Demystified: Cloud Computing for Application Development Free Appistry Webinar, December 17, 11 A.M. PST

Appistry, a leading provider of cloud application platforms, is hosting the third in a series of webinars on Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. PST entitled, "Unlock the Power of the Cloud for Application Development."

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) December 15, 2008 -- Appistry, a leading provider of cloud application platforms, is hosting the third in a series of webinars on Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. PST entitled, "Unlock the Power of the Cloud for Application Development." Appistry will discuss opportunities and challenges application developers face when deciding to venture into cloud computing utilization. Appistry will provide insight into how developers can:

• integrate cloud environments into the development process to shorten test and deployment times;
• "cloud-enable" applications so they can easily scale in a cloud environment and become more fault-tolerant;
• choose the right cloud deployment model for the application and organization, whether public, private or hybrid.

Appistry and Skytap, two leading providers of cloud computing solutions for enterprise application delivery, will co-present during this Webinar, demonstrating through examples, case studies and best practices discussion how developers can transition existing applications into the cloud more quickly, easily and cost-effectively. All webinar attendees receive a complimentary copy of Appistry's Promise of Cloud Computing for the Enterprise white paper, plus SkyTap's white paper: 10 Reasons to Move Your IT Lab to the Cloud.

The link for webinar registration is available at: http://www.appistry.com/go/webinar/701400000005IFo

The lead speakers at the event will be Guerry Semones, for Appistry and Ian Knox, for Skytap.Semones is a lead product manager for Appistry, an expert on application development for the cloud and blogs at http://www.appistry.com/blogs/guerry. Knox is an expert on cloud computing and virtual lab management and is the director of product management for Skytap and previously group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio.

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.

About Skytap, Inc.

Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions that enable rapid development, testing, and deployment of applications in a 100% on-demand 'virtual data center'. Skytap provides self-service provisioning of virtual environments, a powerful web-based lab management application and support for existing applications to run unchanged in the cloud.

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