Appistry Positioned as a Visionary in Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers

Gartner, Inc. has positioned Appistry, a pioneer in private cloud computing for the enterprise, in the visionaries quadrant of its "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers" report.

ST. LOUIS, October 26, 2009 -- Appistry, a pioneer in private cloud computing for the enterprise, today announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned it in the visionaries quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers" report (Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima; September 24, 2009)

"In my opinion, our positioning in this report highlights the benefits we provide in the cloud computing market," said Kevin Haar, CEO, Appistry. "More importantly, I believe it recognizes the ability of our platform to support large, critical application deployments across a wide range of IT environments."

Appistry and 27 other technology providers were assessed on the degree to which they anticipate and influence prevailing market trends; their attained industry and market presence and reputation; their record of business and technical execution; and the degree to which they have delivered the essential core functionality expected from a competitive product.

Appistry serves a range of customers in the public and private sectors with its enterprise-grade cloud computing software. The company's flagship product, Appistry CloudIQ Platform, simplifies cloud computing for the enterprise, enabling the creation of portable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments within private and hybrid clouds.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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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