Uncover application concurrency. The typical use of the cloud is running multiple instances of the application, like a Web Server to achieve scalability. Zircon offers a different route - most applications have untapped potential of implicit concurrency that can benefit from utilizing of multiple cores, co-located or distributed. zNet technology allows exploiting this concurrency by encapsulating business logic into components wrapped by zNet API and capable of executing seamlessly on co-located or distributed threads. You may chose to deploy your application to a customer to run in a legacy mode, say on a desktop, and then allow compute intensive parts of application (video rendering, image processing, pattern matching, etc) to migrate to a cloud of choice for faster execution. Elastic nature of zNet software supports seamlessly adding and reducing hardware resources, the only affect on the application is variable speed of execution with near linear acceleration per core.

Broker-less and hassle-free is ours. zNet offers out-of-the-box application servers capable of executing any custom component expressed as a library routine. These servers configured on the cloud of your choice, deployment of cloud-enabed application is straightforward: start as many images carrying zNet application servers, copy your library to the storage designated for your account and start your client application, which was adapted to use zNet components. It will automatically find all available servers and start loading them with requests. you may add and reduce number of servers, license fee is on consumption basis and there is nothing to configure, just copy the library, start desired number of server images and your app.

zNet distributed application components onto cores, not application onto clouds, thus by nature it is hardware deployment agnostic. Once your application adapted to zNet components, it will perform without further modifications on a desktop, cluster of your office computer or a cloud. You may access zNet images on Amazon and GoGrid or Zircon will prepare images of its application servers for a cloud provider of your choice.

Zircon has a set of case studies demonstrating near linear acceleration on a range of applications from few to few thousands cores. The backbone for these results is zNet's approach to concurrent programming - we consider application as set of business components exchanging messages and zNet's technology supports and facilitates the split of business logic into such components and then allows to allocate them onto local or distributed cores to achieve the best performance. The technological support for such divide - first code business logic as communicating via events components, and then, independently, decide how to allocate them on threads, contributes to impressive results.