months

• Instant digital loan approval for quick processing

• Complimentary 1-Year Solar Insurance from TATA AIG for residential customers

Tata Power Solaroof has partnered with Ecofy, a leading green financing partner, to eliminate upfront financial barriers and make solar adoption easier for households this festive season.

With over 3.6 GWp of rooftop solar installations and a customer base of approximately 2.5 lakh, Tata Power Solaroof continues to drive India’s clean energy transition. A network of 637 channel partners ensures quality installation and after-sales service nationwide.

This initiative reaffirms Tata Power Solaroof’s commitment to providing sustainable, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions. By choosing rooftop solar, customers enjoy long-term savings on electricity bills and actively contribute to a greener future, supporting India’s Net Zero goals by 2070.

Socomec Launches COUNTIS P new range of Smart AC/DC Energy Meters for Efficient Energy Management

National, September 23, 2025: Socomec, a global leader in energy performance and power management solutions proudly announces the launch of its latest innovation: COUNTIS P, a next-generation range of smart energy meters designed to meet the evolving needs of modern infrastructure. With over three decades of industry expertise, this launch reinforces Socomec’s commitment to innovation, sustainability, and excellence in energy efficiency and digital transformation.

Mr. Meenu Singhal, Regional Managing Director – Greater India, Socomec Innovative Power Solutions, emphasized the significance of the launch, stating, “As the energy consumption becomes increasingly complex across sectors, organizations are under pressure to manage usage more efficiently while ensuring compliance and sustainability. COUNTIS P offers a smarter, simpler way to manage energy through its compact design, AC/DC compatibility, and seamless integration with digital platforms. It empowers businesses to gain real-time insights, improve cost allocation, and drive meaningful progress toward energy efficiency goals”. He stated that this innovation demonstrates Socomec’s ongoing efforts to deliver intelligent, sustainable solutions that support customers in navigating today’s energy challenges while preparing for tomorrow’s opportunities.

The COUNTIS P range delivers precision metering, modular design, and advanced connectivity, including Modbus RTU/TCP protocols. Designed for versatility, COUNTIS P is compatible with both AC and DC systems and operates seamlessly across single-phase and complex three-phase networks. Built to perform in harsh environments, it maintains high accuracy even under extreme temperature conditions. Its plug-and-play QuickConnect installation simplifies deployment, reducing time and complexity for installers and integrators.

When integrated with Socomec’s digital monitoring platforms, COUNTIS P provides real-time energy insights that help customers track consumption, identify inefficiencies, make data-driven decisions, reduce operational costs, and support their sustainability goals. These capabilities make COUNTIS P a future-ready solution for organizations looking to optimize energy use and meet tightening regulatory standards.

In many sectors, managing sub-billing remains a critical challenge. Accurate sub-metering enables fair and transparent rebilling of energy consumption across tenants or business units. COUNTIS P meters are MID-certified, ensuring reliable accuracy and full compliance with regulatory requirements. This makes them an ideal solution for organizations seeking to avoid billing errors and ensure transparency in energy cost allocation. With features like QuickConnect technology, AC/DC compatibility, and MID certification, COUNTIS P is ideal for buildings, industry, infrastructure, and EV charging stations. 

Socomec supports its customers throughout the entire lifecycle — from design to commissioning — ensuring high-performance, compliant, and sustainable electrical installations. As energy consumption becomes a critical issue for businesses, reducing kilowatt-hour usage not only lowers costs but also minimizes environmental impact. In this context, COUNTIS P stands out as a smart, reliable, and efficient tool for modern energy management.

Chennai, 23 September 2025: In line with its deep-rooted safety philosophy and customer-first approach, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) announced a significant enhancement to its acclaimed family mover, the Toyota Rumion. 

Safety Upgraded: 6 Airbags Across Variants

In a proactive step towards elevating passenger safety, TKM has introduced six airbags (front, side, and curtain shield) for every Rumion variant. All variants now provide comprehensive 360-degree safety with dual front airbags, two side airbags, and two curtain shield airbags, ensuring maximum protection for the driver and passengers in various driving scenarios.

Added Assurance: TPMS on Top Grade

Toyota introduced the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) in the top V grade. This advanced feature continuously monitors tyre pressure for enhanced safety, fuel efficiency, and convenience, reinforcing Rumion’s positioning as a technologically advanced MPV for Indian families.

Rumion: A Blend of Style, Space, and Safety

The Toyota Rumion combines youthful design with the practicality of a spacious 7-seater layout. Distinctive touches such as a premium chrome grille, projector headlamps, LED tail lamps, and dual-tone machined alloy wheels make it a stylish choice for modern families. Inside, the Rumion offers a plush dual-tone cabin, flexible 60:40 split 2nd row and reclining 3rd row seats, 2nd & 3rd row AC, and generous luggage space, making it as comfortable as it is versatile.

Keeping customers connected on the go, the Rumion comes with Toyota i-Connect, offering smartwatch compatibility, voice assistant support, remote lock/unlock, climate control, and safety alerts. The 17.78 cm Smartplay Cast infotainment system with wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, steering-mounted controls, and premium Arkamys Surround Sense audio elevate the driving experience further.

Powered by the 1.5L K-Series engine with NeoDrive (Petrol) and E-CNG options, the Rumion delivers the best of both performance and efficiency. Customers enjoy fuel economy of up to 20.51 km/l (MT) for Petrol and 26.11 km/kg for CNG, with smooth transmission choices including 5MT and 6AT with paddle shifters.

Backed by Toyota’s hallmark of quality and trust, the Rumion offers advanced safety features such as Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Hill Hold Assist, ABS with EBD, Brake Assist, ISOFIX child seat mounts, and now six airbags standard across all grades. The vehicle comes with a 3-year/100,000 km warranty, extendable up to 5 years/220,000 km, alongside Toyota’s Express Maintenance and 24×7 roadside assistance.The Toyota Rumion is available at a starting price of INR 10.44 lakhs (ex-showroom)

Tabreed and Johnson Controls Enter Long-Term Agreement for Development and Supply of Next Generation Cooling Technology

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – 22 September 2025: As part of a joint commitment to advance global best practices in district cooling, Tabreed, the world’s leading district cooling company, and Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, have signed a framework agreement to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation innovative cooling technologies. 

Tabreed is working on multiple long-term projects, many of which will be covered by the agreement. The collaboration targets gains in energy efficiency, reliability and total cost of ownership, while supporting regional climate neutrality strategies and corporate ESG priorities. It will focus on deploying next generation centrifugal chillers to enhance system efficiency and reduce climate impact, with performance analytics provided via Johnson Controls’ platforms for real-time optimisation and reduced downtime. 

The agreement was signed during a special ceremony hosted at Tabreed’s Abu Dhabi headquarters, by Tabreed’s Chief Executive Officer, Khalid Al Marzooqi, and Johnson Controls’ Vice President and President EMEA, Richard Lek.

Following the ceremony, Al Marzooqi said: “Our company has entered a new, exciting chapter of unprecedented growth, which is aligned with our long-term strategy. We have multiple projects either in progress or planned for the near future, and this agreement helps both parties by securing supplies of essential equipment for large-scale infrastructure. By pairing Tabreed’s operational excellence with Johnson Controls’ advanced chiller technologies, we will bring tangible benefits to customers and communities alike through unrivalled energy efficiency and reliability.”

Richard Lek added: “This collaboration with Tabreed allows us to demonstrate how proven technologies and data-driven services can raise the performance bar for district cooling – at scale. Together we’ll help better meet the demand for cooling in rapidly growing urbanisations while reducing energy consumption and emissions and improving quality of life.”

The collaboration will be built on two main pillars. Firstly, advanced chiller technology, where Johnson Controls will provide a wide range of large-capacity chillers with variable-speed drives and modular systems for flexible loads, all engineered to reduce energy use and maintenance requirements while optimising space within Tabreed’s district cooling plants. Secondly, end-to-end lifecycle services that will cover design and engineering support, commissioning and retro-commissioning, performance guarantees based on KPIs, upgrades and retrofits, and remote monitoring through network operations centres to extend asset life and reduce overall ownership costs.

The framework aligns with global sustainability goals by prioritising energy-efficient, low-emission technologies, adopting refrigerants with a lower environmental impact, while applying circular-economy and resource-efficiency principles that connect plant-level improvements to wider policy decarbonisation outcomes.

According to the IEA – International Energy Agency, operational energy used in buildings globally represents about 30% of final energy consumption. District cooling, which centralises cooling production and distribution, offers a more sustainable and cost-effective solution than conventional air conditioning as it significantly reduces energy consumption, lowers peak power demand and minimises the environmental impact of cooling.

India, 22 September 2025 :— TOTO India has announced an exciting expansion of its portfolio with the launch of season-inspired basins, faucets and a new water-efficient WC range. Each product reflects TOTO’s philosophy of combining Japanese craftsmanship, advanced technology, and timeless design to make everyday living more beautiful and sustainable.

After introducing the Matte colour edition, the brand now unveils a new seasoned themed basin inspired by the elegance of nature and the four seasons. Featuring sleek, flowing designs, the basins bring a sense of calm to modern interiors. The collection consists of four colours, each representing a season: Forest Green for Spring, Mandarin Orange for Summer, Scarlet Red for Autumn and Ash Bule for Winter. Enhanced with TOTO’s CEFIONTECT glaze, the basins stay cleaner for longer, reducing the effort needed for maintenance while ensuring a consistently fresh look.

TOTO also introduces faucets in Rose Gold and Graphite finishes, adding a striking layer of sophistication to luxury bathrooms. These finishes are the result of meticulous artistry, ensuring both beauty and durability. Perfectly complementing the season-themed basins, the faucets are crafted using PVD technology for long-lasting matte black colour, while sustainable manufacturing processes reuse up to 90% of wastewater, making these them as responsible as they are refined.

Completing the collection is a New WC lineup featuring sleek, fully concealed and stylish models-CW362MUNW1 in square shape, CW592MUNW1 in round shape. Designed with TORNADO FLUSH technology for powerful yet water-saving performance and dual flush options as low as 3.0L, the range offers a balance of efficiency, hygiene, and style. The bowls, available in both square and elongated designs, fit seamlessly into contemporary spaces while reducing water consumption without compromising comfort.

“Today, Indian consumers are looking for bathroom solutions that go beyond functionality. They want products that are stylish, comfortable, and sustainable. With these new launches, we are bringing together design and innovation in a way that makes every bathroom experience more thoughtful and enjoyable”, said Mr. Shiozawa Kazuyuki, Managing Director, TOTO India.

“Gujarat Govt. Signs MoU With Innogress For India’s First Quantum Tech. Park GKQCTP, Tabor Electronics Announces Manufacturing Quantum Devices To Support Up to Million Qubits”

 Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India,20th September 2025:Gujarat is rapidly growing its high-tech ecosystem encompassing semiconductors, electronics, IT, and now quantum technology. The latest addition is the Greater Karnavati Quantum Computing Technology Park (GKQCTP), India’s first dedicated Quantum Technology Park, established through a MoU between the Government of Gujarat and Innogress Ventures during the Viksit Gujarat Summit.

Vision & Investment:

• The GKQCTP aims to build a $50 billion quantum technology ecosystem in Gujarat.

• Initial investment of ₹4,000 crore (approx. $0.50 billion) to develop facilities such as Quantum Materials Processing Center, R&D Centre, Design & Engineering Centre of Excellence, Manufacturing & Fabrication Lines, Cryogenic Cooling Systems, Quantum Data Centre, Test Beds, Simulators, and Skilling Centres.

Key Ecosystem Partners and Initiatives:

• Tabor Electronics: Manufacturing qubits and scaling quantum devices to support up to one million qubits, including superconducting quantum computers.

• S Qube: Supporting India’s National Quantum Mission by supplying quantum components and developing Rydberg atom-based quantum radars and communication devices.

• Hanron (IIT Gandhinagar Incubatee): Developing quantum sensors, cryogenic components, and subsystems.

• Egreen Quanta: Developing patented Quantum Dot Radar and Quantum Battery technologies, supporting Mission ‘Sudarshan Chakra’.

• QuISTechAI: Working on NV Center in Diamond-based quantum radars, sensors, and GPS technologies.

• Quniverse & QCarbon (QQC): Innovators in diamond quantum sensing with the revolutionary “Ultimate Magic Material” Q-Carbon, driving breakthroughs in energy storage, stealth technology, and quantum computing.

• Other notable partners include QNu Labs, TAQBIT Labs, Silicofeller Quantum, Quanfluence, QRDLab, Q-CTRL, OQC, D-Wave, QCi, IQM, nexAtom, among others.

Academic & Research Collaborations:

• IIT Gandhinagar acts as a knowledge and venture partner for GKQCTP.

• IIT Kanpur and IIT Guwahati are key National Quantum Mission collaborators focused on productizing and commercializing research through four Quantum T-Hubs within GKQCTP.

• Support from private universities such as JSS University Noida, Sharda University Greater Noida, and North Carolina State University (USA).

Government Engagement:

• MoU signing attended by senior officials from Gujarat’s Department of Science & Technology and Electronics Mission, including Ms. P. Bharti (IAS), Ms. Neha Kumari (IAS), and others.

• Project supported under Gujarat’s Electronics & IT policies, with strong FDI interest.

Expansion Plans:

• Initial operations started at IIT Gandhinagar and GIFT City, Gandhinagar.

• Expansion planned at Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR), Gujarat.

Bengaluru, 19 September 2025: The Sona Group of Institutions, the 100-year-old premier family business group, today felicitated its students from Sona College of Technology, Salem, for completing Xccelerator 2.0 programme. The programme was conducted in collaboration with Unreal Engine, the most powerful 3-D creation tool, and 3DX by Dassault Systèmes. 

Sona Group of Institutions is known for its strong focus on innovation and applied research. Sona has consistently nurtured industry-ready professionals across engineering, technology, and management. Through initiatives such as the Xccelerator, the group continues to create pathways that align education with industry needs, ensuring its students are equipped with skills relevant to rapidly evolving global demands.

Mr.Rabindra Sah,Chief Technology Officer, Indian Register of Shipping. Mumbai Industry Expert & Mentor, said, “The way technology and industries are evolving is truly remarkable. By identifying real problems and finding the right technological solutions, we are not only elevating the sector but also creating unheard-of outcomes in placements. This progress reflects the commendable work being done and the culture of innovation driving us forward.”

Adding to this, Mr. Thyagu Valliappa, Vice Chairman, Sona Group of Institutions, said, “The success of Xccelerator 1.0 and the remarkable creativity we saw in Xccelerator 2.0 reaffirm Sona’s philosophy of hands-on learning. These projects were not just academic exercises—they showcased how students, when given the right ecosystem, could create solutions that have relevance for industry and society alike.”

Nearly all of the students from the first cohort of Xccelerator 1.0 secured placements in leading companies at higher packages. Building on this foundation, Xccelerator 2.0 introduced a new set of projects that reflected both creativity and technical depth, including an automatic sambar dispenser, Virtual Roller Wheel Boat, an automatic vegetable cutting machine, an ergonomic replantation device, and an AI-powered model for detecting coffee plant diseases.

Through initiatives like the Xccelerator, the Sona Group positions itself at the forefront of industry-academia collaboration, offering a platform where students, researchers, and companies can co-create solutions. The program also underscored the group’s commitment to strengthening India’s innovation ecosystem by producing engineers who are globally competent yet locally relevant.

The Xccelerator initiative, launched in September 2023, was part of Sona’s ongoing effort to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world application. By focusing on project-based learning in advanced digital technologies, the program equipped students to tackle complex challenges with practical, innovative solutions.

Mumbai, September 19th, 2025 – Knight Frank, in its latest report- Asia-Pacific Data Centres 2025, highlights Mumbai’s rise as India’s data centre capital. According to the report, the city leads India’s data-centre landscape accounting for 40% of total national capacity and 44% of live IT capacity. 

In H1 2025, Mumbai’s capacity rose 14.3% to surpass the 4GW milestone, with 591MW operational, 185MW under construction, and 3.2GW in the pipeline. This growth builds on India’s data centre market surpassing 10GW in H2 2024, supported by 1.4GW live and 400MW under construction.

Rapid cloud adoption, increasing data localisation requirements, as well as the growth of local fintech and BFSI firms has been fuelling data-centre demand. Over the past six months, Mumbai recorded 97.6MW of take-up. This has translated to a tight vacancy rate of just 5.4% vs. India’s overall colocation vacancy rate at 12.3%. Demand-side commitments seem resilient with absorption broadly keeping pace with the multi-fold growth in supply over the past years. Also, two-thirds of Mumbai’s capacity under construction at present is already pre-leased. 

Yet, with just three live sites currently capable of supporting hyperscale deployments (>2.5MW) and only one site with available capacity of more than 10MW, there seems to be a short-term supply tightness for big-ticket requirements. Distribution of available live capacity is skewed toward smaller deployments: 10 sites offer <1MW, 5 sites fall in the 1–2MW range, while only 3 sites provide >3MW.

Such fragmented deployments are opening doors for well-capitalized global players and joint ventures to deliver high-capacity facilities in the region that is currently dominated by local players. The 500MW NAV2 campus announced by NTT and another 500MW AI facility by Blackstone-Panchshil Realty are case in point.

Also, operators with large-scale requirements are exploring alternative markets. Hyderabad is positioning itself as a hyperscale-first market, with over 500MW of new data centre capacity currently in the pipeline through two projects. STT GDC India has signed an MoU with the Telangana government to develop a 100MW campus, while NTT has committed INR 10,500 crore (approximately USD 1.25 bn) to establish a 400MW AI-focused data centre campus.

Hyderabad is the second largest data centre market in India with 2.1GW of total capacity, followed by Chennai (1.6GW), New Delhi (712MW) and Bengaluru (307MW).

Shishir Baijal, Chairman and Managing Director, Knight Frank India, said: “Mumbai has firmly established itself as the epicentre of India’s digital infrastructure growth. With over 3GW of capacity in the pipeline and strong policy support for green data centre parks, the city is attracting sustained global investment. As cloud adoption and AI workloads accelerate, Mumbai’s unique strengths, its robust subsea cable connectivity, scalable power infrastructure, proximity to enterprise hubs, and progressive state policies are consolidating its position as India’s data centre capital. While other metros like Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru are gaining traction, none match Mumbai’s scale, speed, and ability to serve as South Asia’s gateway for cloud, AI, and enterprise workloads.”

In the first half of 2025, the APAC region secured nearly 13GW of new project announcements, a 160% increase and more than double the 5GW announced in the same period last year. The funding needed for these projects already exceeds US dolar 180 billion.

Major technology firms are driving much of this investment. Amazon is projected to exceed US$100 billion in capital expenditure for 2025, up from about US dolar 82 billion last year, while Microsoft invested US dolar 55 billion in 2024 and has committed more than US$33 billion this year. Collectively, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Meta have committed over US dolar 160 billion in 2025 alone, reflecting the intensity and scale of current infrastructure development. 

Fred Fitzalan, head of data centres Asia-Pacific, Knight Frank says, “The sheer volume of new projects in the region highlights just how important the region has become in the global digital infrastructure landscape. However, coordinating this rapid growth is a complex challenge, as operators must keep pace with advances in technology and rising energy needs, all while ensuring new facilities are delivered in step with evolving demands.”

Alongside the hyperscalers, GPU-as-a-Service providers are expanding rapidly, seeking multi-megawatt capacity across the region and bringing greater diversity into leasing conversations. Creditworthiness and shortened deployment timelines remain perennial challenges, but innovative guarantee structures are enabling some operators to compete effectively for new contracts.

Fred adds, “What has become clear is the strict requirement for operators to design facilities with capacity that can be flexibly deployed for either Cloud or AI workloads, offering tenants maximum optionality. While this adds cost, it is now a decisive factor in site selection. Locations that combine proximity to parent sites with sufficient power allocations to support long-term runway are winning out, although this remains a significant challenge given national grid constraints and permitting delays in Tier 1 APAC markets.”

Johor established itself as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data centre hub, with aggregate supply nearly doubling over the last 12 months to 5.8GW in Q2 2025, including 2.0GW of new project announcements, backed by strong government support and the rollout of national Data Centre Planning Guidelines.

Take-up: Johor recorded 260.0MW of take-up in the first half of 2025, with social media accounting for 61% and the remainder driven by AI demand. The market is now highly constrained, with a vacancy rate of just 1.1%, as planning becomes more challenging and power shortages coming through.

Tokyo continues to hold its position as a key regional hub with aggregate capacity exceeding 4.2GW, a 2.7% increase on volumes recorded at the end of Q2 2024. Investment activity remains strong, highlighted by Ares completing a US$2.4 billion Japan-focused fund through Ada Infrastructure, while Mitsui & Co. Asset Management’s US$122 million acquisition signals sustained domestic investment appetite.

Take up: Over the past six months, Tokyo recorded 41.1MW of capacity transacted. This is a slowdown from the first half of 2024, when 286.6MW was transacted, due to reduced supply in the market. Tokyo continues to be a tightly constrained market, with colocation vacancy rates at just 7.0%. 

Melbourne is stepping out of Sydney’s shadow, with total supply nearly tripling to 4.7GW as of Q2 2025, as land and power constraints push development south. The city now hosts dedicated cloud regions from all four major US providers: AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, with 95% of colocation take-up driven by AI workloads. Live IT capacity is now 337.1MW, marking a 25.4% year-on-year increase. This growth trajectory is expected to continue, supported by a pipeline of 934.8MW in committed and under construction projects. 

Take-up: In the first half of 2025, Melbourne saw 127.6MW of transacted capacity, with artificial intelligence remaining a primary driver of demand and representing 95% of all colocation take-up.

Seoul’s investor appetite remains strong. LG U+ is set to grow its 87.2MW footprint with a US$441.7 million investment in a new AI-focused data centre. Meanwhile, Macquarie Asset Management has acquired the 40MW Hanam Data Centre for around US$538.4 million. No new capacity has been added to the market since Q3 2024, keeping total supply steady at 1.8GW.

Take-up: In the first half of 2025, Seoul recorded 86.2MW of leasing activity, with 85% of that occurring in the second quarter. Demand was split between enterprise users and public cloud providers, alongside an emergence of Chinese tenants entering the market in a bid to diversify their AI strategies across APAC.

Investment evolution

The funding landscape is evolving, with infrastructure and private equity capital increasingly partnering with operators on developer-led powered shells to achieve faster time-to-power deployment. 

Looking ahead, grid capacity and power availability remain major constraints, with geopolitical considerations shaping project delivery timelines. Despite these challenges, momentum remains strong. Cloud providers in the US and China now often compete for the same capacity, driving up rental values, particularly in North Asia. Additionally, the AI ecosystem continues to expand beyond traditional hyperscale deployments. The task ahead is to synchronise these vast expansions with technology evolution and energy demand, building digital infrastructure that is both flexible and future ready.

India — September 18, 2025 — Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced a breakthrough in cloud deployment at scale with Azul Platform Prime, its high-performance Java platform. A leading global enterprise has deployed hundreds of applications and micro-services across more than 10,000 Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) using Platform Prime’s Optimizer Hub, a unique capability that allows JVMs to collaborate and share performance optimizations. By enabling this fleet-wide intelligence, the customer’s applications – spanning e-commerce to payments to inventory management – start and warm up dramatically faster, scaling has become smoother and compute requirements have significantly reduced, delivering cloud cost savings of more than 20%. 

Another well-known company in the entertainment industry recently deployed Optimizer Hub to reduce CPU core and pod counts for their Java-based critical services by 25%-30%. Optimizer Hub is included with Platform Prime as an optional, customer-managed service that requires no changes to existing Java applications or JVM-based workloads.

Turning the Limits of Traditional JVMs into Superior User Experiences and Measurable Cost Savings

Today’s cloud-native Java applications and JVM-based workloads, often comprising fleets of thousands of compute instances and containers, face inherent challenges in achieving a stringent set of requirements, including:

• Delivering smooth customer experiences where even the slightest unexpected latency or performance deficiency will fall short of service level expectations.
• Leveraging cloud elasticity to autoscale, bringing new capacity online at full performance to efficiently match peaks in demand and optimize carrying capacity.
• Efficiently restarting large fleets of container-based microservices as applications evolve with new features and capabilities. 

Traditional JVMs optimize in isolation and often deliver lower overall code performance and exhibit spiky, unpredictable behavior. To avoid poor customer experience and meet service level expectations, enterprises are forced to over-provision their cloud resources, resulting in spiraling cloud costs. In the 2025 State of Java Survey & Report, 71% of survey respondents say that more than 20% of their cloud compute capacity is unused. By enabling JVMs across an enterprise fleet to collaborate by sending and receiving optimizations and learnings using Optimizer Hub’s centralized services, Platform Prime achieves levels of cloud scale, elasticity, resiliency and cost efficiencies that are unparalleled.

Azul Platform Prime with Optimizer Hub

Azul Platform Prime is a high-performance Java platform that includes Azul Zing, an enhanced build of OpenJDK, that is the world’s fastest, most scalable and most resilient Java runtime. Optimizer Hub is an additional component of Azul Platform Prime, designed to further improve cloud-centric Java application startup, warm-up and runtime performance by offloading optimization tasks from the individual Zing JVMs. Optimizer Hub is ideal for modern applications running in containerized, elastic cloud environments with contemporary DevOps practices. It comprises two services that run in a customer’s environment:

• Cloud Native Compiler provides centralized JIT compilation and caching to deliver cost savings and efficiency. Cloud Native Compiler shifts the heavy work of JIT compilation from individual JVMs to a centralized, scalable service, slashing CPU workloads on each JVM and caching compilation for reuse. The resulting code runs faster, handles more traffic with less CPU, and realizes full speed more quickly and smoothly. By eliminating the overhead that comes when each JVM consumes its own CPU resources to compile the Java workload in isolation, each JVM can be deployed in smaller instances and containers, reducing cloud costs. 

• ReadyNow is a feature in Platform Prime that addresses Java’s warm-up problem by logging and reusing JIT compiler profiling and optimization data between JVM runs. ReadyNow Orchestrator delivers intelligent curation of the ReadyNow optimization profiles to ensure each application and microservice is using the best profile and simplifies operational use of ReadyNow. Whether during retail rushes, gaming traffic spikes, or financial market opens, ReadyNow Orchestrator ensures consistent responsiveness, fewer errors and higher SLA attainment from the first request onward. It also enables faster CI/CD redeployments for smoother fleet rollouts, higher resilience under heavy workloads and faster recovery from infrastructure failures, streamlining DevOps at scale.

“Java powers the backbone of the digital economy, but performance challenges with traditional JDKs have led enterprises to overprovision cloud resources and adopt complex operational practices,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “With the centralized services of Optimizer Hub, Azul Platform Prime has eliminated long-standing tradeoffs of performance and cost by enabling JVMs to learn from each other and collaborate across entire fleets in production, delivering faster, smoother application experiences while driving down cloud costs by 20%+. Optimizer Hub is a must-have for every business running JVM-based, mission-critical workloads in the cloud.”

Palakkad, September 18, 2025: KFON is set to bring high-speed internet services to the Nelliyampathy region in Palakkad. Work on establishing the Nelliyampathy– Kollengode backbone link is progressing rapidly to support this expansion.

KFON is focusing on providing broadband connections to areas with limited internet connectivity. The team is working urgently to complete all essential infrastructure and ensure services are made available to customers as quickly as possible.

In the first phase, KFON internet services will be rolled out at 17 End-of-Service (EOS) centers, including government offices. Subsequently, households, commercial customers, and other institutions will also be able to enjoy KFON’s high-speed internet services.

“This is a significant step by KFON toward realizing Kerala’s digital aspirations. Internet services open up vast opportunities for every individual. KFON’s goal is to ensure high-quality internet at affordable rates for all people across Kerala, without economic, social, or geographic disparities. We are now very close to achieving that goal,” said Dr. Santosh Babu IAS, Managing Director of KFON.