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By simplifying the development, deployment and management of data- and CPU-intensive applications, Appistry EAF benefits numerous stakeholders within an organization:
- Application architects and developers
- Systems administrators
- Technology executives
- Business executives
Application architects and developers
Application architects and developers are in the business of translating business requirements into technology-based solutions. Traditional application deployment approaches require architects to design to the limitations of the infrastructure. Appistry EAF frees architects from having to trade-off among scalability, dependability, manageability and affordability, thus allowing them to focus on creating maximum business value.
With Appistry EAF, developers are also freed from infrastructure limitations, in particular the need to worry about complicated distributed computing concepts. Instead, developers can write code as if the applications were going to be deployed on a single computer.
Systems administrators
Systems administrators are responsible for deploying and managing applications and their infrastructure, including adding capacity to the infrastructure as the demands on a given application grow. With application fabrics, administrators can treat a network of commodity machines as a virtualized single system, easing deployment and management challenges as all changes to any hardware, software, or applications running within the fabric happen dynamically. Further, application fabric software can detect when new "bare metal" has been added to the fabric's network, automatically installing the appropriate operating system, fabric software and applications.
Technology executives
Technology executives in IT and Engineering are responsible for enabling competitive advantage through technology-related initiatives, while minimizing the cost of doing so. Appistry EAF provides a dependable environment that technology executives can count on to make strategic applications scalable, dependable, manageable and affordable. As a result, technology executives can bring new capabilities and insights to market faster, driving forward the organization's ability to outpace the competition. And because it runs on commodity-grade hardware and industry-standard operating systems, Appistry EAF also minimizes the cost of deploying and scaling these applications.
Another large component of a technology executive's job is to manage the talent within an IT organization. In the past, IT executives were forced to deploy senior development staff to manually build scalability and reliability into application environments. With Appistry EAF, IT executives can rely on the fabric layer to provide these qualities, rather than expensive and hard-to-find development talent.
Business executives
Business executives are concerned with the overall success of the business, which requires the agility to stay ahead of the competition. Appistry EAF supports competitive agility by decoupling strategic applications from the limitations of their physical infrastructure. Confident that their fabric-based applications will keep pace, business executives are freed to imagine new capabilities and drive for new insights, thus improving decision-making, providing better value and service to consumers, operating more efficiently, and, ultimately, staying ahead of the competition.
