Appistry EAF 3.5 Wins "Best of Tech-ed 2007" at Top Microsoft Conference.Appistry Application Fabric Software Recognized in Architecture Category for Strategic Importance, Competitive Advantage and Customer Value ST. LOUIS -- Appistry today announced that its application fabric -- Appistry EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor 3.5 -- was named as a winner of the "Best of Tech*Ed Awards 2007" in the Architecture category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro Windows IT Pro (ISSN-1552-3136) is a trade publication and web site owned by Penton Media serving the information needs of IT professionals in various fields including data processing, software development and programming. [R], SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. Magazine[R] and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com. The judges reviewed over 260 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech*Ed in Orlando, Fla. Winners were announced on June 6 at an evening reception at the Peabody Hotel Orlando. "This is the sixth year of this awards program and every year we see a substantial increase in the number and level of entries," said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategic director. "While we had many worthy products, the winners clearly demonstrated their products' strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and the value they provide to customers." The award recognizes the significance of Appistry EAF to architects and developers on the Microsoft platform. Appistry EAF augments the Microsoft .NET See .NET. Framework with robust, grid-like capabilities to allow .NET developers to build highly scalable and reliable applications without the complexity of traditional distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. approaches. "Appistry EAF 3.5 provides an out-of-the-box architecture for creating scalable .NET applications that run on a cluster or grid of Windows-based computers," said Mark Sundt, Appistry .NET Evangelist and 14-year Microsoft veteran. "By providing automated application deployment, application-tier load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , automated fail-over and distributed caching, we make it extremely easy for customers to build and deploy highly scalable and reliable applications." Appistry's .NET customers, such as Clearent and DreamType, achieve true competitive advantage by utilizing an easy to manage, scalable environment for their mission-critical applications: Clearent provides debt and credit card payment processing to independent sales organizations This article or section deals primarily with the English-speaking world and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and agent banks. Using Appistry EAF, Clearent was able to bring its service to market more quickly than with other alternatives. Appistry EAF's predictable execution and automatic compensation for failure ensures the service level demanded by Clearent's customers without the high costs and inflexibility of the "big iron" approaches. DreamType's offering allows marketers to produce highly effective 1-to-1 marketing campaigns for email, print and the Web. To keep up with the demands of its growing customer base, DreamType needed to be able to easily scale their CPU-intensive applications across a potentially large number of servers and increase the application's reliability. Deploying Appistry's application fabric allowed them to quickly and cost-effectively meet these requirements. Additional information about Appistry's work in the .NET community can be found at Mark Sundt's blog at http://www.appistry.com/blogs/marksu. About Appistry 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. , Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, delivers the combined benefits of 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 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. by allowing customers to rapidly create highly scalable service-oriented applications and readily deploy them across a virtualized "grid" of inexpensive computers. As a result, Appistry customers, such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. and GeoEye, are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, dependability and scale demanded by their businesses. For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111). Appistry and the Appistry logo are registered trademarks of Appistry, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. |
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