Brief overview of cloud computing and Appistry's cloud application platform.

1. Appistry’s Cloud Application Platform
CloudCamp Federal
12 November 2008
The Fabric of Business www.appistry.com

2. Cloud Computing is…
“Cloud computing is a model for delivering IT infrastructure,
applications, and data that shifts the emphasis from stand-
alone silos to pooled, shared resources, dynamically
allocated among various tasks and accessed via a network.”
Public Virtual Private Cloud
Cloud
External
Internal
Private Cloud Private Cloud
Enterprise
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3. The Grand Challenge…
Cloud Application Enablement
Legacy application characteristics Cloud application requirements
• Monolithic • Modular, service-oriented
• Predictable load • Unpredictable load
• Static • Dynamic
• Single-platform • Cross-platform
• Isolated • Connected
• Stove-piped • Distributed
• Delivered in months, years • Delivered in days, weeks,
months
Traditional Application Infrastructure Doesn’t Measure Up to the
Requirements of Cloud Applications
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4. Appistry’s Cloud Application Platform
• Abstracts applications
across underlying
infrastructure
• Provides scalability and
reliability at the application
level
• Simplifies and automates
application deployment and
management
• Provides essential cloud
application services via APIs
(state, workload mgmt)
• Compliments VMWare, Xen
deployments
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5. Appistry Powers the Enterprise Cloud
“Fresh, radical and powerful technology
aimed at meeting the needs of highly
demanding business problems.”
• Cool Vendor in Application Platforms and SOA
• Visionary: Application Platform Magic Quadrant
“Vendors such as Appistry are offering
software tools and architecture to enable
firms to build Cloud IT architectures without
the handcrafting that Web giants such as
eBay or Yahoo! resort to.”
Recognized Leader for Innovative Cloud Application Platform
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