Appistry Announces New Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 3.0 -- First Environment for Building Reliable, Stateful Web Services on Commodity Infrastructure -- at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2005.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Appistry: --Appistry EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor 3.0 Adds Fabric Accessible Memory, Enabling Organizations Building Stateful Service-Oriented Applications to Take Advantage of the Scalability, Reliability and Significant Cost Reductions of Application Fabric Software Appistry, a pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 3.0, the first software to create reliable, stateful environments for Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. running on commodity-grade infrastructure, while providing unparalleled application-level fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , scalability and infrastructure cost reductions. Appistry EAF 3.0 feature additions include Fabric Accessible Memory (FAM FAM 5-FU, adriamycin/doxorubicin, mitomycin C Oncology A chemotherapeutic regimen used with varying degrees of failure for advanced gastric CA. See Stomach cancer. ), queuing and events, giving the product a new dimension of applicability to the development and deployment of stateful services and applications. The release also includes enhancements in the areas of fabric operations and the developer API, as well as support for additional platforms. "Appistry's 'application fabric' technology should be a no-brainer for any company building a real-world application where reliability is not optional," said Christopher Garlich, chief executive officer of Bancorp Services, Inc. "When we looked at the savings that could be realized both in hardware and personnel costs it was an easy decision to integrate their version 3.0 into our operating and disaster recovery platforms. And as a bonus to the savings, the fabric causes our applications to run faster and the new 'fabric memory' in version 3 will help us keep the cost and performance of our databases in check as well." Fabric Accessible Memory, Events and Queuing Bring Stateful Environments to SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Appistry EAF 3.0 represents a significant update to Appistry's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. . New features include: --Fabric Accessible Memory (FAM) -- With version 3.0, Appistry EAF introduces Fabric Accessible Memory (FAM), a virtual, in-memory area for storing dynamic application data. Fabric Accessible Memory is built on top of the application fabric -- every piece of data stored to FAM is located in memory on multiple computers in the fabric -- giving FAM application fabric characteristics such as reliability, availability, scalability and flexibility. --Events -- Appistry EAF 3.0 introduces an eventing eventing Noun Brit, Austral & NZ riding competitions (esp. [three-day events]), usually involving cross-country riding, jumping, and dressage eventing n (HORSERIDING) → framework that allows developers to define events, which may be propagated across the application fabric to subscribed tasks. Events and FAM may be used together to form a "bus," allowing services or application fabric tasks to communicate with one another within the fabric. --Queues -- The new queuing feature in Appistry EAF 3.0 adds an easy-to-use distributed queuing mechanism, allowing developers to define policies establishing the sequencing model of their applications. The queuing functionality is exposed to the developer as a set of APIs enabling advanced queuing, sequencing and event processing applications to be easily constructed. The queuing capability is built atop FAM; additional data structures may likewise be built. New Product Offers Enhanced Deployment and Administration and Additional Platform Support Appistry EAF 3.0 offers a number of operational enhancements. New features in version 3.0 will allow future updates to the application fabric software to be more easily deployed because they no longer require a system image to be created. Application fabrics running Appistry EAF 3.0 are also now "version aware," meaning that the fabric software is able to determine the version installed on workers added to a fabric and automatically update it if it is out of date. Appistry EAF 3.0 can trace application dependencies and can alert administrators should an update request be made that creates the potential for dependency problems. Appistry EAF 3.0 will now support Novell SUSE Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as 9, in addition to platforms previously supported (Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. and Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 2003, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. 3). Appistry has become a Novell partner. "Appistry EAF provides application-level fault tolerance which delivers extraordinary dependability while unlocking significant savings on hardware acquisition as well as on operational and application development costs," said Kevin Haar, Appistry CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "While virtually every enterprise can reap huge benefits from migrating applications to an application fabric environment, our new Appistry EAF 3.0 brings special added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
Demonstration at Booth #1625 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo attendees may visit Appistry at Booth #1625 on the Exhibits Level of the Walt Disney World Dolphin The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios next to Disney's BoardWalk Resort area. It opened in June, 1990 and is joined to its sister hotel, the Walt Disney World Swan (also designed by Graves) Hotel for a full demonstration of Appistry EAF. Availability Appistry EAF 3.0 will be available in a Customer Preview Release in November 2005. The new release will be generally available in the first quarter of 2006. About Appistry Appistry is the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, which allows customers and partners to develop, deploy, and manage service-oriented and transactional applications that are simultaneously dependable, scalable, agile and inexpensive. Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric is Appistry's flagship product. Offering benefits often associated with disparate technologies such as grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal , application servers and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. in one complete solution, Appistry EAF enables customers to achieve dramatic reductions in the cost, time-to-market, and complexity associated with their service-oriented and transactional applications. Appistry EAF is based on Appistry's patent-pending Hive technology. For more information, visit Appistry online at www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111), or 314-336-5080 for calls outside of the United States. About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises, Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees are responsible for more than $35 billion in IT spending for their respective companies, and rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/symposium/us. |
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