Appistry Targets HDFS Market

CLOUDAVE, JUNE 30, 2010

Appistry positions itself to target companies considering HDFS. Appistry made an announcement about some strategic alliances they have built with some of the important players in the Hadoop ecosystem. It is pretty clear that they want to offer an alternative to enterprises not convinced about HDFS.

Appistry Offers Reliability, Choice to Hadoop Developers

EWEEK, JUNE 29, 2010

Appistry announces strategic alliances with Hadoop ecosystem vendors Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga. The company encourages developers to choose Appistry CloudIQ Storage as a robust file system for their enterprise-grade Hadoop deployments.

Hadoop Gets Closer to Being Enterprise Ready

JAVA WORLD, JUNE 29, 2010

Hadoop is making its way toward enterprise-readiness but still needs capabilities for SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance. 

Business in the Clouds

ST. LOUIS BUSINESS JOURNAL, MAY 14, 2010

Worldwide, cloud services revenue topped $56 billion in 2009, up more than 20 percent from about $46 billion in 2008, according to IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. It projects that revenue will top $150 billion by 2013. “It’s one of the biggest shifts to happen since the first phase of the Internet, and it’s extremely important for businesses to take note of,” said Sam Charrington, vice president of marketing at Appistry, a St. Louis-based provider of cloud computing software.

Cloud Computing Puts the Focus Back on the Application

MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, APRIL 15, 2010

"I’m on Appistry's federal board of advisors as well as an independent member on their board of directors because they have a technology that I totally believe in. And it’s vitally important for government entities – be they defense, intelligence, or other – to embrace cloud computing in a big way. For most government agencies that’s going to mean private clouds, as opposed to public clouds, however." -- Bob Flores, former CIA CTO.

The Direction of Cloud Computing Storage and Analysis

DZONE, MARCH 24, 2010

Cloud vendors like Appistry are finding new distributed-file-system approaches to eliminate performance bottlenecks by letting analytics run wherever the data is stored.

Appistry Targets Vibrant Storage Market, Hadoop Users

SILICON ANGLE, MARCH 22, 2010

Appistry, a cloud computing company based out of St. Louis, has announced the beta release of a new product line targeting the vibrant web scale storage market. The offering dubbed CloudIQ Storage, aims to appease the ever growing storage appetite of organizations to deliver web scale storage for a wide range of workloads and use cases.

10 Demystifying Cloud Computing Products

CHANNEL WEB, MARCH 17, 2010

The launch of Appistry CloudIQ Storage gives VARs and systems integrators a scalable, fault-tolerant and affordable storage option that can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with Appistry's CloudIQ Engine to enable Computation Storage, which unifies applications and data by storing data across commodity servers and migrating application processing the machines that contain the relevant data.

Agencies help test cloud-based file storage system

GCN, MARCH 16, 2010

Federal agencies and systems integrators are beta testing a cloud-based file storage system from Appistry that distributes files and requests across multiple machines, allowing servers to be used for both computational purposes and for file storage. The system could help avoid bottlenecks and performance degradation during the analysis, processing and storage of large volumes of data-intensive applications.

Appistry Joins Storage Fray, and Brings Hadoop With It

GIGAOM, MARCH 15, 2010

Appistry today added another element to its cloud-computing application platform, announcing the April availability of CloudIQ Storage. With the release, the St. Louis-based company joins the growing ranks of companies seizing on demand cloud storage solutions that can maintain performance in the face of rapidly growing data volumes. Appistry hopes to distinguish its scale-out storage offering from the competition, however, with two key innovations: (1) an ace-in-the-hole that it calls “computational storage,” and (2) CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition.