Appistry Honored as CODiE Awards Finalist for "Best Distributed Computing Solution".ST. LOUIS -- Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced that its 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, has been selected as a finalist in the 22nd Annual CODiE Awards competition. Appistry EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor was selected in the highly competitive "Best 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. Solution" category, which recognizes outstanding network-based computing solutions, encompassing technologies such as: P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. ; distributed, utility and 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 dynamic provisioning. "We are very proud to be chosen as a finalist among such respected competition," said Kevin Haar, Appistry chief executive officer. "This achievement further validates Appistry's compelling 'scale-out' 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. approach, which enables enterprises to dramatically simplify the task of deploying and managing highly scalable applications on commodity infrastructure." Each year the CODiE Awards, sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ), recognizes the "best-of-the-best" in the software, digital content, and education technology industries. This year, Appistry EAF was chosen from over 1,000 products by a rigorous judging panel including software and information industry writers, analysts, consultants and subject-matter experts. "The 2007 CODiE Finalists represent real winners, even at this stage of the contest," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "Competition is fiercer than ever and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a major achievement. All the companies on this year's list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition." Appistry EAF allows customers to quickly, easily and cost-effectively deploy large-scale applications across a virtualized "grid" of commodity-grade computers. Appistry EAF creates a "scale without fail" environment that provides scalability, dependability and manageability for the applications that run within it, insulating them from the underlying hardware and its frailties. About Appistry Appistry is the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, which IT and engineering organizations use to quickly and easily deploy applications that are simultaneously deployable, scalable, manageable and dependable. Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, Appistry's flagship product, offers the scalability of grid computing, the broad applicability of application servers and the manageability of virtualization in one complete solution that runs on affordable commodity-grade servers. In doing so, Appistry EAF enables customers to easily deploy and operate applications for "real-time" analytics, high-performance computing, high-volume data processing and 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. . For more information, visit Appistry online at http://www.appistry.com, or call 314-336-5080. |
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