In a year that saw an ever-darkening economic cloud, cloud computing emerged as a welcome ray of light. In Appistry’s case, the ray was more like a powerful spotlight.
Earlier this week we announced that we achieved strong overall growth in 2008, led by record revenue (to the tune of a 200% jump over 2007) and new customer growth (which includes industry heavyweights such as GE, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman).
What do we think is driving this growth?
For one, customers are looking to the cloud to reduce costs. We saw demand increase throughout 2008 and expect the cost benefits of cloud computing to continue to drive demand throughout 2009 as the global economy does what it can to regain its footing.
Another reason is speed. Reducing the complexity of building and deploying enterprise applications to the cloud — both private and public clouds — lets customers get to market faster. Old adages are adages for a reason: time really does equal money.
Lastly, it helps to have a great platform. It just so happens that Appistry EAF is exactly that. But we know great can be greater, so in 2008 we made many made improvements to EAF. We launched a Community Edition and expanded support for Spring, Java Enterprise and .NET, among other things.
There is little question that 2009 will be a challenging year (and I realize this is probably a major understatement). However, for those who embrace cloud computing and the benefits it has to offer, the pain stands to be considerably less.
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