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Today's IT organization is under increasing pressure to do more with less. Business units demand greater scalability and reliability for existing applications and express a nearly insatiable desire for new services. At the same time, the CFO insists on more efficiency, with slashed capital and operational budgets, and with fewer people.

Public and private compute clouds, with their inherent flexibility, advanced automation, off-the-shelf infrastructure, and potential for extreme scalability, offer a possible solution. Yet infrastructure-focused approaches to cloud computing fail to answer the toughest question for the enterprise...what about the applications?

The Smarter Approach to Cloud Computing

The Appistry CloudIQ Platform makes it easy for enterprises to harness the power and flexibility of cloud computing and virtualized IT infrastructure. Appistry CloudIQ was designed from the ground up to address the complex challenges faced by enterprises seeking to take advantage of cloud computing. Our cloud application platform provides the technology you need to deliver and manage both new and existing applications across the cloud or clouds of your choice.

Appistry CloudIQ Manager

Unified management for existing applications and middleware across public and private clouds

  • Single point of management for multiple applications and services across multiple cloud environments
  • Automated deployment and management of applications without "virtual machine sprawl"
  • Extensible support for existing applications and middleware
  • Application portability across a wide variety of private and public cloud environments
Appistry CloudIQ Engine

Easy-to-use, highly-distributed application container for extreme-scale applications

  • Transparent linear scale-out and up of your code
  • Application-level fault tolerance for enhanced reliability
  • Broad support for existing software components
  • Fully-distributed, fault tolerant memory cache for objects and data
  • Robust workload management policies
Appistry CloudIQ Storage

Highly-scalable and distributed storage for extreme-processing

  • Composed of multiple computers (workers) at one or more data centers
  • Workers may have heterogeneous hardware profiles
  • The cloud system will coordinate all the workers and logically join their attached storage to expose a single, logical data store to the user



Appistry Network Bridge

Connect fabrics between datacenters or connect workers without the use of multicast.


Quickstart List
  • Platform Overview and Architecture – A fabric is a collection of independent computing elements (workers) (dedicated to the fabric) that cooperate to enable the highly dependable, low-cost execution of a wide variety of applications.
  • Release Notes –
  • Installation
    • _Windows Installation – The 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installers will install multiple combinations of the worker services, fabric clients and the software development kit. A fabric address may be chosen during installation and Appistry services can be set to start automatically or manually.

      Installation requires 'administrator' privilege.

    • Linux Installation – Each of the respective Linux OS's All-In-One Install Packages contains worker services, administrative utilities and the software development kit in an RPM. A new fabric address can be specified during installation using an external file that is read by the RPM.

      Installation requires 'root' privilege.

  • CloudIQ Console – The Appistry CloudIQ Console is an administration utility which will allow you visual insight into your fabric. It displays information about usage and your deployed files, and it will also allow you to control your fabric. The CloudIQ Console uses the fabric's Manager API and Storage API to communicate with the fabric – it does not use multicast.
  • Users, Groups and Privileges – Users, groups and privileges are used in conjunction to determine permission to access CloudIQ Platform products and services (both Appistry and user-deployed).
  • FARs – A Fabric Archive (FAR) is a versioned package containing a 3rd-party service, Java archive (JAR), .NET assembly, native code dynamic library (dll/so) or other support files that can be shared between several applications.
  • Fabric Apps – An application definition file identifies several elements that comprise a fabric application. The fabric_pkg utility uses this file to bundle all the application files into one package. Only one version of an application can exist on the fabric at a time.
  • Appistry CloudIQ Storage – Appistry CloudIQ Storage is software that creates a scalable, reliable and highly cost-effective file storage system with no single points of failure, using only commodity servers and networking.
  • Replace HDFS with CloudIQ Storage – Appistry CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition provides plug-in compatibility with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), allowing Hadoop users to easily upgrade to CloudIQ Storage as a replacement for HDFS when enhanced reliability and throughput are key considerations. Because CloudIQ Storage has no single point of failure and no centralized bottleneck, it is more scalable and reliable than HDFS and more suitable for mission-critical deployment.
  • Configuration and Utilities – A list of every administrative tool and configuration file in the fabric, as well as tutorials for common configuration issues.
  • Appistry APIs
    • Manager API – An application programming interface has been constructed to handle administrative operations within the fabric using RESTful HTTP resource calls.
    • Storage API – An application programming interface has been constructed to handle operations within CloudIQ Storage using RESTfull HTTP resources, including listing, getting, putting and deleting files and worker management activities.
    • C Engine API – Appistry has exposed a set of C headers which will allow clients (both inside and outside the fabric) and tasks (inside the fabric) to utilize fabric resources.
    • Java Engine API – Appistry has exposed a set of Java packages, with public classes that will allow clients (both inside and outside the fabric) and tasks (inside the fabric) to utilize fabric resources.
    • .NET Engine API – Appistry has exposed a set of assemblies and namespaces, with public classes that will allow clients (both inside and outside the fabric) and tasks (inside the fabric) to utilize fabric resources.
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