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Appistry gives enterprises a path to the cloud


By David Worthington
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March 11, 2009 —  As a growing number of enterprises look to cloud computing, questions on how to migrate and manage applications off-premises arise. Cloud platform software maker Appistry has introduced a new product that it says will handle those tasks at scale.

CloudIQ Manager was announced on Monday as an addition to the company's CloudIQ Platform 4.0.

Users create a service definition for each of their applications by writing XML-based templates that describe how to manage the life cycle of an application, he explained. Service templates are supplied out of the box for common application types, he added.

"People get the impression that cloud computing is for startups and does not scale for enterprises with hundreds of applications or more," said Charrington. "There is a gap in the market for tools to migrate application portfolios to the cloud."

Once an application is managed by CloudIQ, it may be shifted between cloud environments using a drag-and-drop management interface; applications are managed from a single console across all cloud environments.

The application container is infrastructure agnostic and runs everywhere from hypervisors in private clouds to commercial services, including Amazon, GoGrid and Skytap, Charrington said. The only restriction is that applications must run on Linux or Windows, he noted.

CloudIQ Manager's management console exposes management features through a REST (representational state transfer) interface. That way, customers can build integrations of their console and other management systems or even development tools, Charrington said.

CloudIQ Manager can work alone without requiring customers to buy other CloudIQ Platform components. It is priced at US$299 per CPU core for a yearly subscription, and it will also be available bundled with the full platform suite when it is released at the end of April for $1,600 per core.

The CloudIQ Platform includes CloudIQ Engine, a framework for building new cloud applications out of components for high scale and availability, said Charrington. It is the descendent of Appistry's Enterprise Application Fabric 3.5 grid environment.

CloudIQ Engine provides a container that manages the life cycle of existing C, C++, Java and .NET applications in the cloud, said Sam Charrington, vice president of product management and marketing.




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