Appistry an American Business Awards Finalist

"Stevies" Recognize Appistry for Innovations

St. Louis, MO, June 4, 2009 – Appistry, an early pioneer in cloud computing, today announced it was named a finalist to the American Business Awards for "Most Innovative Company of the Year in Computer Software & Services Industries." Appistry is one of 10 in the category to receive this honor. The company's cloud computing technology, including its flagship product, CloudIQ Platform, has earned Appistry recognition throughout the business community. Appistry's innovations in application management in public, private and hybrid clouds are helping enterprises realize the full cloud computing benefits of scalability, flexibility and efficiency.

The American Business Awards, or The Stevie Awards, recognize outstanding achievement of organizations and businesses on both a national and international scale. With nine different categories, the ceremony honors a wide variety of accomplishments, ranging from customer service to web-site design. In its seventh year, the Stevie Award is both coveted and admired. All finalists will receive a certificate of recognition for their achievements.

This year's Stevie Award winners will be announced at the 7th annual awards banquet at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Monday, June 22.

"Being named as a finalist in the American Business Awards adds to a growing string of public recognition for our company, our platform and our employees," said Kevin Haar, CEO of Appistry. "We look forward to the ceremony in June and are hopeful we'll bring the Stevie home to St. Louis."

Appistry CloudIQ Platform is the company's fourth-generation cloud application platform, helping enterprises more intelligently deliver applications utilizing public and private clouds. 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.

About Appistry

Cloud computing promises a new level of enterprise competitiveness, and Appistry CloudIQ Platform makes that vision a reality. Appistry CloudIQ Platform enables a new generation of highly scalable, extremely reliable, data-centric applications to be delivered at a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of traditional approaches. Reinventing the enterprise application platform for private, public and hybrid clouds, Appistry is delivering next-generation platform-as-a-service, today. With the most comprehensive platform and the most successful customers, Appistry is the leading provider of enterprise PaaS software and services. Appistry customers include global leaders like FedEx, State Street Bank, and Northrop Grumman, and multiple U.S. Government agencies.

For more information about Appistry, please visit www.appistry.com.

Appistry, CloudIQ, and the Appistry logo are trademarks of Appistry, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

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