Tygart Technology Chooses Appistry CloudIQ Platform

Tygart Leverages Cloud Computing to Help the Intelligence Community Analyze Digital Media and Improve ID Management Success at a Significant Cost Savings

Appistry To Host Free Webinar with Tygart Management, Nov. 19, 2 p.m. EST

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Appistry, a pioneer in private cloud computing for the enterprise, today announced that Tygart Technology has built its MX SERVER application software on Appistry CloudIQ Platform, allowing the company to achieve massive scalability, accelerate time to market, future-proof its product line and realize ease of deployment and operation. Tygart supports the U.S. intelligence community, DoD, DoJ, law enforcement and other governmental agencies by providing innovative solutions for digital media intelligence, particularly in the war on terror. The Tygart MXServer product enables input, storage and management of digital media files specific to individuals who may be a threat to national security. Tygart marketing manager, John Kostak, and senior cloud development engineer, Jeremy Queen, will participate in a free Webinar hosted by Appistry on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST.

"As government agencies move increasingly toward cloud computing, we are pleased to be well ahead of the curve," said John Waugaman, president of Tygart. "Appistry CloudIQ Platform allows us to deliver a very powerful software product, in less time and at less expense than we had imagined. The Appistry-powered MX SERVER can be easily scaled across tens or hundreds of servers in a cloud environment to meet extreme customer requirements, and the efficiency and automation it provides minimizes the adoption cost for our customers."

Today, using Appistry CloudIQ Platform, Tygart has reaped the following benefits:

• Accelerated product development
• Estimation of up to 60x performance improvement in the processing time of large digital repositories including videos and photos
• The ability for customers to deploy customizable clouds, utilizing inexpensive on-demand virtual servers
• Openness of the platform and ease of integrating third party tools

"Tygart's work is a great example of how national security and intelligence gathering can benefit from the power of cloud-based applications," said Sam Charrington, vice president of product management and marketing for Appistry. "Tygart has been able to deliver cloud-ready products that can be deployed in a private datacenter yet still exhibit cloud-like characteristics, allowing their customers to keep up with the explosion in data. And when their customers are ready to move to public or hybrid cloud environments, Tygart will be ready thanks to Appistry CloudIQ Platform."

On Nov. 19, John Kostak and Jeremy Queen will share the company's experiences in utilizing cloud computing in the government intelligence industry, in a webinar hosted by Sam Charrington of Appistry. Kostak and Queen, from Tygart, work in product engineering and development and marketing within advanced IT-digital media, analytics and biometrics technologies. Charrington, as vice president of product management and marketing for Appistry, is responsible for the company's product and brand strategy, is a popular speaker on cloud computing and contributes to the Appistry blog at http://www.appistry.com/blog and his own Cloud Pulse blog at http://cloudpulseblog.com. Registration for the Webinar is limited and is available through the following link https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/677196448

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.

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