Appistry

Company: Appistry, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Entry Submitted By: Zer0 to 5ive
Company Description: Appistry's CloudIQ application platform addresses the complex challenges of delivering and managing a wide variety of enterprise applications and services for both public and private clouds. The company's platform is designed specifically for cloud environments, delivering transparent scalability, application portability, and automated management to new and existing applications.
Nomination Category: Company Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Most Innovative Company of the Year

Nomination Title: Appistry: Pioneering Cloud Computing Advances

Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved since January 1 2008 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

Appistry unlocks the power of next generation cloud computing to organizations
of all sizes and across all industries, offering a more agile and scalable IT
environment than ever thought imaginable. Appistry’s cloud application platform
addresses the complex challenges of building, deploying and managing a wide
variety of applications and services for both public and private cloud
environments.

Since January 1, 2008, Appistry has pioneered the cloud computing space,
introducing a platform that gives companies the power to deliver and manage
cloud computing services more quickly and easily than ever before. Tackling
the “toughest 80%” of cloud computing, Appistry allows companies that are
migrating their heterogeneous applications to cloud-based environments to
leverage a single point of application management across the enterprise. As
such, Appistry is bringing the industry the first cloud application management
product CloudIQ Platform, to allow simple drag-and-drop of resources between
clouds, creating a unified environment for enterprise applications.

Appistry’s experience in the industry has led the management team to realize
that enterprises won't embrace cloud computing until they are able to deal with
the numerous applications they already have. Appistry’s solutions allow the
cloud to expand beyond its current status of being built for single application
startups. In order for enterprises to view cloud as something more than an
experiment, they need an approach for migrating and managing more than one
application. This is the industry issue that Appistry has been successfully
addressing.

The platform was designed from the ground up to help enterprises achieve
success in highly-distributed cloud environments, building on the company's
history with customers such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and
GeoEye.

Appistry CloudIQ Platform provides a run-time application platform that
complements an organization’s existing technology choices and allows businesses
to rapidly create highly scalable, service-oriented applications with minimal
investment and risk. In addition to enabling linear application scalability,
Appistry CloudIQ Platform also simplifies development, reduces project risk,
enhances reliability and ensures applications survive infrastructure failure.

Appistry's cloud computing application platform is at the convergence of grid
computing, virtualization and SOA. Together, these technologies enable a new
world of "real-time" IT applications and infrastructure, which offers great
promise to the enterprise, coupling the scalability benefits of grid computing,
the architectural benefits of SOA, and the operational benefits of
virtualization.

Today, Appistry continues to lead the way with the development of its cloud
application platform. Forming partnerships with some of the leading cloud
computing companies, and pursuing an aggressive speaking circuit that leverages
the mindshare of its senior management team, Appistry is committed to educating
the market on the importance of cloud computing in a rapidly changing business
world. Its solutions offer compelling advantages for business decision makers,
system administrators, and developers. By focusing on core principles of
reducing costs and complexity while increasing application scalability,
reliability and agility, Appistry will continue to look beyond industry
expectations to deliver revolutionary technology—and benefits—to customers.

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Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:

Kevin Haar, CEO, is a software industry executive who, prior to joining
Appistry, spent 17 years at Rational Software, driving the company’s
transformation from a fledgling software startup into an industry powerhouse
with over $800 million in annual revenues. At the time of his departure from
Rational–following the completion its $2.1 billion acquisition by IBM–Kevin
served as its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations with
responsibility for worldwide sales, consulting, training, support, and business
development. Before his tenure at Rational, Kevin held a number of field and
management positions at HP.

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