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Appistry™ Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF)

Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, Appistry's flagship product, is a software-based environment for running large-scale, time-critical applications on commodity-grade computers, without sacrificing dependability or manageability.

Appistry EAF creates a "scale without fail" environment for you government agency by building scalability, dependability and manageability into the application layer, thus insulating fabric-based applications from the underlying physical infrastructure and its frailties. As a result, fabric-based applications are extremely agile, able to quickly adapt to the changing demands of you agency.

• Scale-out virtualization
• Application-level fault tolerance
• Automated management

Appistry EAF offers in one solution the benefits often associated with disparate technologies such as traditional grid computing, clustered application servers and virtualization:

Scalability: Appistry EAF automatically and transparently distributes work across tens, hundreds or thousands of computers, and ensures that hardware and network resources are used efficiently for maximum scalability.

Dependability: Appistry EAF creates a self-healing application environment by propagating application state information among multiple computers in the fabric. As a result, fabric-based applications can survive inevitable infrastructure failure, without loss of data or interruption of service.

Deployability: Appistry EAF provides a complete set of tools for bringing new and existing applications to market quickly. Appistry customers have re-deployed existing C, Java and .NET applications to production-ready fabric environments in a matter of days.

Manageability: Appistry EAF allows application developers and administrators to view and manage an application fabric as if it were running on a single computer, reducing development and operational complexity. Appistry EAF also dynamically discovers and assimilates new hardware and propagates application updates, increasing application agility.

Affordability: With application-level fault tolerance, Appistry EAF enables enterprises to achieve mainframe-level dependability on low-cost commodity hardware. And by inherently providing scalability and dependability, Appistry EAF saves IT organizations from having to rely on expensive development talent to manually build those important characteristics into application environments.