Appistry Positioned in ''Visionaries'' Quadrant in Influential Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant; Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.ST. LOUIS -- Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Appistry in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2Q2006 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. report.(1) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner, "visionaries" are vendors that have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but they can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery. "We believe Gartner's positioning of Appistry in the visionaries quadrant is confirmation of the unique value we provide to our customers: the ability to achieve new levels of capability by taking full advantage of the scalability, dependability and manageability provided by our application fabric software," said Kevin Haar, 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. of Appistry. "We will continue to enable our customers to quickly and effortlessly scale their applications on commodity infrastructure in order to deliver results they need on-time, every time." Vendors were evaluated on their ability to execute, which reflects the staying power and record of execution of vendors in the market, and the completeness of vision, which reflects the vendors ability to understand the market trends, influence them and follow them with agility and consistence con·sis·tence n. Consistency. Noun 1. consistence - a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts consistency . 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 (Appistry EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ) -- enables customers in industries such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , transportation, defense, intelligence, healthcare and telecommunications to more easily and cost-effectively deploy large-scale, time-critical 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 infrastructure 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 large-scale, time-critical applications that are simultaneously deployable, scalable, manageable and dependable. Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF) is Appistry's flagship product. Appistry EAF offers the scalability of grid computing, the broad applicability of application servers and the manageability of 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 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 (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) and high-volume data processing, as well as agile web, 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. and enterprise applications. For more information, visit Appistry online at http://www.appistry.com, or call us at 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111). Appistry and the Appistry logo are trademarks of Appistry, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. About The Magic Quadrant and Disclaimer The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 4, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or fitness for a particular purpose. (1) "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant, 2Q06," Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Michael Barnes, August 4, 2006 |
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